Tutorial Steam Generation
Tutorial Steam Generation
Tutorial Steam Generation
Q1
An essential oil manufacturing plant has a 2.5 TPH (F & A 100 C) packaged firetube boiler and operates at 10 bar
g. The feedwater temperature is 68 °C. The boiler is operated at 80% of the maximum rated capacity. A newly
recruited process engineer was asked to find the effectiveness in current blow down method. She found the
following information after a detailed study on the current practice.
Table Q1: volume of boiler Water Blow Liter/minute at various pressure and valve size
Q2