Boilers

Author(s): Alexander Spivak, Ashok Kumar and Matthew Franchetti

Pp: 70-80 (11)

* (Excluding Mailing and Handling)

Abstract

There are number of different sustainable ways to reduce the cost of boiler use with good paybacks. Methods of boiler cost reduction are presented in this chapter. The key concept of this chapter is that cost of boiler is significantly less than cost of operation of the boiler.

Keywords: Boilers, boiler maintenance, boiler efficiency, boiler blowdown, boiler economizer, boiler heat loss, fire tube boiler, water tube boiler, longitudinal drum boiler, cross drum boiler, bent tube boiler, stirling boiler, packaged boiler, fluidized bed combustion boiler, atmospheric fluidized bed combustion boiler, pressurized fluidized bed combustion boiler, circulating fluidized bed combustion boiler, stoker-fired boiler, spreader stocker boiler, chain grate stocker boiler, traveling grate stocker boiler, pulverized fuel boiler, waste heat boiler, tubeless boiler, condensing boiler.