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INTRODUCTION OBJECTIVE CIRCUIT DIAGRAM OPERATION/WORKING PRINCIPLE CALCULATIONS ADVANTAGES DISADVANTAGES APPLICATIONS REFERENCES
INTRODUCTION
A Regenerative air preheater is a type of air preheater used in thermal power
plants to preheat the steam generator's combustion air with the hot flue gas from the steam generator.
The types of Regenerative Air Preheaters are
OBJECTIVE
Mainly there are two types of Air Preheaters
1. Recuperative Air Preheater 2. Regenerative Air Preheater
regenerative air pre heater is more, when compared to the recuperative air pre heater.
It is to say that the Trisector type of Regenerative air pre heater is more
Primary air
Secondary air
Burner
Air preheater
Electric precipitator
Flue gas
WORKING PRINCIPLE
Air Preheater is a device which is designed to heat the air before the
combustion process.
The purpose of Air Preheater is to recover the heat from the flue gases
which are obtained from the boiler thus increases the thermal
efficiency of the boiler.
Due to the discontinuous action taking place in the air pre heater, it is
Primary Air
Secondary Air
pulverized coal, which is then forced into the furnace with the help of PA fan, from the gravimetric coal feeder.
Secondary Air (SA) is used to supply sufficient oxygen for
complete combustion of fuel and this is done with the help of Forced Draft (FD)fan.
Primary Air occupies 1/6th part of the Air Preheater. Flue gases occupies 1/2nd part of the Air Preheater. Secondary Air occupies 1/3rd part of the Air Preheater.
1400 c 180o c
CALCULATIONS
1)
2)
3)
[(Fraction of primary air x Inlet air temperature of primary air sector) + = (Fraction of secondary air x Inlet air temperature of secondary air sector)]
ADVANTAGES
Trisector Air Preheater provides both Primary and
the Flue Gas path, complete drying up of coal particles takes place.
It has quick response with variation of loads.
DISADVANTAGES
Leakages are more, but this can be avoided up to some
APPLICATIONS
It is used where in waste heat recovery is possible for
REFERENCES
Material provided by KTPS.
Thermal Engineering By R.K.Rajput, 6th Edition,