The slugging for the circulating fluidized bed boiler means that the bubbles in the feed layer converge and grow. When the diameter of the bubbles grows close to the cross section of the bed, the feed layer is divided into several sections to be particle layers with intervals of bubble sections. The particle layers are pushed by bubbles to move upwards to a certain height and then they burst into a large number of small particles that are thrown out of the bed and carried away by bubbles, while the large particles fall down like rain.
Boiler produces heat via fuel combustion, so the burner is one of the important parts of boiler. And the air supply system is also an important component of burner. Whether the burner works well largely depends on its air supply system.
Coal is one of the main fuels used by boilers, especially the coal-fired boiler. In order to reduce the production costs, we need to know whether the coal-fired boiler saves coal in operation.
From the perspective of atomization mode, there are three kinds of burner used by boiler that are rotating cup atomization burner, pressure atomization burner and medium atomization burner.
Soot on the heating surfaces. Even a thin layer of soot will reduce the boiler efficiency. Not the right fuel for the burner. For instance, diesel oil to a rotary cup burner wouldn't do. Too low feed water temperature.
The characteristics of dust collector of coal-fired boiler:
1) Separating the particulate matters. The dust collector of coal-fired boiler can effectively separate the big particulate matters with ignition conditions, so as to reduce the obstruction of dust removal system and improve efficiency.
2) Reducing dust. The dust collector of coal-fired boiler can prevent the dust-contained gas from washing the bag to lower the dust concentration of dust-contained gas and extend the service life of filtering bag and pulse magnetic valve.
3) Adopting materials with high quality. The dust collector of coal-fired boiler adopts high-temperature resistant materials that can extend the service life of dust collector.
4) Adopting elastic piston ring. The mouth of filtering bag adopts elastic piston ring to ensure the leakproofness, which is firm and reliable.
The causes of coal erosion as distinct from all the other types of erosion are many but from a theoretical point of view are simply high velocity particles impacting and rubbing along the surface of the tubes.
The boiler designer minimises this by providing a volume in the furnace and a direction of travel of the coal such that it is burned before it can touch the tubes. This can be defeated by increasing the velocity reducing the combustibility or increasing the mass flow. All of these parameters occur if you reduce the calorific value of the fuel or overload the boiler. If you had no erosion before changing your fuel that is the cause. If you have never had design fuel you dont know if it would have eroded anyway. If it would the cause will be a different reason such as arodynamic flows and aiming of the burner or size of the tartget fireball centre. This is a serious problem and should be dealt with by an experienced expert.
Few parameters critical to health of the Boiler are
(4)Heat rate of the Boiler. This is a composite index of many performance indicators. Most of them will appear below.
(5)Unburnt fuel in flue gas and at boiler bottom .
(6)Flue gas furnace exit temperature.
(7)Boiler tube metal temperatures.
(8)Oxygen in flue gas.
(9)Imbalances in flue gas temperature over a cross section.
(10)Spray water consumption in Super heater and Reheater.
(11)Heat radiation from insulation.
The above all affects the performance of the boiler.