ASME Steel Fin Tube Economizer Boiler Parts For Once - Through Boilers

Steel Boiler Economizer Boiler Spare parts Fin Tube Economizer

 
Summary
 
There are three stages from the feed water in the boiler heated into superheated steam:feed water preheating, evaporation, and superheating. The three stages are finished on three different heating surfaces. The boiler steam and water circuit are composed of the three different heating surfaces as well as their connecting pipes. Boiler economizers are one of them, and it is right the equipment to preheat the feed water. Thus, it is the heating surface with the lowest temperature for boiler working fluid in the boiler steam and water circuit. The working fluid passing through this equipment is monophasic water(non-boiling economizer).
 
Functions
 We can summerize the functions of economizers as below:
1. fuel saving: the economizers are placed at the rear part of boilers. This way can decrease the smoke and gas temperatures, thus to save fuels.
2.improve the working conditions of steam drums: due to economizers, the feed water temperature is increased when entering the steam drum. It reduces the temperature difference between the feed water and steam drum wall as well as steam drum thermal stress, so that it improve the working conditions of steam drums and increase the service life.
3.reduce the boiler manufacturing cost: for the feed water is heated in the boiler economizers. The use of low temperature spare parts as boiler economizers to replace some of high-priced high temperature water wall panels reduces the cost to manufacture boilers.

 
Working principle
 
Boiler economizer is kind of heat exchanger to heat the feed water using the flue gas heat. The flue gas coming from the tube outside is up and down cross-flow scrubbing the tube bundle, passing the heat to the tube wall. The water is flowing from bottom to top, and absorts the heat from the tube wall, and its temperature is getting high. This way not only can countercurrent heat transfer to save metal consumption, but also is good for water/steam to flow and exhaust as well as decreasing corrusion. One more, this way works well for dust cleaning.
 
Types
If according to heating extension of the working fluid, economizers can be divided into non-boiling and boiling types.
Most of medium-presssure boilers use boiling type economizers. This is because the latent heat of vaporization of water in medium-pressure boilers is high, and the heat of the heated water is smal. Thus it is necessary to send some water to be vaporized in boiler economizer so as to prevent unstable combusion in funaces and prevent increased consumption of metal in the heating surfaces as superheaters caused by too low outlet flue gas temperature. In addition, it can help to play the role of economizers.
Superhigh pressure boilers mostly use non-boiling type economizers. This is because when the pressure is higher, the latent heat of vaporization is decreased, while heat of the heated water is getting more, so it is necessary to send some water to be heated in water wall panels so as to prevent the slagging on the heating surfaces of the furnace outlets and the furnace inside caused by too high temperatures in furnaces and of outlet flue gas. So usually superhigh pressure boilers use non-boiling type economizers.
The main factor to consider which type of economizers is boiler's parameters. When the boiler parameters differ, the ratio of heat absorption needed in three stages to heat the working fluid make differences. So the corresponding arrangements of three heating surfaces need to change, too. To large units with high parameters, their evaporative heat absorption is less, while the heat absorption of water by heating, the heat absorption of steam by superheating, the heat absorption by reheating are quite big. Thus, non-boiling type economizers are the main type for superhigh pressure unit boilers.
 
Specifications

 
Quality Control
 
1. Impact test and Strength calculation report with applied materials information.
2. 100%NDT(non-destructive inspection) report of steel plate, tube and electrode
3. X-ray, γ-ray and liquid penetrant test inspection report (welding seam): to ensure the quality of the entire boiler
4. Hydraulic test report: ensure the standard working pressure and safety