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Air Preheater
at
off Design Condition
Rakesh Kumar
PE- Mechanical
EOC Noida
Importance of APH in TPP
• 20% of Total heat transfer in the boiler by APH .
• Decrease in boiler efficiency due to poor
performance of APH
• 1% decrease in efficiency due to 20 oC rise in flue
gas temperature.
• 1% improvement in boiler efficiency for each 22 oC
rise in the combustion air temperature.
• The total fuel saving due to pre heating combustion
air may be 5 to 10 %.
• Acceleration of combustion permits a smaller
furnace to be used.
Flue gas outlet Temperature
• APH are designed for Acid due point of
flue gas
• Ash in coal can absorb the acid (if any).
• If the ash to sulpher ratio is more than 7:1
then cold end temperature can be kept
below 120 oC.
Factors affecting APH Performance
Main APH
At Design condition
Obsevation
• Both for Main & Mill APH Results are
closer to design data at n=0.3.
• Both the APH Results are over predicting
the actual Heat transfer rate
• The Standard deviation of error for gas
temperature is 0.43 % & for air
temperature is 0.75%
Leakage Drift & its effect on APH
Performance
• Leakage is an unavoidable feature of
Rotary APH
• Leakage drift is increase in leakage over a
period of time due to deterioration of
sealing system.
Effect of leakage & leakage distribution
on Gas out let Temperature
Gas outlet Temp. (Deg C)
140 n=0.3
n=0.4
n=0.5
135
n=0.6
n=0.7
130
10 15 20 25
% air leakage
Input data: Mill APH (RhSTPP Stage I )
Effect of leakage & leakage distribution
on air outlet Temperature
Air outlet Temp. (Deg C)
270 n=0.3
268
n=0.4
266
264 n=0.5
262 n=0.6
260 n=0.7
258
10 12 14 16 18 20
% Air Leakage
57.00
56.00
Heat Transfer (MW)
55.00
n=0.3
54.00 n=0.5
n=0.7
53.00
52.00
51.00
50.00
6 8 10 12 14 16
% Air Leakage
303
302
tci=27
Air O/L Temp. (Deg C)
301
tci=32
300
tci=37
299
tci=42
298
297
296
295
294
9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19
% Air Leakage
142
140
tci=27
138 tci=32
Gas O/L Temp. (Deg C)
136 tci=37
134
tci=42
132
130
128
126
124
9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19
% Air Leakage
280
Outlet Temp. (Deg. C)
260
240 Gas
220
200 Air
180
160
140
120
25 30 35 40 45 50
Air inlet Tem p. ( Deg. C)
60
Heat Tr. Rate ( MW) & Effectiveness
50
40
Q
Ef f ect .
30
20
10
0
25 30 35 40 45 50