Effectiveness analysis of Maikuben brown coal combustion in the heating boiler “Kamkor-300”

Abstract

Abstract This research presents the results of studying the efficiency of Maikuben brown coal combustion in low-power heating boilers using the case of the Kamkor-300 boiler. Improving the combustion efficiency of low-grade fuels is directly related to fuel economy and the decrease of toxic emissions into the atmosphere. The research results show the possibility of adjusting the boiler according to the “fuel-air” ratio in the furnace volume, without violation of its general heat exchange structure and changing the heat-transfer operation in the device. In the research the adjustment of the operation of a long-burning boiler with an upper air supply in order to increase the time of combustion gases dwell in the boiler furnace volume drum is proposed. It is also possible to reduce the excess air coefficient to 0.55 and to operate the boiler under conditions of oxygen deficiency. Under such conditions, in the presented boiler, additional synthesis gases are released during the combustion of low-grade coals, in particular of coal rank “B”, to obtain an additional thermal effect. The resulting thermal effect leads to an increase of the boiler efficiency and its operational and economic indicators.