BPM3.0. Fossil-Fired Boilers
- USDOE, Pittsburgh Energy Technology Center, PA (United States)
The BOILER PERFORMANCE MODEL (BPM3.0) is a set of programs for predicting the heat transfer performance of fossil-fired utility boilers. The programs can model a wide variety of boiler designs, provide boiler performance estimates for coal, oil or gaseous fuels, determine the influence of slagging and fouling characteristics on boiler performance, and calculate performance factors for tradeoff analyses comparing boilers and fuels. Given a set of target operating conditions, the programs can estimate control settings, gas and steam operating profiles through the boiler, overall boiler efficiency, and fuel consumption. The programs are broken into three categories: data, calculation, and reports with a central processor program acting as the link allowing the user to access any of the data or calculation programs and easily move between programs. The calculations are divided among the following five programs: heat duty calculation, combustion calculation, furnace performance calculation, convection pass performance calculation, and air heater performance calculation. The programs can model subcritical or supercritical boilers, most configurations of convective passes including boilers that achieve final reheat steam temperature control by split back pass, boilers with as many as two reheat circuits and/or multiple attemperator stations in series, and boilers with or without economizers and/or air heaters. Either regenerative or tubular air heaters are supported. For wall-fired or tangentially-fired furnaces, the furnace performance program predicts the temperature of the flue gases leaving the furnace. It accounts for variations in excess air, gas recirculation, burner tilt, wall temperature, and wall cleanliness. For boilers having radiant panels or platens above the furnace, the convective pass program uses the results of the combustion chamber calculation to estimate the gas temperature entering the convective pass.
- Research Organization:
- USDOE Pittsburgh Energy Technology Center (PETC), PA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Pittsburgh Energy Technology Center, PA (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC22-89PC88400
- OSTI ID:
- 139395
- Report Number(s):
- ESTSC-000218IBMPC01
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: DN: The BPM3.0 source is not available.; PBD: 1 Mar 1992
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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02 PETROLEUM
03 NATURAL GAS
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