Design considerations for sludge fired fluidized bed incinerator-cum-boiler
- Thermax Ltd., Pune (India). Research and Development Centre
Thermal Limited, a major player in the field of Fluidized Bed Boilers in India, has supplied on a turnkey basis, three boilers each of 22.5 tons per hour capacity as a part of Cogeneration system for PT. South Pacific Viscose, Indonesia. The plant generates huge volumes of sludge from its effluent Treatment Plant (ETP). The sludge produced from the ETP has a moisture content of about 98%, which is subsequently reduced to about 78% using a decanter before feeding the sludge into the boiler. The waste sludge has a negative heating value ({minus}150 kcal/kg on NCV basis) and required coal as support fuel for burning. The plant`s requirement was to incinerate the entire sludge generated in the plant, which meant that nearly 50% of the fuel fed to the boiler consisted of the waste sludge. Additional requirements were to burn coal and oil as back-up fuels. This paper deals with the challenges encountered and various design features provided in the configuration of the incinerator-cum-boiler including conveying, feeding and spreading arrangement of the waste sludge for effective incineration in addition to burning coal and oil. Also included in the paper is a brief description of the automatic control logics for combustion control and bed temperature control.
- OSTI ID:
- 355845
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-9705116-; ISBN 0-7918-1557-9; TRN: IM9931%%366
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 14. international conference on fluidized bed combustion, Vancouver (Canada), 11-16 May 1997; Other Information: PBD: 1997; Related Information: Is Part Of Proceedings of the 14. international conference on fluidized bed combustion: Volume 1; Preto, F.D.S. [ed.] [Canada Centre for Mineral and Energy Technology, Ottawa, Ontario (Canada). Energy Technology Centre]; PB: 666 p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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