What is a Boiler and How does It Work?
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In this video, we are going to discover what an industrial boiler is, and how it works.
But first, let us consider the term heat. Heat is vital in everyone’s day to day lives. Whether it be the heat to warm up our surroundings, or heat to be able to cook food, we all use it to some extent in our day to day activities.
Water and steam are great heat carriers and are not damaging to our environment. The boiling point of water at atmospheric pressure is 100°C or 212°F.
By pressurizing the boiling system by giving it an airtight seal, we can actually increase the boiling point.
This is how pressure cookers work. An airtight vessel to increase the pressure to increase the boiling point. This makes the food cook in a much shorter time than if an open saucepan were to be used.
So how does this compare with an industrial boiler?
Well, for a start, industrial boilers can cope with pressures much higher than a pressure cooker.
Industrial boilers are often made by welding together thick steel plates, allowing extremely high pressures to be made.
It has to be made incredibly strong to cope with the high pressure, as failure to do so will result in forces close to an exploding bomb!
The function of a boiler is to either produce hot water or steam. Hot water boilers heat water for the purpose of domestic or commercial heating and hot water supply.
Steam boilers generate steam in order to power turbines for power generation and various other industrial heating applications.
To visualize the effects of steam generation using a boiler, think of the steam powering a turbine.
When the steam passes through the blades of a turbine, the force turns the blades and accelerates the turbine.
Steam contains an enormous amount of energy, so it makes the turbine quite efficient and, depending on the fuel used to boil the water, quite energy-efficient too.
There are different types of boilers for all sorts of different applications.
We are going to cover a couple of the different types, including how each of the methods is able to generate heat, so you can familiarise yourself, and be able to correctly identify them.
Firstly, fire-tube boilers. The typical make up of this type of boiler is a furnace, a water tank acting as a boiler and a smokestack.
There are tubes running through the water tank carrying the heat from the furnace, and the smokestack vents the heat and gases caused by the heating effect so that the pressure does not continue to rise above the intended level.
So, the fuel is burned inside the furnace. The tubes transfer the heat of the furnace through the water in the tank. Once it is heated, the steam generated is moved along downstream.
Fire-tube boilers tend to be the cheapest type of boiler to produce, as they have a fairly simple construction but are typically limited for low to medium pressure applications due to the thickness of the outer shell containing the water.
Now that we have covered the fire-tube boiler, let’s have a look at a water-tube boiler.
The design is fairly similar to a fire-tube boiler, but instead of the furnace heating fire tubes to heat water in a tank, the furnace heats water tubes inside the furnace. In the same way, a fuel source is burned in the furnace, causing the water tubes inside to heat up.
Once again, when the water is boiled, steam is generated and moved downstream.
A water-tube boiler is more thermally efficient than a fire-tube boiler, but they are more complex to construct and the quality of the water can be a limiting factor. The water may need filtering to operate most effectively.
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I work on boilers for a living, and while you generally have mechanics right (with the exception of the water tube boilers also having a mud drum and steam drum), fire tube boilers are also very common for high pressure steam systems (high pressure steam is 15psi and higher, and I’ve typically seen them run at about 100# of steam).
Lucas, thank you for your insights. It is always great to get feedback from those most experienced in the industry. Our lessons are intended for automation engineers getting started in the industry and in order to spark interest in those considering or curious about a career in automation. We focus on the critical aspects of understanding the concepts of automation without delving too deeply into the process or equipment. I think our subscribers will find the additional information that you provided very helpful. Keep watching!
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Boilers need to be isolated by using an RP Backflow preventer at the water meter. This will ensure that the high pressure and use of corrosion inhibitors will not back pressure into the public potable water system . Thanks for the video!
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I like the explanation I am interested in knowing how to calculate boiler efficiency?
The simple answer is [BTU 's OUT / BTU's IN] x 100%. That may seem easy, but it will require flow, pressure and temperature sensors to measure the quantities that go into determining the energy into and out of the boiler. In more detail: efficiency = [(lbs/hr Steam out x Enthalpy of steam in BTU/lb steam at operating pressure and temperarture) / (natural gas flow in SCFH x BTU/SCF natural gas at flowing pressure)] x 100%.
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We are using coal fire tube boilers @ work for steam generation for process . Would you kindly make a video on the mobrey switches and pressure sensors attached to the boilers . Thank you
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There are different types of pressure sensors. The mobrey switches are magnetic level switches are one of the types which satisfy boiler code requirements. If your drum water level gets too low and is allowed to remain that low the excess heat would cause a loss of containment and catastrophic failure, so instruments such as the redundant level switches are there to provide a signal that the burner management system can use to bring the boiler to a safe state.
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Informative
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It is automation and heating up which means use of electricity at extreme level because many industries function in this manner and therefore it is needed.
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Can you do a video about marine automation ( ship/vessel/ boat) etc
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I always wanted to know how close loop steam turbine system works not all of it, but the part where the turbine is connected to the generator, which is out side or inside(i'm not sure) of the steam pipe loop. If the generator is inside the close loop system, when the steam turn back into water, it will get into the generator and you know what will happen. But if the generator is outside the steam pipe loop. The steam will leak out where the steam turbine and the generator are connected!? That means shortage of water in the water tank and will need refill over and over again.
I raise this question coz I watch about steam turbine long ago and what I learn from it, if I'm not mistaken was that the steam that runs the turbine is cooled down and condensed back into water and is let back in the water tank! Thank you
Good job, it's impressive. Can you provide video training on how boiler combustion/flue gas analysis is performed using handheld gas/combustion analyzer?
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Excellent video.
How is steam actually used for heating something in a closed tank for example? In the example shown, wouldn't adding steam to the mashing process increase water content in the product?
Aashish Bharat you can use a heat exchanger in the closed tank that way the two mediums are separated and the steam is not condensing in the tank increasing water content to the medium being heated.
m15cell gave one excellent way steam is used to heat a closed tank -- heat exchanger coil submerged in the liquid. This is efficient, but for a brewery or other food plant, this requires cleaning of the items inside the tank. Another way is to heat a jacket around the tank and mix the contents of the tank so that there is good heat conduction from the jacket to the liquid. A third way is direct injection of steam into the tank, which is often used especially when it is desirable to displace all of the air out of the tank (oxygen affects the taste of beer and certain other food products and they are being manufactured). And yes, the condensing steam will add to the water content of the product, but that can be factored into the overall recipe.
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I just learned about steam boiler in NIOSH class today. But I didn't understand until I found this video.
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