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Boilers. Combustion systems, water/steam and air/flue gas circuits

Authors: Markus HAIDER, Philippe SEGUIN

Publication date: October 10, 2012, Review date: August 30, 2023 | Lire en français

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    4. Air/flue gas circuits

    This section describes the design and sizing principles for a boiler's air and flue gas circuits, and their main components (heat exchangers, fans, etc.).

    4.1 Nature of circuits

    Atmospheric air, used for combustion in the furnace, has the disadvantage of containing only 20% oxygen, forcing four times more nitrogen into the system as ballast than the oxygen required for combustion. In addition, this atmospheric air contains water vapour. The heat contained in the fumes produced by combustion is partially captured in the furnace by the screen tubes and, downstream of the furnace, in exchangers with a variety of functions: superheaters, re-superheaters or evaporators and economizers (figure

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