Increasing steam boiler efficiency from stack inside heat recovery by heat exchanger economizer technology and maintenance

Abstract

The objectives of this study is to increase efficiency of steam boiler 2.5 ton per hour which used liquid petroleum gas LPG as fuel. bringing heat recovery inside boiler chimney stack to preheat feed water with technology heat Exchanger Economize. Taking the economizer with its pipe length of 1,000 mm and 62 mm diameter for 64 pipe is a cross flow with staggered tube to increase water temperature before entering the boiler pass to deaerator The study is carried out to compare the differences and savings of the feed water temperature, steam boiler efficiency, and fuel consumption between having the economizer installed and uninstalled. reference to study The result after installed the heat exchanger economizer the feed water is passed into steam boiler deaerator higher temperature from 38.30°C to 67.20°C which leads to increase efficiency of steam boiler from 81.59 % to 85.65 % meaning that the fuel consumption of steam boiler will be reduced 4.97 %