Heating Plant Optimization
As natural gas prices increase, improved burner performance is an untapped financial resource for many organizations.
Heating Plant Efficiency.
Maximum heating plant efficiency is achieved by implementing three complimentary technologies:
- Parallel Positioning Control
- Most burners come equipped with fixed position controls, known as jack shaft controls. The system droop associated with jack shaft control can be eliminated by retrofitting the burner with a parallel positioning control system like the Fireye PPC 5000.
- Oxygen Trim Control
- Combustion efficiency is directly related to the amount of oxygen in the combustion process. Too little oxygen results in carbon monoxide and boiler-fouling soot, while too much oxygen raises the stack temperature and lowers combustion efficiency. Oxygen trim control continuously monitors the oxygen content of the flue gas, adjusting the fuel-air ratio for maximum combustion efficiency at every firing rate.
- Digital Capacity Control
- The Direct Digital Control System measures the energy input and the energy output while monitoring the facility load with a feed forward algorithm that projects the capacity required. The digital capacity control system calculates the part-load efficiency of each boiler, then adjusts the firing rate of each boiler to employ the most efficiency capacity first.
