General info
About Biomass boilers
Biofuels offer challenges in order to reach high efficiency and availability. Biofuel normally tends to create gas-side fouling in all parts of the boiler.
About cleaning
Benefits of our soot cleaning systems for Biomass boilers
Reduced steam consumption for steam sootblowing. Saved sootblower steam is used for increasing heat or electricity production.
Lower fuel consumption. Cleaner tubes mean increased heat transfer and efficiency.
Lower and more stable differential pressure. Infrasound cleaning reaches areas that are not accessible to conventional soot cleaning systems. This means higher availability of the boiler and lower load on ID/FD fans.
Fewer and shorter outages for manual cleaning. With improved cleaning effect you can obtain higher availability and fewer man-hours spent.
Increased lifetime of heat exchangers. By reducing or eliminating steam sootblowing or shot cleaning, the lifetime of heat exchangers is prolonged. Infrasound cleaning is a non-abrasive cleaning method that does not wear on heat exchange surfaces or catalyst elements and does not contribute to corrosion or erosion. Using our optimized steam sootblowing also reduces wear since steam is supplied only half the time.
References on Biomass boilers
Moelven Bioenergi, Norway
At Moelven Langmoen, a smoke tube boiler is fuelled using byproducts from production to generate extra electricity. The preexisting air soot-blowing system could not preventatively clean the tube bundles, which caused unstable flue gas temperature and required regular maintenance and additional stops for manual cleaning.
Kraftvärmeverket Eskilstuna, Sweden
Before the installation, the primary superheater had large deposits that built up between the tubes. In the duct after the economizer, there was a 200 mm thick layer of dust.
On-demand Webinar: Improved sustainability strategies for the energy sector
The IPCC report from August 2021 and the results from COP26, making it clear that the energy-producing industry needs to focus even more on reaching its suitability goals. We have to look for new innovative ways not yet pursued.Â
Sandviksverket, Växjö, Sweden
A case study and report from our Infrasound cleaning installation at Sandviksverket, Växjö, Sweden. The installation of the Infrasound Cleaner leads to a 50% reduction of steam sootblowing in the economiser and air preheater, and full elimination of sootblowing in the catalyst.
Content related to Biomass boilers
Infrasound soot cleaning for Air preheater
A free downloadable white paper focusing on Infrasound soot cleaning for Air preheater
Challenges for Biofuel boilers
A free downloadable white paper focusing on challenges for biofuel boilers and how to handle them with soot blowing
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