Johan Holmér’s Amazing Recap from BLRBAC 2023
In October, Johan Holmer (Sales resp. South America) and Andreas Aspell (sales resp. North America) participated in the Black Liquor Recovery Boiler Advisory Committee (BLRBAC) and held a presentation about the current issues of steam sootblowing. There is a clear issue in the industry, half the time and steam for sootblowing is wasted. This has become the mantra of Heat Management’s goal to making our solution to the problem “industry-standard”. Availability on a whole new level. Recovery boilers are the very heart of pulp and paper mills. Johan explains how wasting its resources is an old way of doing things, we are stuck in our old ways of operating the recovery boiler, which prevents us from streamlining the production and lowering our emissions. 90% of the cleaning effect happens on the first stroke of the lance, therefore it does not make sense to blow as much steam on the 10% that remains. This is where the brilliant fouling management [...]