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Blowdown Economizer Calculation

Surface boiler blowdown is required to prevent issues like foaming and maintain proper dissolved solids levels in the boiler. For a 10,000 pound per hour steam boiler operating at 125 pounds per square inch gauge, the dissolved solids level must be kept below 2,500 parts per million. Given the feedwater has 250 parts per million dissolved solids, the required blowdown rate is over 1,111 pounds per hour or about 2 gallons per minute. Without heat recovery from blowdown, the annual costs for a boiler of this size are over $33,000 due to lost steam, heat, and water. A blowdown heat recovery system can recover about 95% of the lost heat and significantly reduce annual costs, saving over

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Blowdown Economizer Calculation

Surface boiler blowdown is required to prevent issues like foaming and maintain proper dissolved solids levels in the boiler. For a 10,000 pound per hour steam boiler operating at 125 pounds per square inch gauge, the dissolved solids level must be kept below 2,500 parts per million. Given the feedwater has 250 parts per million dissolved solids, the required blowdown rate is over 1,111 pounds per hour or about 2 gallons per minute. Without heat recovery from blowdown, the annual costs for a boiler of this size are over $33,000 due to lost steam, heat, and water. A blowdown heat recovery system can recover about 95% of the lost heat and significantly reduce annual costs, saving over

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Blowdown Economizer Calculation

Surface boiler blowdown is required to prevent foaming and priming because the blowdown maintains the proper amount of dissolved solids in the boiler. Surface blowdown is necessary but an energy hog. For example: a 10,000 #/Hr steam boiler operating at 125 psig requires a TDS level of 2,500 PPM or less. Since the feedwater TDS level is 250 PPM, the surface blowdown rate needs to be 1,111 #/Hr or just over 2 GPM. Here are the costs associated with the requirement of blowing the boiler down.

167 #/Hr steam vented

given:
steam capacity of boiler (#/Hr) hours of operation / year required TDS in boiler TDS in feedwater cost of water per hour ($/1000#) cost of a BTU ($/MMBTU) $ $ 10,000 8,000 2,500 250 0.93 7.50

blowdown inlet 1111 #/Hr 353 F

calculated:

blowdown separator

blowdown rate (#/Hr) flash steam lost (#/Hr) energy lost in flash steam (BTU/Hr) liquid blowdown down drain (#/Hr) energy lost in blowdown down drain (BTU/Hr) water used to quench blowdown (#/Hr) water to be made up because of blowdown (#/Hr) cost of flash steam ($/yr) cost of blowdown heat ($/yr) cost of water ($/yr) total cost per year

1,111 167 161,990 944 138,768 906 2,017 9719.4 8326.08 $15,006.48

906 #/Hr 65 F cold water

944 #/Hr 212 F water

1,850 #/Hr 140 F water to drain

$33,051.96

The cost of making dry steam is expensive but it doesnt need to be. A Pennsylvania Separator blowdown heat recovery system recovers about 95% of the heat lost without their system. On top of that, it eliminates a lot of water and sewer cost. The cost of making dry steam is expensive but it doesnt need to be. A Pennsylvania Separator blowdown heat recovery system recovers about 95% of the heat lost without their system. On top of that, it eliminates a lot of water and sewer cost.

167 #/Hr steam vented to (not wasted) deaerator

blowdown rate (#/Hr) flash steam recovered (#/Hr) energy recovered in flash steam (BTU/Hr) liquid blowdown down drain (#/Hr) energy recovered in blowdown down drain (BTU/Hr) water used to quench blowdown (#/Hr) water to be made up because of blowdown (#/Hr) savings from flash steam ($/yr) savings from recovering blowdown heat ($/Yr) savings from using less water ($/yr)

1,111 167 161,990 944 129,328 0 1,111 $ $ $ 9,719.40 7,759.68 6,740.64

blowdown inlet 1111 #/Hr 353 F

blowdown separator

make-up water 944 #/Hr 65 F to drain

944 #/Hr 212 F water

total savings ($/yr)

$ 24,219.72

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