Saturday 7 December 2013

130.What is furnace purge? Why 30% air flow? Why not 100% air flow? Why 5 Min?

Furnace Purge would involve allowing some minimum quantity of air to flow through the furnace (without fuel) for a specified period of time to remove any unburnt fuel. This activity is done every time boiler is started by running Air fans and Draft fans as required. It is expected that with 30% airflow maintained for a period of 5 min, the volume of air is adequate for the furnace to be purged completely of all the unburnt fuel that may be residual in the furnace during the previous firing operations thereby removing possible uncontrolled ignition/explosion during next firing operation.The Purge cycle is performed with furnace maintained under the design pressure(draft) conditions.


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