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Chapter 1: Boiler Industry
What is a Boiler Plant?
Ans. A plant consisting of one or more boilers in battery or connected to a common header or steam outlet used to generate steam for heating, process or mechanical work in a prime mover.
What is a heating plant?
Ans. A boiler plant consisting of one or more boilers in battery connected to a common header or steam outlet used to generate steam for heating conditioned spaces. Depending on the distances the steam must travel to the condition space will determine the pressure the boiler must generate. The steam once it leaves the boiler is then directed and handled by other auxiliaries and accessories before being discharged through heat transfer surfaces which give off the heat energy in the steam to the conditioned space before returning to condensate and returning to the boiler via condensate return pumps, condensate tank and boiler feed pumps.
The heat energy produced by a boiler in a heating plant is often recycled and reused in other processes to reduce fuel consumption in the boiler and thus reduce overall costs to operate and maintain the boiler. The steam leaving the boiler may also be reduced through Pressure Reducing Stations or Pressure Reducing Valves (PRVs) before the steam enters heat exchanging equipment. If the heat exchanging equipment (radiators or coils) are relatively in close proximity to the boiler a PRV is not required as the steam pressure entering the coil is sufficient to heat the space and not do damage to the coil as it gives off its heat energy and return to condensate.
