Example 6.5 Steam leaves the drum of a boiler at the rate of 64 kg/s at 60 bar, with 2% moisture. The feedwater from the
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Example 6.5 Steam leaves the drum of a boiler at the rate of 64 kg/s at 60 bar, with 2% moisture. The feedwater from the economiser enters the drum at the rate of 62 kg/s and has 3 ppm. The makeup water at the rate of 2 kg/s is fed into the drum and it has 50 ppm. Effective steam washing reduces the solids in the moisture, leaving the drum with steam, to 5 ppm. If the solid concentration in the drum water is to be maintained at 1000 ppm, find (a) the blowdown required in kg/s, (b) heat loss in blowdown as a percentage of total heat released in the furnace, if blowdown heat recovery is not used, when the fuel burning rate is 7 kg/s and its heating value 23 MJ/kg, and (c) the deposition of scale in superheater tube in kg/day. Take the room temperature as 30 °C.