Increasing the energy production of recovery boilers

摘要

The aim of this thesis is to study different methods to increase the energy production of recovery boilers. This improvement is encouraged by the current energy policy and the rapid rise in energy prices, especially in electricity. In addition, the energy efficiency of the power plants is intended to be improved. There are several methods to increase the energy production. The methods taken into more accurate study are lower pressure steam for soot blowing and flue gas coolers. Energy balances are made for these two cases to check a plausible addition of power generation of turbo-generator of the steam turbine. Also, the viability issues are studied.Solvo Power Plant Simulation program is used for the energy balance research. Two case power plants are simulated to solve the balances. To solve the addition of power generation with the flue gas coolers, basic balance calculation is performed. The viabilities are also taken into account, especially the payback times of these alternatives. On the basis of the results, installing the system to the process is viable in both cases. By installing the lowest possible pressure steam system for the soot blowing, the advantages are the most significant. The investment costs are the highest but the payback time is less than 1,5 years and the profit in the next 20 years is the greatest. In the case of flue gas coolers, the results did not entirely agree with past studies. Nevertheless, installing the flue gas coolers into the process also seems to be significant and profitable.