MARINE FLUIDIZED BED WASTE HEAT BOILER DESIGN AND OPERATING EXPERIENCE

The paper describes a project in which a fluidized bed heat exchanger is being used as a marine waste heat boiler for the first time. The shipowner's requirement was to retrofit a waste heat evaporator unit, linked to the existing auxiliary boilers in a 32 000 dwt product tanker to generate saturated steam for carbon heating, tank cleaning, fuel heating and hotel requirements. The waste heat was to be recovered from the exhaust of a 8800 kW (12 000 bhp) slow speed diesel. The paper describes the considerations which led to the choice of the fluidized bed boiler and the problems which were envisaged in transplanting a shore based technology into the marine environment, including the disturbing effect of ship motions on the fluidization of the bed.

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  Institute of Marine Engineers

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  London EC3R 7JN,   England 
• Authors:
  • Cusdin, D R
  • Virr, M J
• Publication Date: 1979

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: 15 p.
• Serial:
  • Institute of Marine Engineers Transactions
  • Volume: 91
  • ISSN: 0309-3948

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Boilers; Diesel engine exhaust gases; Fluidized bed combustion; Furnaces; Heat exchangers; High speed rail; Propulsion; Ships; Waste heat utilization
• Old TRIS Terms: Advanced propulsion; Fluidized bed; Slow speed diesels; Waste heat boilers
• Subject Areas: Marine Transportation; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00312354
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Engineering Index
• Report/Paper Numbers: Part 3
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jul 22 1980 12:00AM