The aim of the work is to design a plain wood combustion boiler of 88 t/h output. Fuelling component analysis has been added to the basic boiler parameters. For given fuel is prepared stechiometric calculations. After making the heat balance of boiler is determined the thermal efficiency. For given output of steam parametrs (temparature, pressure, volume) are designed individual convective surfaces and dimensons of the boiler. It is also made drawings.

The aim of this thesis is design a grate steam boiler for burning straw with an output of 10 tons of steam per hour. The produceds team has parameters 320 °C, 3,2 MPa. For a given fuel (fytomass) is calculated stoichiometric calculation. The following is the calculation of the heat balance of the boiler including the determinativ of thermal efficiency. The fuel used, the required parameters of steam and feed water temperature are designed individual convective surfaces and dimensions of the boiler. The boiler design includes drawings.

This thesis deals with a project of steam boiler to combustion of refused-derived fuel. With respect of required fuel and output parameters of the steam was worked out stoichiometry, energy loss and boiler efficiency, heat flows was allocate to individual heat exchange surfaces. The heat exchange surfaces was calculate and project in detail.

The work deals with the constructional and calculation design of the boiler for burning wood and combustion coal in scale (30/70-coal), in load 50 t/h, parameters of steam output p=7,5 MPa, t=480 °C and a temperature of feed water 105 °C. It is a boiler with natural water circulation by evaporation surfaces. In proposal first steichiometric calculations and enthalpic calculations of air and flue gas are performed. Then it is calculated heat balance, the boiler losses and the thermal efficiency is determined. After designing the combustion chamber and dimensions of pulls are determined. In last chapter the overall energy balance are checked. Drawing documentation of steam boiler is a part of the work.

The thesis includes design of steam boiler burning woodchips with parameters of steam 88 t/h, 9,6 MPa, 520 °C. For these parameters is processed a heat calculation and dimensional design of boiler.

The aim of a diploma thesis is design of draft boiler for co-firing blast furnace gas and natural gas. In the first part is made the stoichiometric calculation for the gas mixture. Next is the proposal of combustion chamber and proposal of individual heating surfaces of boiler. Next part contains the thermal calculation and control of individual heating surfaces. Part of the work is also drawing documentation of boiler.

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Doctor of Philosophy / Department of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering / Steven J. Eckels / The current research presents the experimental investigation of the effect of tube pitch on enhanced tube bundles’ performance. The typical application of this research is flooded refrigerant evaporators. Boosting evaporator’s performance through optimizing tube spacing reduces cost and energy consumption. R-134a with the enhanced tube Turbo BII-HP and R-123 with Turbo BII-LP were used in this study. Three tube pitches were tested P/D 1.167, P/D 1.33, and P/D 1.5. Each tube bundle includes 20 tubes (19.05 mm outer diameter and 1 m long each) constructed in four passes. The test facility’s design allows controlling three variables, heat flux, mass flux, and inlet quality. The type of analysis used is local to one location in the bundle. This was accomplished by measuring the water temperature drop in the four passes. The water-side pressure drop is included in the data analysis. A new method called the EBHT (Enthalpy Based Heat Transfer) was introduced, which uses the water-side pressure drop in performing the heat transfer analysis. The input variables ranges are: 15-55 kg/m².s for mass flux, 5-60 kW/m² for heat flux, and 10-70% for inlet quality. The effect of local heat flux, local quality, and mass flux on the local heat transfer coefficient was investigated. The comparison between the bundle performance and single tube performance was included in the results of each tube bundle. The smallest tube pitch has the lowest performance in both refrigerants, with a significantly lower performance in the case of R-134a. However, the two bigger tube pitches have very similar performance at low heat flux. Moreover, the largest tube pitch performance approaches that of the single tube at medium and high heat fluxes. For the R-123 study, the smallest tube bundle experienced quick decease in performance at high qualities, exhibiting tube enhancement dry-out at certain flow rates and high qualities. The flow pattern effect was demonstrated by the dry-out phenomena. At medium and high heat fluxes, as the tube pitch increases, the performance approaches that of the single tube. All tube bundles experience quick decrease in performance at high qualities. Evidently, P/D 1.33 is the optimum tube pitch for the studied refrigerants and enhanced tubes combinations.

Denna studie har utförts på Calamo AB som arbetar med elektropolering och betning av rostfritt stål. Efter ytbehandlingssteget krävs sköljning av godset för att avlägsna kemikalierester vilket medför att stora mängder surt sköljvatten uppstår. Idag används våtkemisk fällningsanläggning för att rena sköljvattnet. Det befintliga reningsverket kräver flertalet tillsatser samtidigt som mängden slam som går till deponi är stor. Företaget vill utreda miljönyttan med att installera en vakuumindunstare för att ersätta det befintliga reningsverket som reningsmetod samt se över möjligheten att minska sin vattenförbrukning i samband med sköljning av gods för att bland annat kunna reducera storleken på indunstaren, minska belastningen på reningsstegen samt reducera mängden avfall. Studiens mål var att kartlägga uppkomsten av förorenat sköljvatten, identifiera potentiella vattenbesparande åtgärder och hur dessa åtgärder påverkar effektiviteten hos reningsanläggningarna. Samt visa hur installation av en vakuumindunstare förändrar företagets miljöpåverkan och utreda om det finns möjligheter att återanvända eller återvinna kemikalier och metaller från processen. Kartläggning och flödesmätningar av sköljvattenbehovet utfördes med hjälp av information av personal på Calamo samt en ultraljudsmätare. Vattenbesparande åtgärder, påverkan på reningsanläggning samt möjligheter till återvinning av kemikalier undersöktes genom litteraturstudie samt modellering i Excel. Utredningen av miljönyttan genom att ersätta befintligt reningsverk med vakuumindunstare utfördes med hjälp av LCA-värden hämtade från databasen SimaPro 8.0.4. Flera olika förslag på vattenbesparande åtgärder studerades och dessa gav en total vattenreduktion till reningsverket på mellan 5 - 81 % beroende på hur många samt vilka åtgärder som vidtogs. Enligt miljöberäkningarna genererar vakuumindunstaren 3 gånger högre utsläpp av koldioxidekvivalenter och 7 gånger större behov av icke förnyelsebar energi jämfört med det befintliga reningsverket. Genom att installera sprutskölj med motströmsteknik i stycke, sammankoppla befintliga sköljkar i avdelningarna betning, AVFKA samt automaten och installera sparsköljstank i alla avdelningar uppnås en reduktion av förorenat vatten till reningsstegen på 81%, vilket ytterligare kan optimeras genom installation av jonbytare, återanvändning av varmt vatten från renrum. Dessutom ökar föroreningshalten med 61% då dessa åtgärder vidtas vilket gynnar reningseffektiviteten i reningsanläggningarna och därav rekommenderas detta alternativ. Även kemikalieanvändningen och förluster av metalljoner reduceras avsevärt i processen genom användningen av sparskölj. Att installera vakuumindunstare rekommenderas inte på grund av dess stora energianvändning, dock kan andra resultat uppstå då andra LCA-värden används samt genom andra antaganden och hänsyn till kemikalie- och metallåtervinning istället för deponi. / This study has been carried out at Calamo AB, which works with electropolishing and pickling of stainless steel. After the surface treatment step, rinsing of the material is required to remove chemical residues, which results in large amounts of acid rinse water. Today, wet chemical precipitation plant is used to clean the rinse water. The existing treatment plant requires most additives, while the amount of sludge that goes to landfill is large. The company wants to investigate the environmental benefits of installing a vacuum evaporator to replace the existing sewage treatment plant as a purification method and to review the possibility of reducing its water consumption in connection with rinsing of goods in order to reduce the size of the evaporator, reduce the load on the purification steps and reduce the amount of waste. The aim of the study was to map the emergence of polluted rinse water, identify potential water-saving measures and how these measures affect the efficiency of the treatment plants. And show how the installation of a vacuum evaporator changes the company's environmental impact and investigate whether there are opportunities to reuse or recycle chemicals and metals from the process. Mapping and flow measurements of the rinse water requirement were performed using information from staff at Calamo and an ultrasonic meter. Water-saving measures, impact on treatment plant and opportunities for recycling of chemicals were investigated through literature study and modeling in Excel. The study of the environmental benefits by replacing existing treatment plants with vacuum evaporators was carried out using LCA values obtained from the database SimaPro 8.0.4. Several different proposals for water-saving measures were studied and these gave a total water reduction to the treatment plant of between 5 - 81% depending on how many and what measures were taken. According to the environmental calculations, the vacuum evaporator generates 3 times higher emissions of carbon dioxide equivalents and 7 times the need for non-renewable energy compared to the existing treatment plant. By installing spray rinse with countercurrent technology in one piece, interconnecting existing rinses in the cuttings departments, AVFKA as well as the dispenser and installing sparse rinse tank in all departments, a reduction of contaminated water to the purification steps of 81% is achieved, which can be further optimized by installation of ion exchangers, reuse of hot water from clean room. In addition, the pollutant content increases by 61% as these measures are taken, which favors the purification efficiency of the treatment plants and hence this option is recommended. The use of chemicals and losses of metal ions are also considerably reduced in the process through the use of savings rinses. Installing vacuum evaporators is not recommended due to its large energy use, however, other results may arise when other LCA values are used, as well as through other assumptions and considerations for chemical and metal recycling instead of landfill.

Les poudres laitières sont obtenues par concentration du produit liquide (membranes, évaporation sous vide) puis séchage du concentré. Contrairement au séchage par atomisation, peu de travaux ont été menés sur la concentration par évaporation sous vide. Pourtant, la maîtrise du schéma global de production des poudres gagnerait en une meilleure compréhension de cette opération réalisée dans des évaporateurs à flot tombant. Le présent travail vise à étudier comment améliorer les performances des évaporateurs ; il s’appuie sur deux facteurs limitants de l’opération : l’encrassement des surfaces d’échange et la viscosité maximale en sortie des évaporateurs. La contribution des différents constituants des produits à l’encrassement a été étudiée grâce à une méthodologie développée sur un évaporateur pilote.Les résultats obtenus ont permis d’identifier les éléments minéraux qui contribuent à l’encrassement lors de la concentration de microfiltrat et d’ultrafiltrat de lait, de lactosérums acides chlorhydrique et lactique. Afin de dépasser l’extrait sec maximal en sortie des évaporateurs à flot tombant, deux évaporateurs rotatifs à couche mince, de conceptions différentes, ont été testés à l’échelle pilote. Les études de faisabilité ont été menées jusqu’à la poudre. Le potentiel des équipements a été évalué suivant les propriétés fonctionnelles des poudres et le coût énergétique d’élimination de l’eau. Dans l’un des cas, le remplacement de la tour de séchage par deux évaporateurs rotatifs en série constitue une rupture technologique pour la production de poudres de perméat et dimi / Dairy powders are produced using a two-step process: concentration of the liquid product (membrane, concentration by vacuum evaporation) and drying of the concentrate. Contrary to spray-drying, vacuum concentration has been poorly investigated. However, a better understanding of this unit operation carried out in falling-film evaporators would lead to an improved control of the global process scheme for the production of powders. This PhD project aims to highlight how to enhance the performances of falling-film evaporators; it focuses on two limiting factors of the vacuum concentration: the fouling of the heating surfaces and the maximal viscosity at the outlet of the falling-film evaporators. The contribution of the different product components to the fouling was investigated using a methodology developed at pilot-scale.Our results showed which mineral elements favored the fouling of falling-film evaporators during the concentration of milk microlfiltrate and ultrafiltrate as well as hydrochloric and lactic acid wheys. Besides, two thin-film rotative evaporators of different designs were tested at pilot-scale in order to exceed the maximum dry matter achieved in falling-film evaporators. The feasibility studies were conducted up to the production of powders. The capabilities of the equipment were evaluated according to the functional properties of powders and the specific energy costs relative to the removal of water. In one case, the combination of two rotative evaporators replacing the spray drier constitutes a technological breakthrough in the production of permeate p