CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION
OBJECTIVE
CIRCUIT DIAGRAM
OPERATION/WORKING PRINCIPLE
CALCULATIONS
ADVANTAGES
DISADVANTAGES
APPLICATIONS
REFERENCES
 INTRODUCTION
A Regenerative air preheater is a type of air preheater used in

thermal power plants to preheat the steam generator's combustion

air with the hot flue gas from the steam generator.

The types of Regenerative Air Preheaters are

1. Bisector

2. Trisector

3. Qudrasector

Here the discussion is carried on the Trisector Air Preheater.

 OBJECTIVE
Mainly there are two types of Air Preheaters

1. Recuperative Air Preheater

2. Regenerative Air Preheater

The main objective of this project is to prove that the efficiency of

regenerative air pre heater is more, when compared to the

recuperative air pre heater.

It is to say that the Trisector type of Regenerative air pre heater is

more advantageous than Bisector type.

 CIRCUIT DIAGRAM OF
BOILER
Steam generator

Primary air

Burner Air preheater

Secondary air

Electric
precipitator Flue gas

Coal bunker
Pulverized
fuel

Intermed. Fly-
ash bunker
Fly ash
Excess Air
Coal
mill
FD-Fans
CIRCUIT DIAGRAM OF AIR
PREHEATER
 WORKING PRINCIPLE
Air Preheater is a device which is designed to heat the air

before the combustion process.

The purpose of Air Preheater is to recover the heat from the

flue gases which are obtained from the boiler thus increases
the thermal efficiency of the boiler.

Due to the discontinuous action taking place in the air pre

heater, it is so called as regenerative air pre heater.

 TRISECTOR AIR
PREHEATER
There are three sections in

the Trisector Air Preheater.

Flue Gases PRIMARY
AIR
Primary Air

Secondary Air FLUE GASES

SECONDARY
AIR
Flue gases are sent through

the chimney through Induced

Draft(ID) Fan.
Primary Air (PA) is used to dry the fine particles of
pulverized coal, which is then forced into the
furnace with the help of PA fan, from the
gravimetric coal feeder.

Secondary Air (SA) is used to supply sufficient

oxygen for complete combustion of fuel and this is
done with the help of Forced Draft (FD)fan.

Primary Air occupies 1/6th part of the Air Preheater.

Flue gases occupies 1/2nd part of the Air Preheater.

Secondary Air occupies 1/3rd part of the Air Preheater.

Sealings in air pre heater
Temperature at inlet conditions:
Flue gas 3600 c
Air temperature 35o c

Exit Temperature:
Flue gas 1400 c
Air temperature 180o c
 CALCULATIONS

1)

2)

3)
 [(Fraction of primary air x Inlet air
Weighted air temperature of primary air sector)
4) in = +
temperature (Fraction of secondary air x Inlet air
temperature of secondary air sector)]

5) Convective heat transfer takes place in air preheater i.e.

q = hA (t2 t1)

6) Area of Cross section occupied of flue gas, PA and SA systems:

i) Gas flow area = 25.94 m2
ii) Primary air flow area = 8.96 m2
iii) Secondary air flow area = 14.62 m2
 ADVANTAGES
Trisector Air Preheater provides both Primary
and Secondary Air sections in a single plate.

Due to the presence of Primary section

immediate to the Flue Gas path, complete
drying up of coal particles takes place.

It has quick response with variation of loads.

 DISADVANTAGES
Leakages are more, but this can be avoided

up to some extent by perfect sealing system.

Constructional cost for regenerative air

preheater is more when compared to
recuperative type.
 APPLICATIONS
It is used where in waste heat recovery is

possible for increase in efficiency of particular

device.

Hence it is installed in every thermal power

station.
 REFERENCES
Material provided by KTPS.

Thermal Engineering By R.K.Rajput, 6 th

Edition, published by Laxmi Publications.
Heat And Mass Transfer By
C.P.Kothandaraman and S.Subramanyan, 6 th
Edition.
Heat And Mass Transfer By R.K.Rajput.