Velox Boiler

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Velox Boiler.?
Velox boiler is forced
circulation fire tube boiler. It is
mostly used in gas turbine.
In this boiler, the velocity of flue
gases is greater than the
velocity of sound, which causes
more heat transfer from gas to
the water, which increases the
steam generation rate. Due to
this, it is most important boiler.

Working Principle
When the velocity of the gas is greater than the
speed of sound, its heat transfer rate is also
increases. So more heat is transfer from gas to
water as compare when the heat transfer at the
subsonic speed. This is the basic principle of it. This
boiler can increase the heat transfer rate or can say
steam generation rate without increasing boiler size.

Construction.
Velox boiler is a fire tube forced circulation boiler. It has a gas
turbine driven air compressor, which compresses the air. This
compressed air enters into the vertical combustion chamber, as
result, high rate of heat release from the fuel, which increases the
flue gases velocity up to the sound velocity. This is a force
circulation boiler, so pump is used to circulate water inside the
boiler. This boiler also consist water and fire tube to maintain the
flow of gas and water inside the boiler. This boiler also consists
other necessary mounting and accessories like economizer, super
heater, blow off valve, safety valve etc.

Mountings/Accessories.
Economizer: An economizer is a heat exchanger, used for heating the feed
water before it enters the boiler. The economizer recovers some of waste heat
of hot flue gases going to chimney. It helps in improving the boiler efficiency.
It is placed in the path of flue gases at the rear end of the boiler.

Super heater: It is a heat exchanger in which heat of combustion products is

used to dry the wet steam, pressure remains constant, its volume and
temperature increase. Basically, a super heater consists of a set of small
diameter U tubes in which steam flows and takes up the heat from hot flue
gases.

Feed Water Pump: It is used to feed the water at a high pressure against the
high pressure of steam already existing inside the boiler.

Steam Injector: A steam injector lifts and forces the feed water into the
boiler. It is usually used for vertical and locomotive boilers and can be
accommodated in small space. It is less costly. It does not have any moving
parts thus operation is salient.

Working
The Velox boiler works as a basic heat exchanger. The working of this
boiler
is as follow.
The air is compressed by air compressor driven by gas a turbine driven.This
compressed air passes from the combustion chamber, where more heat release by
the fuel which increase the velocity of the flue gases up to sound velocity.From the
bottom of combustion chamber, this flue gases pass from the fire tubes. These fire
tubes surrounded by the evaporator water tubes.
The water from the economizer passes from the evaporator tube force by a
circulating pump. This water passes 15 - 20 time from the evaporator tube at very
high speed.Due to this high speed circulation, heat is transfer from the gases to the
water at very high rate. The mixture of water and steam is formed which further
passes from the water and steam separator.

Working (Continued..)
The steam from the steam separator passes to the super
heater and further for process work. The remaining water
in the steam separator again passes from the evaporator
tube.The flue gases from the fire tubes send to the super
heater tubes, where it increases the steam
temperature.The gas from the super heater sends to the
turbine where it rotates the gas turbine and then passes
from the economizer.

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This boiler has high heat transfer rate.

It has great flexibility.
It is compact in design.
It can quickly be started.
It is easy to control. It is fully automatic.
It has great thermal efficiency of about 90 - 95%.
Low excess air is required as the pressurized air is used and the problem
of draught is simplified.

Disadvantages
1) Need extra ground as of horizontal constitution
2) Fuel oil burning power stations lies in the high cost
of fuel.
3) It can only operate on liquid or gaseous fuels.

Comparison

Applications
Velox boiler locomotives.
Power generation.
Velox expresso makers

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