Improve Your Kraft Recovery Boiler Troubleshooting Skills
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According to University of Toronto Professor Honghi Tran, Ph.D., the complexity of the chemical recovery and energy conversion operations, along with the need to comply with stringent environmental regulations make the recovery boiler the most essential, and by far, the most expensive piece of equipment in the kraft chemical recovery process.
By utilizing resources like Kraft Recovery Boilers, 3rd Edition from TAPPI Press, you can learn how to avoid unscheduled shutdowns of the boiler and even shutdowns of the entire mill.
Kraft Recovery Boilers includes 16 chapters covering various aspects of recovery boiler technology from chemical principles to black liquor properties, sprays, combustion, char bed characteristics and air delivery.
It also covers a wide range of operating issues including air emissions, deposit formation and plugging, soot blowers and deposit removal, corrosion and cracking, boiler inspection, safety, design, control principles, and material and energy balances.
In the Black Liquor Properties chapter, for example, authors William J. Frederick, Jr., Ph.D. and J. Michael Buchanan delve into the importance of understanding how black liquor properties change when liquor composition, total dry solids content, or temperature changes. The authors focus on straightforward estimation techniques for black liquor properties. The chapter includes examples of how to use the information presented to understand and troubleshoot operating problems with evaporators or recovery boilers.
Like the previous two editions published over two decades ago, this book is sponsored by the Recovery Boiler Program R&D Subcommittee of the American Forest & Paper Association (AF&PA) and published by TAPPI Press.
Learn more and order your copy of Kraft Recovery Boilers, 3rd Edition today.
