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Article | REF: BE8732 V1

Power, waste, biomass and recovery boilers

Authors: Markus HAIDER, Philippe SEGUIN

Publication date: October 10, 2012

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1. Power boilers

The term "power boiler" stems from the field of application of boilers in large thermal power plants. Until the 1980s, the term was used to describe large boilers with radiant furnaces and oil, gas or pulverized coal burners. Recent decades have seen the rise of fluidized beds, combined cycles with recovery boilers and the virtual disappearance of large-capacity oil- or gas-fired boilers.

In this section, we consider pulverized coal and circulating fluidized bed (CFB) boilers as power boilers. Large recovery boilers are covered in 4

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