T
o limit the impact of climate change, the UK has legally committed to reaching net zero by 2050. Whilst strides have been made to reduce emissions, there remains some way to go. Industrial organisations looking to
improve sustainability in their process heating applications have four major opportunities available to them now to assist in this journey.
1. DECARBONISATION
By Etienne Fourie, Technical Sales Manager, Babcock Wanson
Alternative solutions to the use of fossil fuels in steam and hot water production are readily popular and practical means of decarbonising. In the light industry, heat pumps, electric resistance heaters and electrode boilers offer heating. Babcock Wanson has developed a voltage electric boilers that provide precise temperature control. In hard to abate sectors, due to the high temperature heat requirements and the necessity to adapt heating technologies sadly not as straightforward.
feasible, hybrid solutions allow customers the best available energy source at any given time to be used. Combustion solutions based on renewable energy such as hydrogen, biogas and oxycombustion are also on the table for consideration, but have a more limited scope.
2. ENERGY PERFORMANCE
Firstly, ensure you have a modern energy with the heated vessel. Our Modulo+ gas burners, for example, are designed with digital micro-modulation control and specially developed combustion head for a high lower overall losses due to a reduction in the number of purge cycles. The key to a good burner is its ability to provide very accurate control of excess air over the entire operating range, resulting in an excellent combustion the lowest practicable operating costs. Secondly, adapt water treatment to the quality of the water available by ensuring the correct water treatment chemicals are used for the process at hand. Consider the use of ion exchange softening, thermal degassing (deaeration) and demineralisation by reverse osmosis or by resin exchange. Thirdly, consider remote monitoring of heating systems which alerts users to deviations in equipment operation and water quality enabling them to take fast action.
3. REDUCTION OF POLLUTING EMISSIONS 4. RECOVERY AND RE-USE
Look at best practice in managing natural resources. When it comes to water management, consider implementing solutions to recover and reintegrate part of the water discharged, thereby reducing water consumption. Waste heat recovery through the use of ideal and can allow for considerable savings to be made. Economisers are essentially heat exchange devices that extract the residual heat from the exhaust gas generated by the combustion process. That recovered heat is usually fed back into the process, typically to the boiler feed water thereby optimising compact and cost-effective manner. Babcock combustion air preheater that recovers heat from the combustion fumes and uses a Flue Gas Solvent recovery systems should also be
Where low carbon solutions are not a practical option, focus on maximising the energy performance of existing boilers. There are several ways this can be achieved.
In addition to the actions listed above, polluting emissions can be reduced further through the capture and eliminate air pollutants generated by industrial installations. Thermal oxidation solutions, including regenerative, recuperative and deodorising options, are highly effective at treating VOCs and odours. Pollutant gases are heated to a high temperature in a combustion chamber and are fully oxidised before being discharged as a harmless gas.
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considered to both help reduce your carbon foot- print and meet increasingly stringent emission limits for solvents and VOCs.
THE ROAD TO DECARBONISATION decarbonisation. Each industry and each application face their own set of challenges, but options are available to help improve sustainability and get you one step closer to the Net Zero destination.
Babcock Wanson
www.babcock-wanson.com
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