Some people may say that a boiler is a boiler, but there are many differences in boilers and choosing the right boiler for your application is critical to providing the power you need to fuel your factory or business. Some of the different type of boilers include firetube boilers and heat recovery steam generators. The difference between a firetube boiler and hrsg’s is quite substantial. Heat recovery steam generators actually recover the heat as it passes through the boiler system, which then can be transferred back into the process for other uses. This can save a lot of money since you are not wasting all that heat by blowing out the stack. Heat recovery steam generators are great for process plants and facilities that need to use heat for secondary purposes and have the footprint to allow for a heat recovery unit.
Firetube boilers generally smaller with pressures around 150 to 600 psig and are great for smaller footprint places such as food processing plants. You can get HP between 200 to 2500, so some of these firetubes could get quite large. The Victory Energy firetube boiler is engineered and built for minimum maintenance and maximum output. They can help determine needs for specific facilities depending on the application and budget constraints. You can get firetube boilers in a number of different passes, for example a three pass boiler or a four pass boiler. The number of passes represents the number of time the fire actually passes through the tubes of the boiler. Firetube boilers have fire passing through where as a heat recovery steam generator usually have water passing through the tubes.
Also heat recovery boilers do just that… they recover heat and are not considered package boilers, where there is usually a burner attached. Firetube boilers usually come with a burner attached so they have there own heat source. Heat recovery units recover heat that is supplied by another fired unit. The Victory Energy hrsg is one of the most flexible, cost effective and technologically advanced units on the market. Their proprietary fintube design allows them to manufacture their boilers with the smallest footprint in the industry which greatly reduces radiant heat loss to contain energy costs. If you are in need of a firetube boiler or a heat recovery steam generator you should give Victory Energy a call.