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Heating Ventilating Air Conditioning Guide 1939
Chapter 13. Heating Boilers
per hour for'mechanically fired- boilers when operating at design load
When operating at maximum load2 these values will run between. 5000 and 1 6000 Btu per sq ft per hour. : Boilers operating under favorable conditions 1 at the above heat transfer rates will give exit gas temperatures that are considered consistent with good practice.
TESTING AND RATING CODES
The. Society has.adopted three solid .fuel testing codes, a solid fUe[
rating code and; an oil .fuel testing code. A.S.H.V.E. Standard: and Short
Form Heat Balance Codes for Testing Low-Pressure Steam Heating
Solid Fuel Boilers--Codes 1 and 2--(Reyisionof June 1929)3, are intended to provide a method for conducting and reporting tests to determine heat
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efficiency and performance characteristics. A.S.H.V.E. Performance Test Code for Steam Heating Solid Fuel Boilers--Code No. 3--(Edition of
1929)8 is intended for use With A.S.H.V.E. Code for Rating Steam Heating Solid Fuel Hand-Fired Boilers4. The object of this test code is to specify
the tests'to be conducted and to provide a method for conducting and reporting tests to determine the efficiencies and performance of the boiler/
The A.S.H.V.E. Standard Code for Testing Steam Heating Boilers
Burning Oil Fuel3 is intended to provide a standard method for con ducting and reporting, tests to determine the heating efficiency and performance characteristics when oil fuel is used with steam heating boilers.
Steel Heating Boilers Ratings '
The Steel Heating Boiler Institule has adopted a method for the rating of low pressure boilers based on their physical characteristics and expressed in square feet of steam or water radiation or in Btu per hour as given in Table 2. The following requirements are included in this Code:
1. One square foot of steam radiation is to be considered equal to the emission of
240 Btu per hour and one sqiiare foot of water radiation is to -be considered equal to
emission of 150 Btu.per hour;:
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2. The rating pf a boiler expressed in square;feet.of steam radiation in which solid fuel
hand fired is used is based, on the amount .equal to 14,times the heating surface of the
boiler in square feet. ... .. : - . ..
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3.'The`rating of a boiler expressed m square feet of steam radiation in which solid fu^
mechanically; fired, or in which: oil or gas; is burned, ;is based on the amount equal to
17 times the-heating surface of the boilerin square feet.
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4. Heating surface is to be expressed in square feet and include those surfaces in the
boiler which are exposed to the products of combustion on brie side and water on the
other. . In. measuring surfaces, the outer tube areas are to be considered. Wh?n a
boiler has the water leg height increased, the heating surface noted in -the published
ratings are not to be increased.
5. A grate area is to be considered as an area of the grate surface expressed in square
feet and measured in the plane of the top surface of the grate.. For double grate boilers
the grate surface is to be considered as the area of the upper grate plus one-quarter of the
area of the lower grate.
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6. The grate area of a boiler for rating, as determined in No. 2 is to be not less than
that determined by the [following formulae: ,
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For boilers with ratings 1800,sq ft to 4000 sq ft of steam radiation: \
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VGrate Area =
Catalogue Rating (in square feet steam radiation) -- 200
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aFor definitions of design load and-maximum load see pages.237 and 238. *See A.S.H.V.E. Transactions, Vol. 35, 1929. p. 12. Also Chapter 45. 3See A.S.H.V.E. Transactions, Vol. 36, 1930, p. 35. Also Chapter 45. *See A.S.H.V.E. Transactions, Vol:-37,1931vp'. 23. Also. Chapter.45.
Table 2. Standard Steel Heating Boiler Ratings3
1,800 2,200 2,600 3.000 3.500 4.000 4.500 <5,000 6.000 7,000 8;500
10,000
12.500 15.000
17.500 20.000 25.000 .30,000 35.000
Hisu Fired CiPACirr Ratino
Btu per Hr
Surface Sq Ft
2,880 3,520 4,160 4,800 5.600 6,400 .7,200 8,000 9.600
11,200 13.600 16,000
20,000 24.000 28.000 32,000 40.000 48.000 56.000
432,000528,000 624,000 720,000 840,000 960,000 1,080,000 1,200,000 1,440,000 1,680,000 2,040,000 2,400,000 3,000,000 3,600,000 4,200,000
4,-800,000 6,000,000 7,200,000
8,400,000
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158 186 215 250 286 322
358 429 500 608 715 893 1,072 1,250 1,429
1,786 2,143 2,500
Mechanically Fired Capacity Rating
Grate Steam Water Area Radiation Radiation Sq Ft Sq Ft Sq Ft
Bto per Hr
Furnace Volume Bituminous Coal
CuFt
7.9 8.9 9.7 10.5 11.4 12.2 13.4 14.5 16.4
18.1 . 20.5 22.5
25.6 28.4 30.9 33.2 37.4 41.2
44.7
2,190 .2,680 3,160 3,650 4,250 4,860 5,470 6,080
7,290 8,500 10,330 12,150 15,180
18,220 21,250 24,290 30,360 36,430 42,500
3,500 4,280 5,050
5,840 6,800
7,770 8,750 9,720 11,660 13,600 16,520 19,440
24,280 29,150 34,000 38,860 .48,570 58,280 68,000
525,600 643,200 : 758,400 876,000 1,020,000 1,166,400 .1,312,800 1,459,200
1,749,600 2,040,000 2,479,200 2,916,000 3,643,200 4,372,800 5,100,000 5,829,600 7,286,400 8,743,200
10,200,000
15.7 19.2.
22.6 26.1 30.4 34.8
39.1 43.5 52.1 60.8 73.8
86.8 108.5 130.2
151.8 173.5 216.9 260.3 303.6
.AHftntpd bv the Sled Healing Boiler Institute in cooperation with the Bureau of Standards, United States Deportment of Commerce Simplified Practice Recommendation R 167-S5.
For boilers with ratings 4000 sq ft of steam radiation arid larger:
VGrate Area =
Catalogue Rating (in square feet steam radiation) 16.8
1500 (2)
7. The volume for furnaces in which solid fuel is burned is to be considered as the
cubical content of the space between the bottom of the fuel bed and the first plane of entry into or between the tubes. Volume of furnaces in which pulverized liquid fuel or
gaseous fuel is burned are to be considered as the cubical content of the space between
the hearth and the first plane of entry into.or between the tubes. No minimum furnace
volume is to be specified for mechanical-fired boilers burning anthracite.
8. The furnace volume for a^boiler, with a rating as determined in No.- 3 in which oil,
gas or bituminous coal stoker fired is burned is not to be less than one cubic foot for
every 140 sq ft of steam rating.
9. .The: average.height of furnace for the rating determined in No. 3 in which bitu
minous coal, stoker fired is burned is riot to be less than that determined graphically in
Fig. 1 or mathematically by the following forhuila:
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H = average furnace'height; inches as determined by the following formula: 12F ._ 12F
H = A ~ WI. R- -- stoker fired boiler rating, square,foot steam radiation. A -- planarea of firebox, square: feet measured at the bottom of-the fuel bed.'F = furnace volume, cubic feet.
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