For the foreseeable future, you’re not likely to hear the word boiler mentioned in regard to any design or installation meant to provide redundancy and cost savings without the words “modular” or “modular boiler plant” attached, as the modular systems approach to boiler design and deployment is now in full utilization across a wide range of industries.
Fundamental to this realization, and as a first step in its discussion, is a definition of what is meant by each of these terms, provided below:
• Modular boiler – Boiler that is linked to other boilers in series or parallel configuration so that each can provide a percentage of the total system load and act as backup to each other in real time and/or in the event of an emergency. Usually involves substituting a large size (traditional) boiler with a proportionally greater number of smaller boilers to achieve equal HP requirements.
• Modular boiler plant – Fully engineered, piped, wired and tested modular boilers that are built on a common platform (skid) where they are fully integrated with all other ancillary equipment. This makes them self-contained, portable and pre-fabricated units, not unlike the new-style homes that are made from shipping containers (also called cargo container architecture). Ancillary equipment includes deaerator and surge tanks, feed water tanks, blow-down tanks, water treatment and chemical feed systems, and a system sequencing lead/lag control package.
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