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Backpass

02/26/2014 1:37 AM

I'm new at boiler management, i want to ask what is the meaning of "backpass" in boiler context? (especially in coal-fired steam power plant terms). Where does the term comes from. Regards.

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Re: Backpass

02/26/2014 9:15 AM

Are you reffering to "backpass" of a weldment?

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Re: Backpass

02/26/2014 10:32 AM

Two sites you need to study, especially the first:

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Re: Backpass

02/27/2014 4:43 AM

I think Your only assuming that i didn't try to find it in CR4. But there isn't any thread in CR4 that has explained about this. I meant backpass / back pass for boiler in coal-fired steam power plant

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02/27/2014 10:35 AM

A large utility boiler has a (front pass) furnace, where the tubes "see" the fire with radiative and convective heat transfer. The hot gases travel over the top and down the back pass, where there is primarily convective heat transfer.

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Re: Backpass

02/27/2014 3:43 PM

where does this term (backpass) first came from?

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Re: Backpass

03/05/2014 9:29 AM

The University of Hardknocks, perhaps?

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Re: Backpass

02/27/2014 3:41 PM

Do you have any reference, that states this? (A book/ journal/article)

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03/01/2014 6:10 AM

I may be wrong, I think you will find it come from either Yorkshire or Lancashire boilers of the 19th century.

One of the two had a back pass (return flue) with a secondary combustion chamber opposite the fire box.

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03/01/2014 12:36 PM

is there any article or journal which i can refer to that defines what back pass is?

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03/03/2014 9:51 AM

I thought I had sent this already. Sorry!

A pass is a straight shot of hot gases, horizontal or vertical, past heat transfer equipment. In a large coal- or trash-burning boiler, the furnace (close to the operator, so "front" pass) has upward gas flow, with larger ash particles falling to a collection hopper. Fly ash is entrained with the gas flow up, over, and down the back pass, through an air preheater, turning the corner toward the stack, hopefully past some pollution control equipment. In an old steam locomotive, the boiler has a single, horizontal pass from the firebox to the stack.

http://www.alstom.com%2FGlobal%2FPower%2FResources%2FDocuments%2FBrochures%2Fpulverised-coal-boiler-two-pass-boilers.pdf

http://www.fulton.com/products/productprofile.php?ptc=&uid=7

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