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What Is Benson Boiler?: 1. Air Preheater

Benson Boiler is a high pressure, drumless steam boiler that operates at supercritical pressure. It was invented in 1922 by Mark Benson and prevents the formation of bubbles by compressing water to a supercritical state where the densities of water and steam are the same. At supercritical pressure, water turns directly into steam without bubbles as its latent heat reduces to zero.

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What Is Benson Boiler?: 1. Air Preheater

Benson Boiler is a high pressure, drumless steam boiler that operates at supercritical pressure. It was invented in 1922 by Mark Benson and prevents the formation of bubbles by compressing water to a supercritical state where the densities of water and steam are the same. At supercritical pressure, water turns directly into steam without bubbles as its latent heat reduces to zero.

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What is Benson Boiler?

Benson Boiler is a high pressure, drum less, supercritical, water tube steam boiler with forced
circulation. This boiler was invented in the year 1922 by Mark Benson. This boiler is a super critical
boiler in which the feed water is compressed to a supercritical pressure and this prevents the
formation of bubbles in the water tube surface. The bubbles do not form because at supercritical
pressure the density of water and steam becomes same. It was Mark Benson who first proposed the
idea to compress the water at supercritical pressure before heating into boiler and due to this the
latent heat of water reduces to zero. As the latent heat of water reduces to zero the water directly
changes into steam without the formation of bubbles.

1. Air Preheater
It preheats the air before entering into the furnace. The preheated air increases the burning efficiency
of the fuel.

2. Economiser
It heats the water to a certain temperature.

3. Radiant Superheater
It is super heater which heats the water with radiation produced by the burnt fuel. It raises the
temperature to supercritical temperature.

4. Convection Evaporator
It evaporates the superheated water and converts them into steam. It does so by the convection mode
of heat transfer to the water from the hot flue gases.

5. Convection Superheater
It superheats the steam to the desired temperature (nearly 650 degree Celsius).

6. Furnace
It is the place where the fuel is burnt.

7. Feed Pump
It is used to supply the water inside the boiler at supercritical pressure of 225 bars.

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