Kraft Recovery Boilers

by Terry N. Adams, W.J. Frederick, T.M. Grace

This comprehensive textbook covers recovery boilers in great depth and pulls together information on combustion, safety, emissions, plugging, and corrosion. The book also covers fundamental chemical and mechanical engineering principles that bear directly on black liquor and recovery boilers. It contains information about typical values and the normal range of important variables, plus many example calculations, data tables and charts of relevant material properties or constants and conversion factors. Written by a team of industry experts, the text includes a great deal of practical information such as simple tests to pinpoint problems, important observations to help understand issues for a particular operations, and "rules-of-thumb" that are generally used in the industry.

381 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1997