Heavy Fuel Oil

[Windybottom]

Looking for tips/information on steam atomisation of HFO,usining a gun system. Best steam/oil ratio etc.

 

[Montemayor]

Windybottom:

For this type of information I wouldn't trust anyone's numbers or ratios except those of the burner manufacturer. Why aren't you using them to find out your needs?

Art Montemayor
Spring, TX

 

[rmw]

What type of HFO? HFO ain't what it used to be. Steam heating and atomization requirements vary based on the characteristics of the fuel oil.

rmw

 

[Windybottom]

We are heating the oil to a supposed redwood of 6000pph as required by a Woodward burner control. I will check on the viscosity on the delivered oil.

The system is being used for animal feed drying, normally running on natural gas.

 

[25362]

The book titled Furnace Operations by Robert D. Reed (Gulf) has a chapter on "Burners, Fuel and Firing" including steam atomization, that may interest you.