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Heavy Fuel Oil

Heavy Fuel Oil

Heavy Fuel Oil

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

RE: Heavy Fuel Oil

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

RE: Heavy Fuel Oil

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

RE: Heavy Fuel Oil

(OP)
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.

RE: Heavy Fuel Oil

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.

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