Calculate the total head of a boiler feed water pump
Calculate the total head of a boiler feed water pump
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Greetings to all dear good senior engineers:
I had calculated the total head of a boiler feed water pump, using the total head calculating equation I found in the book of library.
But since it is a actual case in the ship, so there is no answer could verifying my theoretical calculation is proper or wrong,
thus I humbly would want to ask you good seniors whether my calculation is wrong or proper?
Thank you for your time reading my question, and please kindly see the diagram & concept I used at the below.
Best and warmest regards.
I had calculated the total head of a boiler feed water pump, using the total head calculating equation I found in the book of library.
But since it is a actual case in the ship, so there is no answer could verifying my theoretical calculation is proper or wrong,
thus I humbly would want to ask you good seniors whether my calculation is wrong or proper?
Thank you for your time reading my question, and please kindly see the diagram & concept I used at the below.
Best and warmest regards.





RE: Calculate the total head of a boiler feed water pump
Looks good to me. Just remember this is total differential head which is what a pump vendor needs, not a system head curve.
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RE: Calculate the total head of a boiler feed water pump
A boiler IS NOT ANOTHER TANK !
The TDH of a BOILER FEED PUMP MUST AT LEAST BE:
- The steam pressure of the boiler (expressed as ft of water) PLUS
- The piping, control valve and other losses between the BFW pump and the feedwater inlet to the boiler PLUS
- A reasonable margin - for off design conditions.
The pressure of 6.5 kg/cm2 is atmospheric pressure at the stack and has nothing to do BFW pump head calculations
See page #26 of this fine manual....
http://www.grundfos.com/content/dam/Global%20Site/...
RE: Calculate the total head of a boiler feed water pump
The OPs calcualtion is
Steam pressure of the boiler in m absolute (65m),
plus his losses - 1m (prob a bit low but hey)
plus Pressure on the boiler feed water - 10m abs
plus Height difference between inlet tank and boiler level.
This would appear to be the same as yours and page 26 of what I agree is a fine looking manual - thanks for the link.
Sure, there is no margin in there and that is a reasonable point and the losses for the control valve are a little low, so given that I would probably add about 15m to the calcualtion to give a more reasonable figure and to make sure you don't run out of boiler feed water - this is based on having a control valve controlling level between the pump and the boiler.
My motto: Learn something new every day
Also: There's usually a good reason why everyone does it that way
RE: Calculate the total head of a boiler feed water pump
Best to you,
Goober Dave
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