Pulse-Jet Baghouses on Boilers??
They Can Work —
IF DONE RIGHT!!
BELBA & Associates – the PJFF expert with practical, hands-on experience offers:
- Intimate knowledge of pulse-jet installations worldwide
- Knowledge of what makes some PJFFs work and why many haven’t
- Expertise & success in sizing PJFFs and selecting the important design details
- Experience & success in specifying PJFFs, selecting competent bidders and evaluating/negotiating bids
- Realistic economic assessments of PJFFs & COHPAC vs. existing system upgrades
- Successful experience with PJFF design/specification, troubleshooting, O&M and pilot plants includes:
PJFF Design, Economic/Feasibility Studies & Procurement Services
- Specified & evaluated bids for PJFF retrofits on three PC-fired western utility boilers (2008) –
Vic – I’m very happy to say that the new bag houses at our plant are working well. Your specification was a critical element in making performance and quality of the bag houses what they are… Utility Manager
- Scaled up pilot plant data, sized and specified PJFFs for retrofit on three large PC-fired units at an eastern utility.
Technically/economically compared PJFFs, COHPAC with ESP upgrades. - Specified PJFFs and evaluated bids for numerous other industrial and utility PC- and stoker-fired boilers & FBCs.
- Authored EPRI handbook regarding the design of PJFFs & COHPAC for utility boilers.
- EPRI economic studies of fabric filters vs. ESPs for utility boilers (1985 & 1992).
Troubleshooting, Operation & Maintenance
- Diagnosed ΔP and opacity problems with multi-cyclones & PJFFs on PC-fired unit. Economically ranked remedies.
- Diagnosed ΔP and premature bag failure problems with a PJFF on a waste-fired FBC in Canada.
- Authored EPRI handbook regarding O&M of PJFFs on utility & industrial boilers.
Research & Development — Pilot Plants
- EPRI worldwide surveys & performance analyses of PJFFs applied to utility & industrial boilers (1991 & 2005).
- Established key scale-up issues & conceptual design of a PJFF & reverse-gas fabric filter (RGFF) pilot plant for a western utility. Economically analyzed pilot plant arrangements & developed innovative concepts for vendor participation & cost-sharing. Developed fabric prescreening & pilot test programs.
- Scaled up pilot plant data to develop conceptual designs & economic comparisons of RGFFs & PJFFs applied to MHD generators and novel proprietary gas conditioning systems for ESPs & baghouses.