Industrial Boilers
Skid-Mounted, Customized Industrial Boiler System Solutions
Complete Boiler Package Solutions
AirClean Energy makes industrial boiler systems easy to implement with custom-designed industrial boiler package solutions. Our high-efficiency, low emission boiler packages can include:
- Steam Turbine Generators
- Deaerators
- Economizers
- Feedwater Pumps
- Water Softeners and Chemical Injection
- Reverse Osmosis Water Treatment Systems
- Integrated Control Systems
Single Point of Contact & Service Guarantee
In addition to extensive industry experience and specialized product expertise, AirClean Energy offers you a dependable and knowledgeable single point of contact for your industrial boiler project. You won’t have the stress of dealing with numerous suppliers and figuring out how to make multiple components work together. Your package will be complete and seamlessly integrated into your process with service guaranteed.
Firetube Boilers
Firetube boilers are ideal for smaller hot water and steam applications requiring 15-1,500 boiler HP (500-50,000 lb/hr). These units have a typical operating pressure no higher than 300 psig. Firetube and watertube boilers are distinguished from one another by the arrangement of the heat transfer surfaces inside the boiler. For a firetube boiler, water fills the shell of the boiler and the hot gas produced by the burner travels through smaller tubes within the shell, allowing the heat to pass out of the ‘fire tubes’ and into the surrounding water. The gas will typically pass through the water-filled shell one to three times, called passes, depending on the boiler design, before exiting through the stack. The back wall of the boiler can be insulated with refractory (‘dry-wall’) or water-filled to improve efficiency (‘wet-wall’).
Watertube Boilers
Watertube boilers are engineered for high-pressure and high-capacity industrial applications requiring larger steam production. In a watertube design, water circulates inside the tubes while hot combustion gases travel around the exterior. This configuration allows for rapid steam generation, higher operating pressures, and optimal thermal performance across demanding manufacturing and power generation applications.
Heat Recovery Steam Generators (HRSG)
Heat Recovery Boilers capture high-temperature exhaust and waste heat streams from turbines, engines, or industrial furnaces, redirecting thermal energy back into steam generation. By recovering process energy that would otherwise escape through exhaust stacks, heat recovery boiler systems significantly reduce overall fuel consumption and lower greenhouse gas emissions.
Deaerators
Deaerator packages remove dissolved gases, primarily oxygen and carbon dioxide, from boiler feedwater prior to injection into the pressure vessel. Eliminating dissolved oxygen dramatically reduces internal corrosion and pitting, extending the operational life of boilers, steam headers, and condensate return piping.
Economizers
Economizers act as specialized heat exchangers placed directly in the boiler exhaust flue stream. By using residual flue gas energy to preheat incoming boiler feedwater, economizers boost overall plant fuel efficiency by up to 3% to 5%, lowering long-term operating costs and reducing thermal shock to the boiler shell.