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Flue gas
to chimney
Condenser
Fig. 11
A condenser ensures that all steam is condensed
before being pumped back into the deaerator and
then into the boiler. New treated water is normally
fed into the condenser.
Condensate Economizer
Fig. 10: Condenser
Deaerator
To ejector
Water outlet Steam vacuum system

Flanges
Baffle Baffle
Flue gas
from boiler
Steam

Boiler

Burner

Flanged Baffle
cover Tube sheet Tube sheet Fig. 12
Feed pump
plate
Water inlet Condensate

Economizer
Condensate
As mentioned earlier, the economizer is more or less the
same as an exhaust gas boiler except it doesn’t have its
Deaerator
own steam chamber but uses the one in the boiler.
exhaust
to funnel
Talking economizers, there are normally two
different ways of mounting depending whether it is
Steam
installed on a land-based or marine-based boiler.

Boiler
On the boiler located on land we use the boiler’s flue
Economiser/
gas as shown on the sketch. The water circulated exhaust
gas boiler
above the economizer is normally supplied by the Burner
main feed pump, but can also be fitted with its own
circulation pump, see Fig. 11 on the following page.
Feed pump
The chimney will also include a bypass to allow waste Circulation

gases to pass the heat exchanger. exhaust from

main engine

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