Waste Combustors With Energy Recovery

Performance Test Codes

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ASME PTC 34-2007

Waste Combustors With Energy Recovery

Performance Test Codes

AN AMERICAN NA TIONAL S T AND ARD

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Date of Issuance: February 29, 2008

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CONTENTS

Notice v

Foreword vi

Committee Roster vii

Correspondence With the PTC 34 Committee viii

Introduction ix

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Mandatory Appendix

I Standard Radiation and Convection Loss Chart 85

Nonmandatory Appendices

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NOTICE

All Performance Test Codes must adhere to the requirements of ASME PTC 1, General Instruc- tions. The following information is based on that document and is included here for emphasis and for the convenience of the user of the Code. It is expected that the Code user is fully cognizant of Sections 1 and 3 of ASME PTC 1 and has read them prior to applying this Code.

ASME Performance Test Codes provide test procedures that yield results of the highest level of accuracy consistent with the best engineering knowledge and practice currently available. They were developed by balanced committees representing all concerned interests and specify procedures, instrumentation, equipment-operating requirements, calculation methods, and uncer- tainty analysis.

When tests are run in accordance with a Code, the test results themselves, without adjustment for uncertainty, yield the best available indication of the actual performance of the tested equip- ment. ASME Performance Test Codes do not specify means to compare those results to contractual guarantees. Therefore, it is recommended that the parties to a commercial test agree before starting the test and preferably before signing the contract on the method to be used for comparing the test results to the contractual guarantees. It is beyond the scope of any Code to determine or interpret how such comparisons shall be made.

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FOREWORD

In 1966, the ASME Performance Test Code committee recognized the need for a Performance Test Code for Large Incinerators. A Committee was formed in 1967 and charged with the task of developing a comprehensive Test Code for Large Incinerators; a task to be followed by a Short Form Test Procedure. This Committee was officially designated as PTC Committee 33 Large Incinerators. At the time of its issue, PTC 33 represented the highest state of the art in incinerator testing. It was submitted to industry for trial use and comment in 1977. PTC 33 was approved by the Performance Test Codes Supervisory Committee on June 30, 1978 and was approved as an American National Standard by the ANSI Board of Standards Review on December 6, 1978. PTC 34 was formed in 1988 as a follow-up to PTC 33. PTC 33 was essentially a procedure for determining combustion efficiency and waste capacity and did not address units with energy recovery. At that time, it was recognized that the procedures for sampling tons of a heterogeneous material was unrealistic and impractical as a key element of a waste combustion performance test. At the urging of the ASME Research Committee on Industrial and Municipal Waste, the

U.S. Bureau of Standards [now the National Institute Standards and Technology (NIST)] devel- oped, over a period of about 10 years, a larger calorimeter but concluded that the larger one was not much better than the smaller one because of the sampling dilemma. This provided the incentive to pursue the Boiler-Calorimeter Method covered by this test code.

This Code was approved by the PTC 34 Committee on January 9, 2007 and by the Performance Test Codes Standards Committee on January 9, 2007. It was then approved and adopted by the Council as a Standard practice of the Society by action of the Board on Standardization and Testing on February 20, 2007. This Performance Test Code was approved by ANSI as an American National Standard on April 12, 2007.

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ASME PTC COMMITTEE

Performance Test Codes

(The following is the roster of the Committee at the time of approval of this Standard.)

STANDARDS COMMITTEE OFFICERS

J. G. Yost, Chair

J. R. Friedman, Vice Chair

J. H. Karian, Secretary

P. G. Albert, General Electric Co.

R. P. Allen, Consultant

J. M. Burns, Burns Engineering

W. C. Campbell, Southern Company Services

M. J. Dooley, Alstom Power

A. J. Egli, Alstom Power

J. R. Friedman, Siemens Power Generation, Inc.

G. J. Gerber, Consultant

P. M. Gerhart, University of Evansville

R. A. Johnson, Safe Harbor Water Power Corp.

T. C. Heil, The Babcock & Wilcox Co.

STANDARDS COMMITTEE PERSONNEL

S. J. Korellis, Dynegy Generation

M. P. McHale, McHale & Associates, Inc.

P. M. McHale, McHale & Associates, Inc.

J. W. Milton, Reliant Energy

S. P. Nuspl, The Babcock & Wilcox Co.

A. L. Plumley, Plumley Associates

R. R. Priestley, General Electric

J. A. Rabensteine, Environmental Systems Corp.

J. W. Siegmund, Sheppard T. Powell Associates LLC

J. A. Silvaggio, Jr., Turbomachinery, Inc.

W. G. Steele, Jr., Mississippi State University

J. C. Westcott, Mustan Corp.

J. H. Karian, The American Society of Mechanical Engineers

D. R. Keyser, Survice Engineering

W. C. Wood, Duke Power Co.

J. G. Yost, Airtricity, Inc.

PTC 34 COMMITTEE — WASTE COMBUSTORS WITH ENERGY RECOVERY

S. A. Scavuzzo, Chair, The Babcock & Wilcox Co.

R. J. Briggs, Vice Chair, Florida Power and Light Co.

J. H. Karian, Secretary, The American Society of Mechanical Engineers

S. G. Deduck, Covanta Energy, Inc.

L. M. Grillo, Grillo Engineering Co.

H. I. Hollander, Consultant

J. M. Yanok, Washington Division — URS Corp.

SPECIAL NOTE

The Committee acknowledges, with appreciation, the contribution to the development of this Code by former members Roger S. Hecklinger, who chaired the Committee during most of its existence, Frank Hamlyn, and Robert

E. Sommerlad (Member Emeritus of the PTC Standards Committee).

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CORRESPONDENCE WITH THE PTC 34 COMMITTEE

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Secretary, PTC 34 Standards Committee

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