Waste Combustors With Energy Recovery

Performance Test Codes

AN A MERICAN NA TIONAL S T AND ARD

ASME PTC 34-2017

(Revision of ASME PTC 34-2007)

ASME PTC 34-2017

(Revision of ASME PTC 34-2007)

Waste Combustors With Energy Recovery

Performance Test Codes

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Date of Issuance: March 20, 2017

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CONTENTS

Notice v

Foreword vi

Committee Roster vii

Correspondence With the PTC Committee viii

Introduction x

Mandatory Appendix

I Standard Radiation and Convection Loss Chart 87

Nonmandatory Appendices

1. Sample Calculation Procedures for Waste Combustors With

   Energy Recovery 89

2. Sample Uncertainty Calculations 99

3. Test Method for Determining Moisture, Combustible Content, and

   Heating Value of Residue From Municipal Solid Waste Combustors 113

4. References 115

NOTICE

All Performance Test Codes must adhere to the requirements of ASME PTC 1, General Instructions. 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 before starting the test, and preferably before signing the contract, the parties to a commercial test agree 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.

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 American National Standards Institute (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 were 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 of Standards and Technology (NIST)] developed, 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-as-a-calorimeter method covered by this test Code.

The 2007 edition of the 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. It was approved by ANSI as an American National Standard on April 12, 2007.

This update of PTC 34 does not include any significant philosophical or computational changes. It is more a clarification (i.e., we fixed typographical errors) of previously established procedures, and we added clarity and detail to aid the user in the determination of test uncertainty. It was approved by ANSI as an American National Standard on January 6, 2017.

ASME PTC COMMITTEE

Performance Test Codes

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

STANDARDS COMMITTEE OFFICERS

P. G. Albert, Chair

J. W. Milton, Vice Chair

F. Constantino, Secretary

P. G. Albert, Consultant

R. P. Allen, Consultant

J. M. Burns, Burns Engineering Services

A. E. Butler, GE Power & Water

W. C. Campbell, True North Consulting

STANDARDS COMMITTEE PERSONNEL

T. K. Kirkpatrick, McHale & Associates, Inc.

S. J. Korellis, Electric Power Research Institute

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

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

J. W. Milton, RRI Energy

F. Constantino, The American Society of Mechanical Engineers

J. W. Cuchens, Southern Company Services

M. J. Dooley, General Electric Co.

P. M. Gerhart, University of Evansville

J. Gonzalez, Iberdrola Ingenieria y Construccion, SAU

R. E. Henry, Sargent & Lundy

T. C. Heil, Alternate, Retired

R. Jorgensen, Consultant

D. R. Keyser, Survice Engineering

S. P. Nuspl, Consultant

R. E. Pearce, Kansas City Power & Light