PAPER INDUSTRY GAS LINE FLOW METER APPLICATIONS
Thermal mass flow meters are used in a variety of applications in the pulp and paper industry, including Combustion control, compressed air monitoring and greenhouse gas emission reporting.
Combustion Control
An important way to reduce energy consumption in the paper production environment is to optimize combustion control in industrial boilers. Combustion efficiency and energy management is achieved through accurate and repeatable measurement of gases.
By monitoring the air and fuel ratios to the burners, the optimum air-to-fuel ratio is achieved, resulting in significant reductions in fuel gas cost, improved process efficiency.
Thermal mass flow meters are ideal for measuring both natural gas flow and combustion air flow in combustion processes. Since mass flow can be measured directly, there is no need for the pressure and temperature compensation required in gases. Flow rate can be measured directly in Nm3/h or kg/h without compensation.
Compressed Air Control
When measuring compressed air, controlling excessive air consumption is a regulatory practice to achieve significant savings in energy consumption. In this way, the consumption of units can also be controlled. It also allows leakage control to be carried out. It is generally known that it is common for 25% to 40% of compressed air to leak in uncontrolled systems.
In the paper industry, thermal mass flow meters are ideal for many applications such as combustion control.
GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS
Facilities emitting 25,000 metric tons of CO2e per year are required by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to report annual emissions according to EPA 40 CFR Part 98.
Thermal mass flow meters are certified for use in Carbon Credit applications. They provide a reliable solution to measure, monitor and control gas mass flow for a variety of environmental applications.
A carbon credit is a tradable certificate or permit that represents the right to emit a certain amount of carbon dioxide or an equivalent amount of a different greenhouse gas (tCO2e).
A carbon credit represents the right to emit one ton of carbon dioxide or one ton of greenhouse gases, which is carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e).
Each greenhouse gas has a different capacity to warm the atmosphere. Methane has a capacity of 21. So each ton of methane has a warming potential equivalent to 21 tons of Co2 (this is called CO2 equivalent). Carbon credits can thus be generated through methane combustion. When using biogas as fuel, not only renewable energy is produced, but also carbon credits through methane destruction.
