Now the problems of heat supply are being successfully solved thanks to the use of autonomous sources of thermal energy, which is of particular relevance for enterprises with small production capacities. Such sources, of course, can serve as boiler plants. They are also highly efficient in the heat supply of residential buildings. Modern boiler plants are a high-tech complex of special equipment designed for heating structures of any scale and orientation.
Despite the huge selection of types and modifications of such devices, almost all of them have identical basic units, which include the following: operational hopper, transport fuel supply device with a metering device (airlock), gas generator, boiler, controller-programmer, special fuel humidification system .
Boiler plants can operate on a wide variety of types of liquid (waste oil, diesel or fuel oil), gaseous and solid fuels, as well as electricity. This is the undeniable advantage of such systems. Today, two technologies are actively used for heating - autonomous heat supply and centralized. In Russia, for example, the most common is the centralized supply of thermal energy from the CHPP, which accounts for about eighty percent of the urban housing funds.
Heating plants and large industrial enterprises, as a rule, have several powerful boiler plants, for which standby capacities are necessarily provided, united by a single supply line and steam pipe, which allows repair work and maintenance without stopping the boiler plants and without reducing the amount of heat energy generated by them.
A serious drawback of a centralized heating system is the wear of heating mains, which sometimes leads to losses of up to 20% of energy, as well as costly and time-consuming installation of boiler equipment. This explains the recent steady trend towards the introduction of autonomous heat supply technologies.
Block-modular boiler plants designed for heat supply to one or a small group of consumers can significantly optimize energy losses and avoid coolant leaks, which often occur due to accidents of conventional centralized heating networks.
This type of boiler plants can be equipped with a wide variety of equipment (taking into account the specifics of the object). And the installation of this type of boiler plants is also not difficult, since they consist of separate modules and sandwich panels (blocks) of the external fencing, easily assembled into a single design. Therefore, block-type boiler rooms do not even require a separate room and can be used almost in the field. Another advantage of block-modular boiler plants is the relative ease of their transportation, due to the small size and low weight of the components (modules).