Energy Efficiency and Industrial Boiler Efficiency

Energy efficiency for industrial boilers is a highly boiler specific characteristic.  No two boilers are alike.  There are two identically designed, constructed side by side, stoker fired boilers in Indiana burning the same fuel that have very different performance characteristics.  Like twin teenagers, they are not the same.  Consideration of energy efficiency for industrial boilers, more often than not, is simplified and categorized to a one-size-fits-all approach.  Just as when considering teenagers, this does not work.  While everyone would like to believe their teenager is gifted and talented and in the 80th percentile of the population, we know that is not necessarily the case.  We also know, as for boilers, the average teenager is not representative of a widely diversified population.  If you think it is, ask any parent with teenagers or an industrial boiler operator.  While the variables associated with energy efficiency are more limited than those associated with a teenager, they are in no way any less complicated.