Oil fired steam boiler or natural gas steam boiler

There are many kinds of industrial steam boilers, according to the fuel of industrial steam boiler, the oil fired steam boiler and gas fired steam boiler are most common. People always do not know should choose oil fired steam boiler and gas fired steam boiler, here we give you some suggestions.

If choose natural gas fired industrial steam boiler, we should make sure that we have enough fuel source supply and could layout the gas tubes. While choose oil fired boiler, we need to buy daily oil tank and buried tank, and design the suitable place, so that it’s convenient to supply the oil fired steam boiler.

The second, we need to think about boiler operation cost, which is related to the local fuel prices. In general, It cost 80CBM natural gas to produce 1 ton steam, if the gas price is 0.5USD/CBM, the operation cost of gas fired steam boiler is 40USD/ton; To product 1ton steam will cost 66kg light oil, then the operation cost will be 100USD/ton if the oil price is 1.5USD/kg. But nowadays, with reduction of international oil price, the operation cost of oil boiler will be lower than gas fired boiler?

However, each boiler has its advantages, such as the natural gas fired steam boiler with the energy saving and environmental features, the light oil fired steam boiler have the advantages of fuel storage and not affected by fuel supplier.

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