Ljungström air preheater

Ljungström air preheater is an air preheater invented by the Swedish engineer Fredrik Ljungström (1875-1964). The patent was achieved in 1930.[1]

Ljungström air preheater in cross section.

Even in a modern utility boiler provides up to 20 percent of the total heat transfer in the boiler process, but only represents 2 percent of the investment.[2]

The factory and workshop activities and laboratories in Lidingö would remain throughout the 1920s, with some 70 personnel. In the 1930s it was used a film studio, and was finally demolished in the 1970s to give space for new industry premises.

With Fredrik Ljungström's technology of the air preheater implemented in a vast amount of modern power stations around the world until this day with total attributed worldwide fuel savings estimated to 4,960,000,000 tons of oil, "few inventions have been as successful in saving fuel as the Ljungström Air Preheater".

In 1995, the Ljungström air preheater was distinguished as the 44th International Historic Mechanical Engineering Landmark by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.[3]


References
  1. Regenerative-heat-transmission apparatus, retrieved 2019-04-05
  2. "The Ljungström Air Preheater 1920. An International Historic Mechanical Engineering Landmark" (PDF) (PDF). Svenska Mekanisters Riksförening; American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-17. Retrieved 2009-01-10.
  3. "The Ljungström Air Preheater 1920". asme.org. American Society of Mechanical Engineers. June 21, 1995. Archived from the original on October 20, 2016. Retrieved February 20, 2018.
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