Design and development of an ARM platform based embedded system for measurement of boiler efficiency

Boiler is an integral component of any process industry. The boiler efficiency probably degrades due to bad operation and lack of maintenance. So, performance analysis of the boiler has to be carried out regularly. Performance of a boiler is measured in terms of efficiency. Efficiency is one of the important parameters of a boiler, which gives information about its operating condition, heat generation from it and heat loss. Real time monitoring of efficiency helps an operator to know the boiler efficiency continuously. Real time measurement of efficiency would help in evaluating the performance of the boiler, which is necessary for taking energy conservation action in industry. This paper presents design and development of an embedded system, based on Advanced Reduced Instruction Set Computing Machine (ARM) platform to monitor the efficiency using input-output method. The developed system is tested using the technical data of a thermal power station.