Hot Water Fed Boiler

Basics

• A Boiler / Steam Generator that uses a building's Hot Water supply as it's Feedwater
• Thus much of the work is done already, and in the case of CHP and Solar Thermal Water Heaters / Hybrid Solar Panels it is "free"
• Thus lower grade heat can be "upgraded" to a form usable in Thermal Storage systems such as Saturated Water Storage , and in Steam Engines / Steam Turbines *(Along with other more niche uses such as cleaning, sterilization, or, Steam Pretreatment of Biomass etc
• It would require more fuel / investment in heat generating machinery (more solar thermal etc), but would increase LCOS via more accessible and scalable options, as well as "upgrading" existing resources (the "waste heat" / Excess Stored Hot Water (or Hot Working Fluid in an Indirect Solar Thermal / Indirect CHP System )

Variants

• Probably make a proper genealogy page if this goes anywhere
• Solar Thermal Hot Water Fed Boiler
• Solar Hot Water Fed Steam Superheater
• Gas Fueled Thermal Hot Water Fed Boiler
• Gas Fueled Hot Water Fed Steam Superheater
• Pellet Fed Thermal Hot Water Fed Boiler
• Pellet Fed Hot Water Fed Steam Superheater
• Electric Hot Water Fed Boiler
• Electric Hot Water Fed Superheater

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