Results obtained using both Eqs. (5) and (14) demonstrated a very good agreement between the complete thermal analysis and the simplified one. It is for this reason the Eq. (14) was included in the recommended simplified Bagasse-boiler Industrial Test Code, and also included in the computer code used to optimize the boiler operational regime, with the only measurement of the steam power to determine this heat loss.
Considering the physical influence of the fixed carbon lossðq4Þon the remaining heat losses (q2 and q3), it must be the first of all the heat losses to be evaluated in the efficiency calculation. For the terms inside the brackets in Eq. (4), experimental measurements during the tests performed demonstrated the validity of the following inequality