CHRISTMAS LAYUP PROCEDURE FOR YOUR BOILERS With many businesses closing for Christmas, Byworth’s Chief Technician, David Tilleard, discusses how to prepare a boiler for short term storage. David reports: “A boiler left idle for an extended period of time is likely to suffer corrosion as the normally low levels of oxygen scavenger are depleted. Any…
The Camberley plant is a large commercial laundry part of the CLEAN group of laundries. This plant processes up to one million pieces of linen per week on a two shift/7 day per week operation. For Clean Camberly, the use of and RO plant and injection of amine is very successful. The boilers have stayed…
It’s quite common in boilers with base-exchange water softeners, the effects are worsened by having hard water and/or high make-up rates. If you have a base-exchange softener the scale forming calcium is taken out but the carbonate remains, this doesn’t harm the boiler but instead breaks down to form CO2. This CO2 leaves the…
Take a look at this video which was the subject of the CEA’s David Gunn Memorial Lecture, 19th October 2017, delivered in the House of Lords by Chip Rennie – Director, Global Industrial Energy Solutions. Whilst explaining “The “Art” of Combustion – Then and Now” Chip talked about the previous technologies of controlling fuel and air ratios…
Could you be part of the team? The Boiler Operation Accreditation Scheme has been running for over 12 years now and is in a significantly enhanced and ‘steady state’ of operation after seeing over 3330 successful candidates pass through the scheme up to September 2017. But what makes a successful training and assessment scheme? One…
A factory worker has died and two others left in a stable condition following an explosion at a recycling plant in Oldbury, Birmingham. The man, in his 50s, suffered very serious burns in the explosion, in the early hours of Monday 7th August. Sadly he later died from his injuries. Two other workers in their 30s…
Fully manned A competent boiler operator in the boilerhouse whilst the boilers are operating. Local manning A competent boiler operator on site whilst the boilers are operating. Must be within earshot of alarms and able to attend within 7 minutes. Unmanned (level 1) A competent boiler operator must attend the boilers on a daily basis….
The announcement by the National Grid that no coal-fired power was produced in Britain yesterday has been widely covered in today’s national news. BBC TV showed the National Grid “meter” with coal at zero. This has been seen as a triumphant step on the way to meeting our climate change obligations. What has NOT been highlighted…
After 3 years acting as Vice Chairman for the CEA, Adrian Rhodes becomes the official Chairman. Taking place at the association’s AGM on Thursday 16th March 2017 which is held in the House of Lords, Adrian’s predecessor, Derry Carr stepped down from his role as Chairman and fondly reminisced about his last three years in the…
Spirax-Sarco Engineering plc (Spirax Sarco), which specialises in the control and efficient use of steam, and in peristaltic pumping and associated fluid path technologies, announces that it has signed a conditional sale and purchase agreement to acquire Gestra AG and associated businesses (Gestra) from Flowserve Corporation for a cash-free, debt-free consideration of €186 million (£160…
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