The fact is the number one area of energy loss is the stack. Flue gases leaving the chimney above ambient temperature waste huge amounts of energy. You don’t have to try hard to get a feeling for the scale of problem facing the user. In every household there’s a hair dryer, usually rated at around…
Go greener and boost the efficiency of your boilerhouse with Spirax Sarco’s new quick step guide In the current economic and political environment, businesses are under increasing pressure to save on fuel costs and reduce their carbon footprint. Spirax Sarco has launched a new guide that will show you how to increase efficiency and productivity…
BS5410-2 Code of Practice for liquid fuel firing Part 2: Installations providing space heating, hot water and steam supply services to non-domestic buildings and para 6.3.3.1 Water treatment for industrial boilers contains the following statement: “Feed water for steam boilers should be pre-treated to ensure that it meets the quality limits set by the boiler…
The CEA I-GAS scheme provides a comprehensive qualification for Maintenance fitters, Technicians, Engineers and Designers of Industrial Gas Systems. People in factories often think they are exempt from the ‘Gas Safety (Installation and Use) Regulations 1998’ (GSIUR) but they are wrong, the paragraph in blue is key to helping people understand compliance with the regulations….
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…
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