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We are often involved in Design Consulting, primarily for End Users, but also occasionally for Engineering Firms that require a high degree of integration with an existing Combustion System. An excellent example of this involves the installation of Emissions Controls on an existing Furnace - where the requirement was to deliver consistent Products of Combustion to the Scrubbing Equipment without affecting the Furnace operation. We also offer our years of experience with Heavy Oil to those contemplating firing a process with this very difficult fuel. Most of our Design Consulting work on existing processes is in the Ceramic and Barrel Reconditioning Industries. Seemingly on opposite ends of the spectrum insofar as the level of control precision and range is concerned, they both yield spectacularly to installation of well integrated Control Systems. We offer the benefit of our years of experience with starting up equipment in extremely difficult circumstances for the purpose of avoiding the problems that make the Commissioning cost almost as much as the equipment. We have seen it all (or most of it, anyway), and invariably the cost of properly inspecting and correcting problems before they are built and shipped to the field would have been paid back with an absolutely whopping interest dividend. Many design problems that we have been called in to deal with in the field could have been prevented before leaving the Drawing Boards. Is the site 50 or 60 Hz operation? What kinda plugs to they have there? Is that cable capable of passing the required signal at 1000'? Should the electronics be conformally coated it they are expected to work for more than a month in a Tropical environment? Do these Regulators work well with dirty fuels? What sort of environmental issues exist - Tropical? Arctic? Dry? Is that insulation rated for the environment? Will a $100.00 Connector save $10,000.00 in the field? Are gaseous fuels legal for industrial use in that country? NPT threads in Developing Countries? Hazardous Service? Those are just a few of the questions we have found ourselves dealing with - and it isn't hard to imagine that some of them cost a great deal by the time the equipment was in the field, bolted down, and wired. And these costs weren't strictly monetary - we have found ourselves rushing to sites to remediate equipment that was being loaded back onto the trucks both in the U.S. and overseas. If you are faced with integrating a combustion process with your project we would be pleased to help you prevent problems before they become critical. Links to a few examples are provided below; Palex Consolidated Container Acme Barrel Chester Engineers Kentwood Brick Products |
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