Optimize Process Performance with Precise Airflow Measurement from Air Monitor
To improve efficiency and achieve optimal process performance, various industrial equipment such as boilers, furnaces, regenerative thermal oxidizers (RTOs), burners must have an optimal air-to-fuel ratio. Measuring airflow is critical to determining this ratio and optimizing combustion. Over time, an optimized system will also result in lower maintenance costs. Plant managers rely on instrumentation such as Combustion Technology ad Air Monitor's expert application engineers to find the best solutions for improving combustion process efficiency.
Applications Requiring Precise Measurement of Combustion Airflow:
Industrial Boilers and Package Boilers Fueled by Natural Gas
Although natural gas processes burn cleaner than other fuel types, these boilers still encounter particulate-laden airflows and may be subject to emissions regulations when exhausting to the atmosphere. These boilers frequently lack accurate instrumentation for measuring air and natural gas combustion flow to optimize the air-to-fuel ratio.
Power, Biomass, and Recovery Boilers
Whatever fuel is used to power the boiler, measuring the airflow into the combustion chamber is required to calculate the ideal air-to-fuel ratio. A system that is either too lean or too rich causes performance or cost issues. Another cause for emissions problems is poor burner design or poor combustion in boilers. Stop dealing with underperforming boilers and fix the incomplete combustion with an Air Monitor airflow measurement solution.
Heaters, Furnaces, Ovens, and Kilns
The industrial sector relies on heat from various sourced burner equipment to perform essential process functions, whether for ceramics and glass or annealing and de-binding. Fuel costs can become prohibitively expensive in some processes that necessitate incredibly high temperatures. Using airflow measurement devices to optimize the combustion of burner equipment will reduce operating costs by increasing efficiencies and improving emissions.
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UL508 Industrial Panel Shop Serving The Pacific Northwest
In the United States, UL 508A is the technical standard for Industrial Control Panels and is directs the design and construction of the industrial control panel. UL 508A control panels enable industrial systems to achieve data security while also preventing electrical risks. Electrical inspectors look for this mark as proof of third-party certification. Municipalities, government agencies, regulating bodies, and the panel purchaser all care about this. It's a symbol that demonstrates the panel's adherence to approved safety requirements. Engineers certified following the UL 508A standard advise their clients on how to create UL-compliant products. They also collaborate with them to create a worldwide design that eliminates the need for unnecessary or less-safe variations.
Combustion Technology, LLC is a UL508 approved panel designer and fabricator serving the Pacific Northwestern United states.
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Combustion Technology Engineering and Support Services
Combustion Technology understands the importance of your burners and industrial heating equipment to your company. As a result, we prioritize assisting our customers in restoring their industrial burners and combustion systems to peak performance. It all starts with our goal of providing prompt service. Our service professionals and mechanics, many of whom have decades of experience, can troubleshoot even the most complex issues you may be having with your industrial burner. Our goal is to give our customers a burner or combustion system solution that eliminates future operational problems. We provide preventive maintenance services to guarantee that your combustion system or burner continues to run smoothly.
Field professionals from Combustion Technology are ready to help you with precision work, competence, and experience. Our highly trained field personnel will troubleshoot burner systems, repair and combustion system calibration, and code compliance. Our engineering and service teams will work with you to establish effective maintenance programs for your combustion and process heating systems, allowing you to get the most out of them.
UL 508 A Control Panels and Custom Control Systems
Industrial control panels manufactured by Combustion Technology are UL 508 certified. In the United States, the technical standard for industrial control panels is UL 508A. It applies to industrial control panels designed for broad industrial usage and wired for voltages of 1000 volts or less and their installation in common areas.
As a UL 508 control panel company, Combustion Technology will design a control panel to match your performance and budgetary requirements. Our professionals have over three decades of experience and are up to date on the latest technology.
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Improved Safety and Performance with Direct Coupled Gas Valve/Actuator Assemblies
Historically linkages are more common than direct coupled actuators. Control actuators were usually foot-mounted. A foot-mounted actuator has the mounting surface on the bottom and the drive shaft coming out the side. This arrangement invites linkage-type control. An example is a four-bar linkage. If any of these bar lengths are changed, it will affect the range and characteristics of the control valve. There are usually six security points in this configuration: actuator to crank arm, crank arm to swivel head, swivel head to linkage rod, and then double all of those for the valve side.
The actuator secured to the valve is critical to safe operation. The actuator becoming disengaged from the control valve is a significant safety concern. There is confidence in the crank arms' security and is considered a positive connection. The swivel heads are less secure. Typically the swivel head is clamped or presses a set screw into the linkage rod. Under conditions of vibration or varied temperature causing expansion and contraction, these connections come loose. Because of this hazard with linkage, you'll occasionally see a position switch connected directly to the valve to verify the valve position.
Because the connections of a linkage are not rigid, there is a problem with hysteresis. The least rigid connections are the swivel connections. The actuator will push on the swivel head when driving open and pull on the swivel head when driving closed. There will be two different valve positions based on the direction hysteresis is created for a given control signal. Why is this important? Hysteresis hurts emissions efficiency and temperature control.
More recent control actuator designs are face-mounted. These newer designs make the mounting surface and the drive shaft on the same plane with the mounting face actuator shaft and valve shaft in line. Direct coupling the actuator to the valve is an improved design.
For direct-coupled control, the stroke of the actuator equals the stroke of the valve. To adjust the stroke of the actuator, change the cams located under the cover to limit the stroke. The concept of cam adjustments in the actuator is commonplace for a direct-coupled arrangement.
There are just two secure connection points with direct-coupled: actuator to coupling and coupling to the valve. When done correctly, both of these points are positive connections. The machining of the actuator side of the coupling is commonly an irregular shape that doesn't allow the actuator shaft to rotate inside the coupling. On the valve side, a pin bolt goes through the coupling and the valve shaft. You can be more confident in a secure connection with a direct-coupled arrangement.
The inline connection of the actuator driveshaft and the valve shaft with a positively connected coupling eliminates linkage hysteresis. The coupling is a rigid piece that directly transfers the actuator movement to the valve movement, providing precise control which assists emissions requirements, optimizes efficiency, and facilitates high-performance temperature control.
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Top 5 Gas Flow Meter Selection Criteria
The first and most important feature is that the flow meter is simple to set up and operate.
Nobody enjoys complexities, and your facilities manager is no exception. Choose a simple flow meter to install, requiring little maintenance and not requiring any additional calculations. Make that the flow meter can connect with your DCS, PLC, or control system without difficulty. Knowing that the flow meter has the appropriate certifications for usage in dangerous regions is reassuring and a requirement!
Flow meter precision is the second most important feature.
Who knows what's going on behind the scenes in the pipes? As a result, you'll need a measurement instrument to correctly measure the flow in the pipes and provide you with a window into your process. Have high expectations for the process's correctness across the whole spectrum of operation, whether at high or low flow rates.
Flow meter field flexibility is the third key feature.
Flow meters with limited flexibility that require a return authorization to the manufacturer's factory for modification or recalibration are causing you downtime. Select a full-featured flow technology that allows the user to make adjustments or confirm accuracy in the field. These flow meters will keep you in control of your process and help you prevent downtime.
Flow meter cost-effectiveness is the fourth key feature.
Do your homework and acquire several quotations. Some technologies promise the moon and stars, but the price tag may be prohibitive.
Flow meter reliability is the fifth key feature.
Choose a flow meter that can accurately measure flow over time with minimal effort. The bottom line is that you want to be able to rely on the readings from your flow meter without needing to perform routine maintenance or recalibrations.
Selas Heat Technology Company Combustion Technology and Heating Product Catalog
Selas industrial burners incorporate innovative combustion technology to ensure maximum performance and process efficiency. Selas remains the best choice for value, reliability, and performance with a wide variety of reliable burners and complete industrial combustion systems.
Selas products are used worldwide in numerous industries where heating products are critical to manufacturing goods. You will find Selas burners in automotive, food, petrochemical, metal, paper, forest products, aggregate, glass, and plastics manufacturing.
These industries require reliable burners for applications such as preheating, heat treating, annealing and tempering, melting, surface coating and modification, brazing, drying, finishing, baking and searing, and many more.
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