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The Fabricated Type J or K Grounded Thermocouple has a stainless steel tube and available in various lengths and has the junction grounded at the tip for a fast response. Each thermocouple has 2 metres of IEC glass fibre stainless steel over braided cable terminating in bare tails. The probe has a temperature range of -60 to +350°C.

The latest process gas burner technology from Lanemark Combustion Engineering Ltd. is now helping one of the country’s leading manufacturers of construction equipment to benefit from optimised energy usage and minimised emissions. 

Warwickshire-based Thwaites Ltd., who provide a wide range of dumper truck designs particularly to the construction industry, have replaced two well-proven existing Lanemark FD5EP-3 burner installations with the company’s latest force-draught gas and air FD5GAP-3 models.  The result is a combination of excellent heat control and an anticipated, significant saving in gas usage. 

Riello RX premix packaged burners are available in outputs up to 3MW, offering NOx levels of less than 40mg/kWh, with high turndown ratios of up to 8:1.

The main differences between traditional pressure jet burners and premix burners relate to the ways in which the air and gas is mixed and in the technology of the combustion head.

In traditional pressure jet burners, the gas and the combustion air are mixed at the point of ignition on the end of the combustion head in the space available in the combustion chamber (diffusive flame).

In this article, Fulton’s aftercare and business development manager Jeff Byrne takes a look at technical boiler house risk assessments, from their legalities to the potential savings that can be achieved.

It is strongly advised that all companies with a steam boiler have a technical risk assessment in place for its boilers and boiler house. It is required by law under the Management of Health & Safety at Work Regulations 1999 and is necessary to comply with the requirements of SAFed document BG01, HSE INDG 436 and HSE INDG 417 Rev1, under which steam or hot water plant should be operated.

Martin Thirsk, Managing Director of Energy Technology and Control – global leaders in the design and development of combustion controls and burner control technology – explains how effective combustion control can reduce emissions by up to 10% each year, saving industrial burner operators thousands in energy costs. 

The facts 

Typically, combustion of 1m3 of Natural gas in an industrial boiler produces 2.03kg of C02, and 1 kWh of electricity generated in a gas fired power station produces 0.420kg of C02. 

Condition monitoring specialists SENSONICS offer an extensive range of PROXIMITY SENSORS which includes their fully integrated PRI SERIES which build upon the success of their established Senturion proximity probe range.

The innovative PRI Series is a single probe assembly solution featuring direct processed outputs which eliminates the need for a separate driver. The benefits are a more cost-efficient and easy-to-install solution as there is no driver, extension cable or associated driver housing, so capital and installation costs are kept to an absolute minimum. 

The Schaeffler OPTIME condition monitoring system was only presented to the market just a few months ago and now has won the Industry 4.0 Innovation-Award.

This confirms the automotive and industrial supplier’s ambition to shape progress that moves the world. VDE Verlag is presenting the award for the fifth time and in collaboration with the German Electrical and Electronic Manufacturers’ Association (ZVEI) as well as the Standardization Council Industry 4.0. Products and innovations that make a valuable or substantial contribution in connection with Industry 4.0 are eligible for participation in the award.

With Industry 4.0 making it easier to drive operational efficiencies with wireless cellular connectivity, Alfa Laval is introducing the Alfa Laval CM, a condition monitoring system for rotating equipment, to its portfolio of sensing and control products. The new CM is another step forward in a digital transformation journey that Alfa Laval is pioneering with customers to harness the power of digital data for the hygienic processing industries.

Highland Spring Group is the largest producer of naturally sourced bottled water in the UK. They operate with highly critical assets throughout their manufacturing plants, including blow moulders, rinsers, fillers and labellers. If one of these assets goes down, production comes to a halt. Therefore, it is key that the health and condition of these assets is continuously monitored and maintained to the highest standard, to ensure that assets run to their optimum and unexpected shutdowns are prevented. 

Highland Spring Group selected AVT Reliability® to assist them with their condition monitoring (CM) journey on line 4 at the Blackford site in Perthshire, Scotland. The line produces a total 119,000 plastic bottles of water per hour, in sizes ranging from 0.5 to 1.5 litres. 

Faraday Predictive provide systems that take a new approach to condition monitoring, effectively combining vibration monitoring with electrical monitoring and energy monitoring to give a very powerful range of capabilities all in the same unit. 

Because their technology uses the electric motor driving the machine as a sensor, the only measurements required are taken in the electrical switchgear, which means that inaccessible equipment can be monitored just as easily as anything else.  It also means the system can give you information on energy consumption, and how much this machine costs in electricity to run over the year, together with an indication of how much extra energy is being used because of developing problems within the machine – see image.