This Fulton one-day training course, accredited by City & Guilds of London, was introduced over three years ago and has to date satisfied the boiler operational training requirements of hundreds of clients including:
• University of East Anglia
• University of Leicester
• BAE Systems
• GE Healthcare
• Warburtons
Fulton states that the certified course bridges the gap between the more expensive courses – those that can cost many thousands of pounds per employee – and straightforward ‘toolbox’ training.
Carl Knight, managing director for Fulton Ltd, discusses why the regular maintenance and servicing of a steam boiler is so important.
In short, regular servicing and maintenance is essential to maintain the optimum operating efficiency and safety of boiler facilities; and ensure their long-term reliability.
However, a key issue that is often overlooked are the consequences of a boiler not being available due to maintenance or breakdown. Like any piece of equipment, a steam boiler will be more reliable when serviced on a regular basis and, fortunately, a minimum level of annual maintenance is needed due to the legal requirement of having the need to have your boiler inspected on an annual basis. Hopefully, this opportunity can also be used to undertake all routine service tasks, but it should be borne in mind that, depending on the level of use, a boiler may require more frequent maintenance and service inspections.
As part of £750,000 upgrade to its existing brewery equipment, Hampshire-based Triple FFF Brewery Company has installed a 60J gas-fired vertical steam boiler from Fulton Boiler Works.
The brewery was founded in 1997 and currently brews a number of real ales such as Moondance, Comfortably Numb, Pressed Rat and Warthog, Dazed & Confused andAlton’s Pride. It has also won over sixty industry awards including Best Beer Gold Award at the CAMRA beer festival and, more recently, Best Beer at the Southampton Beer Festival.
TheFulton60J, which has replaced Triple FFF’s existing electric boiler, is being used to supply heat for the real ale brewing process as well as steam for cleaning and sterilising kegs and process equipment.
Commenting for Triple FFF, managing director Graham Trott says: “Our aim is to brew ale that real ale drinkers will want to drink. By using steam from the Fulton 60J in the cleaning and sterilising process we can eliminate the chemicals that many ‘Craft Breweries’ use. We believe this improves the quality and taste of our beers and extends shelf life by up to six weeks.”
Fulton wins plant room order for Royal Berkshire and Battle Hospitals NHS Trust/Royal Berkshire Hospital Upgrade
Fulton Boiler Works has recently supplied a fully packaged, steam plant room as part of a £132 million upgrade to The Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust, which has involved the main buildings and wards ofBattleHospitalbeing demolished and moved to a new site.
The plant room, which is owned by The Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust and operated by Synergy Healthcare, is located on a retained section of the former Battle Hospital site in Reading and its three 50J gas-fired steam boilers provide steam to sterilise surgical and other instruments. It was designed, fully finished and pre-packaged atFulton’s factory and shipped to the Trust as part of a site redevelopment and boiler decentralisation project.Fultonwas able to use the latest CAD technology to integrate the plant room equipment and ensure that it was easily accessible within the space available.
Due to the need to increase steam capacity at its dairy processing facility, Devon-based cheese maker Quickes Traditional has decommissioned its existing boiler and installed a dual-fuel RBC steam boiler from Fulton Boiler Works.
The new boiler system, which complies with latest regulations governing the operation of continuous-running boilers, includes a down-rated RBC 750 with automatic main blowdown system, a BDV5 blowdown vessel with after cooler and high-integrity controls. It has also been fitted with a switch to reduce pressure in the boiler during periods of low usage. The new system was designed inBristolbyFulton’s own team of engineers and installed by Bridgwater-based VAS Engineering.
Manufactured as a horizontal extension to its vertical boilers,Fulton’s nine-model RBC range of wet back fire tube boilers has capacities from 957 to 4787 kg/h and boasts operating efficiencies in excess of 90% (nett C.V.). Developed in response to customer demand for higher capacities, the RBC range can be specified with matched multi-stage oil, modulating gas or dual-fuel burners as standard, with other burners available on request. They meet current and anticipated legislation and have been engineered to provide a substantial performance margin and are constructed to BS2790, 1992 Class 1 standard with a maximum working pressure of 10.34 bar.
In this article, Fulton Limited’s sales and marketing manager Carl Knight looks at water treatment for steam raising plant and the benefits of an effective water treatment programme.
Plant engineers use water for heat transfer because it’s abundant, cheap, easily stored and transported, has a high specific heat capacity and high latent heat of evaporation. But before water can be used for process applications, it must be treated to help prevent scale formation and corrosion in the boiler and to control the content of dissolved solids.
The water delivered by your local water board is treated to ensure that it is potable and free from harmful substances including bacteria. It typically contains 0.05 to 0.5% dissolved solids and can therefore be classified as 99.5% pure, but no guarantees are made regarding its suitability for process purposes, including the raising of steam. Preventing scale formation and corrosion in the boiler and controlling dissolved solids is therefore a crucially important consideration in a correctly designed water treatment programme.
However there are still many cases where steam boilers are becoming less efficient or even failing due to a lack of, or poorly applied, water treatment programme. Typically, scaling and corrosion can result in the mechanical failure of the boiler itself whilst foaming can contaminate the steam raised and have further consequences in the steam pipework and equipment. All of these factors have a common and predictable economic consequence, i.e. operating costs are increased.
So what should an engineer look for in a correctly designed water treatment programme?
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