Pulaski, NY — Fulton Companies (www.fulton.com), the global manufacturer of steam, hydronic and thermal fluid heat transfer products and provider of innovative energy management solutions, has closed a deal in which it has acquired 100 percent of Costerm Swiss AG, a specialised industrial burner and engineering company based near Zurich, Switzerland.
“We are very pleased to have Costerm join the global Fulton family,” says Fulton Companies CFO Kevin LaMontagne. “Plans are in development to share R&D resources, use Costerm burners on large Fulton boilers, sell Fulton products through the Costerm sales office, and sell Costerm products through Fulton sales offices.”
The deal was completed on December 20th 2011.
Correctly Sizing a Steam Boiler-What do I need to know?
The correct selection of a steam boiler output is critical to its operation, efficiency and performance. If undersized for the system load, then steam pressure will rapidly decrease thus causing the boiler to collapse its steam space, in turn causing low water alarms and ultimately burner lockout.
To prevent this, the boiler needs to be matched correctly to the system steady state demand and any short-term peak demands that may occur. In short, ensure that the boiler is sized to the system’s worst case scenario!
To achieve optimum system steam supply to demand ratio, it is important to know what you’re trying to achieve. For example what you are heating, its mass and the temperature rise you require, over which timescales (i.e. how quickly do you need to heat your product?)
Recent Introductions Demonstrate Fulton's Commitment to R&D and the Environment
In a move to demonstrate its commitment to R&D and the environment, Fulton has introduced a number of energy saving products to its range.
The company’s new flue gas Economiser for its gas and dual-fuel-fired horizontal RBC boiler range can provide fuel savings of up to 5% and, in a typical installation, achieve payback in less than a year.
The Economiser operates in the same way as a heat exchanger. By capturing the waste heat inherent in flue gases and transferring it to the boiler feedwater, the feedwater temperature increases from approximately 85° to 120°. Because this takes place on the positive side of the feed pump, there is no cavitation effect and the flue gas energy does not have to be applied by the boiler. Depending on the steam application, the Economiser can either reduce the fuel consumption of a boiler at a given steam output or increase steam output for a given amount of fuel.
Fulton Steam Boilers Cut Cooking Time For Lyons Seafoods
Lyons Seafoods is one of the largest prawn and seafood processors in the UK, specialising in supplying the country’s leading supermarkets and food service groups with raw, freshly cooked, chilled, and frozen prawns and other speciality seafoods.
As part of a £3.5m expansion programme that has included the commissioning of a second processing line, the Warminster-based company has installed a fully packaged plant room from Fulton Boiler Works.
The plant room, which contains two dual-fuel RBC1250 boilers plus ancillary equipment, was manufactured at Fulton’s headquarters in Bristol and delivered to site as three modular skid mounted packages – one for each of the RBC1250 boilers and one for the ancillary equipment. The skids were then mounted onto a prepared concrete base, connected to site services and covered with a Quinshield composite housing.
Fulton Helps Create Stage Fright for Jeff Wayne’s War of the Worlds Musical
Fulton Boiler Works has supplied an Electric Flash Steam (EFS) boiler to Wiltshire-based special effects designers Back Stage Technologies, which is using steam to create simulated flames and light beams for Jeff Wayne’s live stage musical version of the sci-fi classic 'War of the Worlds'.
Back Stage Technologies (BSTE) specialises in repeatable special effects for theme parks, concerts and general entertainment applications and has received particular notoriety for its work in cryogenics and simulated flame systems.
Using specialist lighting effects with steam from Fulton’s modified 36kW EFS boiler, BSTE has created an effect that appears to fill the stage with flames. The special effects system is also used to create a ray gun effect that fires into the audience from a Martian fighting machine that it is lowered onto the stage during the performance.
The reconditioned boiler, which was originally a 48kW EFS, was heavily modified by Fulton to enable it to be taken on tour and used at venues with only a 36 amp 3-phase electrical supply. A regulator was also fitted to reduce pressure from 10 bar to just ½ bar and the boiler’s fourth element was adapted to be used for backup purposes.
Advanced plasma power stays with Fulton to triple steam power at its municipal solid waste energy from waste facility.
Bristol-based steam boiler specialist Fulton Limited has supplied Advanced Plasma Power (APP) with one of its Electropack EP60 steam boilers, which has almost tripled the steam capacity at the company's Swindon-based Gasplasma® test facility.
Founded in 2005 to commercialise its internationally patented Gasplasma® technology, APP now claims to offer the optimum solution for converting municipal solid waste into clean, local energy – with minimal emissions and virtually no residues sent to landfill. The Swindon plant, which is essentially a smaller version of the commercial plants APP offers, is a test facility built to evaluate different types of wastes supplied by clients from various countries to optimise the Gasplasma® process and, subsequently, the viability of a plant for that specific location.