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.
Westcountry keeps smoking with fulton boiler.
Fulton has supplied a 60J steam boiler to Westcountry Smoke house, who recently secured a contract to supply cooked duck, fish and ready meals for a supermarket chain.
Westcountry's existing facility was upgraded by installing a second processing line and, given the increased demand from both lines, a replacement boiler was installed that would not only cope with current demands, but also future-proof the company.
Says factory engineer Jeff Peters: "We were already using a Fulton electric boiler that had worked without issue since it was installed. We therefore had no hesitation in approaching them for this upgrade. Their knowledge of steam is second to none."
Fulton introduces new service and installation team
As part of the ongoing restructuring plans for its UK business, Fulton Limited has announced that, with immediate effect, a new Service & Installation Team will be available to deal with customer's requirements for small-scale steam boiler installations and retrofitting of its recently launched energy saving products including Modulating Burners, TDS Energy Recovery Systems and Economisers.
Commenting for Fulton Limited, managing director Paul Richards says: "The new team will ensure that customers ordering single boilers or additional ancillaries that don't have access to an installation service can draw on Fulton's extensive experience."
He goes on to say that Fulton is now a specialist designer and manufacturer of energy efficient products and ready-to-ship boiler plant rooms to customers in hospital and healthcare, food and beverage, laundry and other sectors; and has dedicated teams that can now offer sales and application advice, through to installation and full commissioning and after sales service.
For further information call Fulton on +44 (0)117 972 3322 or email
Fulton steam boiler packages future-proof nuffield health’s decontamination services
As part of a continuous improvement programme at its market-leading, off-site decontamination units serving its hospitals, Nuffield Health has recently installed Fulton skid-mounted steam boiler packages with remote monitoring capabilities at each of its off-site Decontamination Units in Wetherby, Stoke, Cambridge, Eastleigh, Tiverton and Warwick.
Each of the six sites contains a skid-mounted package consisting of three 60J boiler plus ancillaries and all eighteen boilers are being remotely monitored by an innovative Fulton-designed telemetry system, which complies with the current PGS2 standard. The system is capable of reporting critical alarm conditions such as primary and secondary low water, flame failure, high pressure and high water for each of the three dual-fuel 60J units per site, two of which are firing constantly with one on standby. The system also monitors signals from digital and analogue meters for gas, electric and water supplies and steam pressure. If a critical alarm condition is raised, the boilers will automatically shut down and the Fulton telemetry system will notify Nuffield site engineers via BT Redcare.
Fulton introduces new modulating burner.
Fulton has demonstrated its commitment to R&D and the environment by launching a new modulating burner, which uses a linkageless burner management system to operate two modulating actuators. One regulating the flow of gas and the other adjusting air flow to ensure that optimum combustion is possible across the full firing range of the boiler. To optimise combustion, each valve can adjusted by as little as 0.1º allowing small adjustments to be made to output.
Available as an option on all gas-fired vertical boilers in Fulton's range, including the J Series and new VMP multi-port tubeless steam boiler, the burner can also be retro-fitted to pre-installed boilers.
Initial results from a trial at Cardiff University indicate a significant reduction in gas consumption, with further savings being made on electricity. Thanks to the burners' modulation, the boiler is also more efficient as the steam pressure is kept at a more consistent rate.