Established in 1974, Truck Trye Specialists has a reputation for providing premium bead-to-bead (hot cure) and procure (cold cure) remould tyres with over 100 tread patterns to suit all relevant commercial vehicle operations. Its products are manufactured using the highest-grade rubber compounds available and have a proven track record of improving mileage, traction and fuel efficiency, equalling and even outperforming tyres from established brands.
With a five-yearly NDT inspection due on its ageing horizontal steam boiler within 18 months, and given past experiences, there was a very real prospect of it requiring major coded pressure vessel repairs again. Truck Tyre therefore needed to find a replacement solution that could cope with current and future demands, while ensuring its Net Zero commitments – already established thanks to existing recycling procedures, upgrades to facility insulation and the installation of roof-mounted PV panels – weren’t compromised.
Claimed to be the most radical change to vertical steam boiler design since it first pioneered the vertical tubeless boiler in 1949, Fulton’s VSRT has rocked the steam boiler market since its launch in 2018 to become class-leading and a symbol of efficiency, with many users benefitting from generous savings in gas and water consumption in addition to CO2 and NOX emissions.
At launch, the seven-model VSRT range was available with outputs from 160 to 960 kg/h, but with demand increasing for an energy efficient boiler with larger outputs like those of horizontal reverse-flame steam boilers, Fulton is now expanding the range and introducing two new re-designed VSRT models with outputs of 1565 and 1956 kg/h.
Like at the recent show in Liverpool, at Foodex in April we will be promoting how our class-leading fuel-fired and electric steam boilers and portfolio of aftercare solutions can help you with your decarbonisation strategy and put your company on the Road to Net Zero.
While Fulton will continue to promote the many features and benefits of its Classic and award-winning VSRT vertical steam boilers the company will, at a time when fuel costs are soaring and efficiency is vital to an organisation’s on-going strategy, also be promoting its range of electric steam boilers.
In this article, Carl Knight – managing director of process steam and heat transfer specialist Fulton – looks at the advantages of electric steam boilers versus their traditional fuel-fired counterparts.
Making steam with an electric boiler
Electric steam boilers work in a very similar way to fuel-fired boilers except in the way that the water is heated.
The process of creating steam with an electric boiler is a relatively straightforward one. Electricity is passed through a heating element that acts as a resistor to create heat through resistance. Water from the feedtank is then pumped into the pressure vessel, heating the water enough to boil and become saturated steam at (depending upon the pressure setting controller) typically between 6 and 10 Barg, at which point the saturated steam is available to the process.
The University of East Anglia (UEA) is no stranger to steam boilers from Fulton having been using the heat transfer specialist’s solutions for many years. But having replaced their ageing plant with new VSRT boilers, even they were surprised at just how efficient the installation would prove!
With steam being essential to the University and used extensively for humidification purposes – to ensure that the appropriate environmental conditions of 55% to 65% RH are maintained – and for the autoclaving of equipment and waste, any installation needed a form of redundancy in place from the outset.
In this article, Fulton’s Leigh Bryan looks at the strategies available to lessen the impact of boiler plant downtime and breakdowns and considers the impact of national and global supply chain issues.
Ask any engineer what the ideal steam boiler setup is to cover breakdowns and scheduled maintenance and they’ll tell you it’s simple, employ an N+1 (spare boiler) strategy, where you always have one boiler available as a spare to operate as backup.
However, this is not always practical. Common reasons include footprint issues, where there just isn’t enough room available to fit the extra equipment into the plantroom; or a financial decision when, by tying up capital in a ‘spare’ piece of equipment, those funds could be used elsewhere in the business.
- Introducing Classic from Fulton
- Reducing your off-grid carbon footprint
- Fuel duty scrappage: What are the alternatives to red diesel?
- Switch from oil to liquid gas serves up big savings
- Fulton appoints new applications engineer
- VSRT steam boilers complete arduous contract at Hinkley Point C concrete batching plant
- Brewery has no regrets following rebellious move from steam to thermal
- The makings of a fully-fledged process steam solution
- Universal Alloy turns to Fulton for steam
- Fulton Sacrifices Gross Margins to Assist Struggling Key Sectors
- Fulton Launches Intelligent Sequencing System for Steam Boilers
- Fulton Restart Package Offers Peace of Mind
- Fulton installation at Elis super laundry supported by aftercare solutions
- Fulton aftercare portfolio ensures holistic approach
- Fulton makes key engineering appointment
- A statement from managing director Carl Knight: Covid-19
- What's the real cost of pressure vessel repair?
- Fulton to showcase VSRT and promote aftercare at Foodex
- Steam Boilers v Steam Generators: The Differences
- Fulton announces changes to senior roles
- Fulton strengthens aftercare department with new appointments
- Fulton’s VSRT helps to improve efficiency at Fillongley
- Fulton's VSRT continues to impress the judges
- Fulton achieves CPD Certification for its VSRT training course
- VSRT wins at the LADAs2018 to scoop its second award in two weeks