Fulton's all-new VSRT vertical steam boiler has scooped its second award in just two weeks, having won Best New Product at the Laundry & Dry Cleaning Awards (LADAs2018), which were held at Mercedes-Benz World in Surrey on Thursday 1st November.
The LADAs recognise exceptional individuals, companies and products/services in the laundry and drycleaning industry and aim to celebrate skills and innovations.
The judges had some tough decisions to make, with this year's awards attracting a record number of entries, up more than 100% on last year.
Commenting on the awards, Fulton's Carl Knight says: "To have an award-winning steam boiler in our portfolio is really something, but it's now double-award-winning and we couldn't be happier and are loking forward to taking this news and the award back to our Bristol facility and share it with a very deserving team."
The claims made by vertical steam boiler manufacturers are easy to get excited about, especially at a time when stringent industry and environmental standards – such as the MCPD and London’s Air Quality Strategy – are making the headlines. Fulton’s Carl Knight takes a closer look.
We’ve all read the claims, “class-leading”, “energy efficient”, “superior steam quality”, “low maintenance”, the list goes on. But do these claims really stack up?
There are really only two vertical tubeless steam boiler solutions available in the UK. One is based on decades-old technology and the other is Fulton’s all-new, award-winning VSRT, a ground-up, clean-slate design approach that combines new people with new skills that have brought a new approach to the design and optimisation of heat transfer solutions.
And yes, Fulton has its own claims to make: that the VSRT is the most radical change to vertical steam boiler design since they pioneered the vertical tubeless boiler in 1949.
Fulton's all-new VSRT – the company’s radical vertical spiral-rib tubeless steam boiler – has received the Environmental/Sustainability award at the Food Processing Awards 2018.
The awards ceremony, which was held at the DoubleTree by Hilton in Coventry, followed the Appetite for Engineering's food and beverage sector engineering forum.
The VSRT was nominated in the same category as product offerings from two food packaging specialists, with readers of IML Group's Food Processing magazine casting their votes in the run up to the event.
Commenting from the awards ceremony, Fulton managing director Carl Knight says: "We are delighted to have been nominated for, and won, this presitious award. This is the VSRT's first award and recognises the hard work the Fulton team has put in to the VSRT project. It's great that we can now refer to our VSRT as an award-winning steam boiler!"
The VSRT from Fulton – the company’s all-new vertical spiral-rib tubeless steam boiler – already boasts ultra-low NOx emissions and high efficiencies, but now comes with a 10-year “unparalleled” warranty on the pressure vessel, double that of the industry standard.
Commenting for Fulton, sales and marketing manager Leigh Bryan says: “The unique spiral-rib design of the VSRT creates a longer-lasting boiler that we believe will beat the competition in every category of durability so, to put our money where our mouth is, we have decided to include a 10-year warranty on the pressure vessel as standard!”
The patented spiral-rib heat exchanger design – a result of the company’s ‘Pure Technology’ approach to systems engineering – not only allows Fulton to improve boiler efficiency but, with virtually zero thermal stress and a thick-walled construction featuring vertical tubeless design architecture, the VSRT is one of the most durable steam boilers available.
Having introduced its City & Guilds accredited training courses four-and-a-half years ago, Fulton is delighted to announce that, following months of hard work and assessments, its Vertical Tubeless Boiler Operation & Maintenance training course has been certified by the CPD Certification Service as conforming to the continuing professional development principles.
Commenting for Fulton, aftercare and business development manager Jeff Byrne says: "Fulton has always enjoyed promoting the benefits of operator training to its customers and this CPD Certification adds real value to our course offering.”
Having achieved CPD status for its Vertical Steam Boiler Operation & Maintenance course, Fulton is now working towards certification for its VSRT Boiler Operation & Maintenance course which, given the radical design of the boiler, focuses on the VSRT’s use of state-of-the-art controls and technology and looks in-depth at its patented spiral heat exchanger. This all-new boiler design has emerged from Fulton’s adoption and implementation of its Pure Technology approach, an initiative that resulted in a world-first design that is durable, long-lasting and boasts the highest efficiencies and ultra-low NOx emissions as standard.
In this article, Carl Knight, managing director of heat transfer specialist Fulton, looks at the Medium Combustion Plant Directive (MCPD).
The list of applications for high quality, dry steam is almost endless. However, while many steam boilers are extremely robust, they are based on old or ageing technology and often inefficient. As a result, and in an effort to make them more efficient, many manufacturers have simply fitted modulating burners and bolt on economisers in an attempt to improve both steam output and efficiency. But for how long can boiler manufacturers simply keep reinventing the wheel when new legislation is knocking on the door and only likely to become more stringent over time?
In December 2017, the Medium Combustion Plant Directive (MCPD) was introduced to improve air quality by controlling emissions to air on all types of generators. It becomes effective on new installations from December 2018 and, depending on size, existing plant in 2025 and 2030.
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