Sites:
Home > Technical Library > Manufacturing and Process Equipment > Heating and Cooling Equipment > Retrofit or Replace Boilers - Returning Wealth to the Business

Retrofit or Replace Boilers - Returning Wealth to the Business

From Cleaver-Brooks

With the current economic situation causing stress on every front from the crisis on Wall Street to the falling housing market to the failing auto industry, we in the energy conversion industry (including anybody who operates a boiler for heating or process) are also facing some tough economic times, and energy consumption is at the heart of much of it.

Read the Whole Article
Products & Services
Boilers (Industrial)
Industrial boilers are closed vessels that use a fuel source or electricity to heat water or generate steam for industrial heating and humidification applications.
Burners
Burners are heating devices that use air supplied specifically for the combustion of a fuel gas.
Economizers
Economizers are mechanical devices that are designed to reduce energy consumption, or to perform other useful, energy-related functions (such as preheating fluids).
Heat Exchangers
Heat exchangers are commonly used in a wide variety of industrial, chemical, and electronics processes to transfer energy and provide required heating or cooling.
Product Announcements
Alstrom Energy Group - Unfired Steam Generators
The Alstrom Unfired Steam Generators are designed to produce pressurized steam using boiler steam or high temperature liquid as an energy source. (read more)
NADCA - The North American Die Casting Association - NADCA Slashes Corporate Member Dues
Wheeling, IL, April 30, 2009 – As die casters continue to endure challenging times and make tough business and financial decisions, NADCA, The North American Die Casting Association, announces... (read more)
Topics of Interest

E Walker CEng, BSc, MIMechE R J Blaen 10.1 Terminology The following explain some of the more fundamental terms encountered when considering boilers. 10.1.1 Shell Boiler This is a boiler...

Chapter List Chapter 6.1: Boilers Chapter 6.2: Fuels and Combustion Equipment Chapter 6.3: Electric Generators Chapter 6.4: Gas Turbines Chapter 6.5: Steam Turbines Chapter 6.6:...

The competitive global environment provides a key economic driver to use reactive metals in corrosive conditions. Economics are dictated by POE, unit costs, maintenance cost, reliability, and life...

Complex Fuel Mix Problem In real-life situations, process industries import a variety of fuel oils for their consumption in process heaters/boilers to manufacture products. As mentioned in chapter...

Direct-use geothermal applications tap hot underground water and distribute the heat through pipes or some other means for various uses. The term â direct-useâ refers to the fact that no...