Fire Tube Boiler.

Fire Tube Steam Boilers are the most common technique for the production of saturated steam, high pressure hot water or superheated steam in industrial settings. Steam is generated by heating water in a pressurised drum by means of hot gases, which are produced from the combustion of liquid or gaseous fuels circulating through submerged tubes.

The large volume of pressurised stored water is used to resolve the standard potential variables that affect all boiler type systems, including variations in the feed water, fuel, combustion quality, temperatures and, importantly, steam load variation.

What We Monitor.

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ROI

83%

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Energy

-10%

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Operations

Better Duty &
Standby balancing

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8 months

Payback Period

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Maintenance

Avoid breakdowns

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Sustainability

Reduce emissions

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Monitoring.

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Energy

Consumption data continuously collected from:

  • Gas or Fuel Oil meters
  • Electricity meters on pumps & fans

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Operations

Capture key operating data directly from process control systems:

  • Operating temperatures
  • Pump Flow rates
  • Run-times
  • Emissions quality

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Maintenance

Monitor leading indicators of failure:

  • Current & Torque: Drive and pumps loading
  • Vibration: Lubrication failure, bearing wear and asset stability

Indicative Savings.

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Energy

A 10 tonne/hour boiler can easily consume in excess of £500,000 of gas per year at (May 2022 prices).

Mechanical & control issues, combined can easily reduce efficiency by 5%, increasing energy cost by £25,000 per annum

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Operations

Balancing load between boilers to ensure the most efficient unit is running at any point in time could deliver a further 5% reduction in energy consumption, or an additional saving of £25,000 per annum.

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Maintenance

A typical failure on the fans or feedwater pump could take 6-8 hours to repair.

Add a further 4 hours to bring the steam back to temperature, leading to a total site shutdown of 12 hours, costed at £4,000/ hour. Total potential saving £48,000

Add the consequential cost of material write-off for any product damaged when in process during boiler failure.

Indicative Costs & Payback

83% ROI Payback within eight months.

Year 1 cost - £23,800

Annual Monitoring Cost - £1,800*

Hardware costs - £20,000

Commissioning - £2,000

* This represents the boiler's share of the annual monitoring fee.

Hardware

Required hardware will depend on type of heating, data collected and variables monitored:
  • Energy/Gas/Fuel Oil meters
  • Process control data connections
  • Vibration sensors—monitoring key drives, gearboxes and fans

Commissioning

Our specialists configure the system and run end-to-end testing prior to go-live.

Monitoring Cost

Annual service fee, based on the total number of parameters measured on a specific site. The values used in this illustration are based on monitoring 14 parameters for this asset type. 

Actual implementation may use more or fewer parameters than this example, depending on requirements.

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