Modern Combustion Services
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Furnace Evaluation
Balance & Tuning
Combustion Training
Safety Train Certification
Engineering Consulting
Custom Solutions
Furnace Evaluation
Not sure where to start? Our engineers will help assess your current furnace performance and help you make a plan to achieve all of your combustion goals.
- Review and documentation of furnace description, control system, and valving
- Adequate random sample of tubes for pressure and excess oxygen in the
stack to develop an estimation of tube balance and furnace firing efficiency - Baseline performance measurement
- Control valve function assessment
- Radiant tube flux calculation to determine tube life
- Documentation of proper tuning procedures
- Full reporting and expert recommendations
Balance & Tuning
Discover our proprietary measurement technology and proven methodology.
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Modern, proprietary hardware and methodology
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Data-driven system approach
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Zone to zone and burner to burner balance
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High and low fire adjustment
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Motorized control valves and linkages
- Regulators, valves, orifice plates
- Initial and final readings
- Immediate maintenance issue identification and resolution
- Recommendations for improvement
- Full reporting

First Session: Classroom
What You'll Learn:
- Heat transfer
- Furnace basics
- How to minimize loss & why it's important
- Combustion:
- Inputs & definitions
- Control & optimization
- Furnace and burner adjustments
- Benefits of proper tuning procedures
- Misconceptions and how to avoid them
- Fundamentals of control systems
Second Session: Hands-on
What You'll Learn:
- Engineering review
- burner rate, furnace efficiency, expected material flow
- Hands-on furnace evaluation
- Identification of important combustion components
- Furnace walk through and evaluation
- Example tuning demonstration
Safety Train Certification
A thorough review and documentation of your combustion system, which is now required annually on all furnaces per provisions of NFPA 86. 
- Inspection and leak testing of emergency and manual shutoff
- Pressure testing of overpressure protection, low pressure switches and high pressure switches
- System testing of excess temperature interlock, combustion air pressure interlock and plumbing & valve train
- Report highlighting observations

- Process engineering
- Energy assessments
- EHS reporting and critical to quality metrics
- Development of standard operating procedures
- Furnace efficiency, system fire rate, load capability analysis
- Load temperature studies and thermal imaging
- Radiant tube failure mitigation
- Controlled atmosphere troubleshooting
- Control system evaluation, optimization, modification
- Improvement recommendations and cost-benefit analysis
Custom Solutions
Solutions based on your facility's temperature studies, thermal images, and controlled atmosphere. 
- Fully automated combustion monitoring and alerting
- Fully automated controlled atmosphere monitoring and alerting
- Pressure monitoring and alerting
- Easily implemented custom solutions for temperature, flow, pressure, et