Modern Combustion Services
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Furnace Screening
Balance & Tuning
Combustion Training
Safety Train Certification
Engineering Consulting
Custom Solutions
Furnace Screening
A Furnace Screening is a comprehensive on-site industrial furnace assessment, trending combustion data at the burner level over time.
- PSNERGY Combustion Service Technicians onsite for one day
- Installing portable combustion monitoring equipment on the furnace to watch combustion at the same time over time
- Trending relevant continuous combustion data (Any of: Excess O2, CO, NOx, Combustion Air Pressure, Gas Pressure)
- Working with the customer's team to control furnace fire rate throughout its range to screen function of control valving and turndown operation. Note: furnace must be operating.
- Working with customer’s maintenance team to review historical furnace issues
- Analyzing the data for variations (time to time, burner to burner, zone to zone, setpoint vs actual, etc.)
- Verifying valving (Motorized Control Valves, Gas Flow Regulators, Butterfly Valves, Adjustable Limiting Orifice Valves, etc.) is correct for the control schematic and are functioning correctly
- Calculating tube flux on radiant tube burners to identify potential tube life issues.
- This can be performed if there is enough information available to perform the tube flux and current fire rate calculations. A tube drawing is needed.
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 Verification
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, etc