Energy saving boiler controls and steam generation systems
If you’re planning to upgrade or replace
industrial boiler controls, you’re in line to significantly improve boiler
efficiency. Looking for ways to reduce the cost of meeting demand for steam within
your plant? There are encouraging developments for you as well.
Steam generation and distribution gets little respect in most production improvement
budgets. Yet raising steam uses more than 45 percent of the fuel burned by U.S.
manufacturers. By improving steam generation
control and distribution systems, government research shows, the typical
plant can save 20 percent on fuel costs.
As energy costs continue to rise, related control automation and plant information
integration systems offer more capabilities and usability for increasingly affordable
investments. With the potential to permanently reduce ongoing energy costs by 10
to 30 percent, boiler and steam systems clearly deserve higher priority than only
replacing what breaks.
Upgrade your combustion controls
If you are working with outdated controls equipment like single loop, pneumatic
or fixed-mixture jackshaft controls, there is only so much you can do. Boilers with
modern controls allow you to operate safely at higher temperatures while consuming
less fuel and producing fewer emissions. They also can efficiently accommodate even
rapid and wide load fluctuations. Such capabilities cannot be tacked on to older
systems.
Where you have to spend to save, payback can be within 12 months for some upgrades
and replacements such as combustion and boiler controls.
Government industrial energy programs can provide tax credits, low-interest
loans and even grants to improve your ROI. We can assist in identifying these programs.
The RoviSys power and energy team has developed a combustion control standard for
specifically for our manufacturing clients. It provides a NEMA 12 enclosed micro-processor
control architecture and ISA approved combustion control logics plus support and
expandability for all typical boiler field signals, local color touchscreen operator
controls, associated CAD drawings, startup and commissioning services. Like all
RoviSys engineered automation systems, it has been designed to integrate into your
larger control system architecture.
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boiler life and steam system efficiency.
RoviSys boiler and steam system services
Whether your most economical approach is upgrade or replacement, we can help. We
partner with our clients to assess, engineer and implement steam generation and
chilled water systems controls, company-wide energy management systems and programs
and overall production control and information systems.
- Boiler controls and steam generation systems audits
- Recommendations to improve efficiency, capabilities and safety, including extending
the life of existing boilers
- Specification, design and implementation of boiler and steam system controls
- Integrating boiler and steam controls into your overall plant energy management
and automation control and information systems