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Dave Smrdel
Manager
Power and Energy
330.995.8209
email: xxfgsd@rovisys.com

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330.562.8600
Southeast Office
919.387.1200

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 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.

RoviSys boiler and steam system services:

  • 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 

For a complete overview of boiler and plant-wide steam generation and distribution system efficiency, go to…(next section)

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If you are working with outdated controls equipment like single loop, pneumatic or fixed-mixture jackshaft controls, there is only so much you can do.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.

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.