Outsourced Steam Production: the New Normal
“Businesses are increasingly becoming frustrated with their own ability to efficiently operate and maintain their steam infrastructure without passing the increasing cost onto customers. This is exacerbated by the fact that the skills around maintaining steam operations have become scarcer,” says Jonathan Probert, Head of Business Development for EP Steam, a division of Energy Partners. […]
Boiler Units Brought into the 2020s
Babcock has come full circle at a major power station where it will be upgrading electrostatic precipitators (ESPs) on six boiler units that it designed and built in the 1980s. Using technology not available at the time, Babcock will bring the boiler units into the 2020s, enabling the power station to comply with the latest […]
Entire Suite of Numerical Analysis Tools
Steinmuller Africa, is now positioned to take its suite of process, mechanical & piping engineering services to a wider range of industries. The company’s numerical analysis, part of its process engineering offering for boilers and heat exchange equipment in power plants countrywide, is used to accurately analyse the fluid dynamic behaviour of almost any boiler […]
Building A Large Boiler Solution
Johan Kritzinger, Divisional Head at Energy Partners Steam – a division of Energy Partners and part of the PSG group – provides some insight into the installation of this large steam plant at the Nokeng fluorspar mine. “The mine is a R1.7 billion open-pit project, which will produce 180 000 tons of acid grade fluorspar […]
Water Softener Maintenance
A water softener removes hard water minerals, like calcium and magnesium, which can cause scaling and damage in the boiler tubes,” explains Lionel Maasdorp, MD at Allmech, a South African manufacturer of boilers and supplier of water treatment components.“Cooling towers are another common application for industrial water softeners. They can operate much more efficiently with […]
Understanding Your Options
Lionel Maasdorp, General Manager at Allmech, a South African manufacturer of boilers and supplier of water treatment components, says that the starting point is to understand how much steam your application requires.“Our recommendation is that if you need anything less than a tonne, your best bet is an electrode boiler,” he says. “If it’s not […]
