Novel US ‘Super Boiler’

As a person who uses the steam from boilers regularly, I found out about this article/news from the "engineerlive.com/european-process-engineer" newsletter. It's an interesting and very good innovation that I think i better share it with the rest of you. Those who operate or who'se close to boiler operation may found this interesting, i guess....

An Illinois-based organisation dedicated to research, development and training for the natural gas industry has developed a new industrial steam generation system that provides increased efficiency, reduced emissions and lower fuel costs.

Gas Technology Institute (GTI) has teamed with Cleaver-Brooks-a leader in packaged boilers for industrial, institutional, and commercial applications-to focus efforts on bringing technological advances to the marketplace.

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a) The super boiler. Two-stage 90HP lab boiler (b)Transport membrane condenser at specialist rubber site (c) Humidifying air heater at specialist rubber site.

Smaller footprint

Now in field demonstration at Specification Rubber Products in Alabama, the advanced

gas-fired boiler-dubbed the ‘super boiler’ by its sponsors-has shown significant performance improvements over alternative technologies.

In addition, the boiler has a 40percent smaller footprint and half the weight of conventional boilers.

Read more here http://www.engineerlive.com/european-process-engineer/16618/field-tests-begin-on-novel-us-super-boiler.thtml