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  TOMRA Food, one of the world’s largest peeling solutions providers, has installed a BABCOCK WANSON VAP600RR Coil Type Steam Boiler into its test centre in Dublin, Ireland, where it is being used to carry out tests and demonstrations for food peeling applications.

• Increased boiler efficiency at expanded Romanian operations  

  With a requirement for new steam boilers with increased capacity, higher efficiency and more eco-friendly emissions when expanding their operations at a second facility in Romania, Universal Alloy Corporation turned to heat transfer specialist Fulton. PWE reports.

• A head of steam 

  From the first industrial revolution to the fourth, inspirational change has been driven by a willingness to embrace the unconventional and cross traditional industry boundaries. A partnership between one of the UK’s oldest and best-known boiler manufacturers, Byworth Boilers with SICK’s industrial instrumentation division, has helped fine-tune its boiler house controls to save up to 7% on customer fuel bills.

• Build your foundations before commissioning new equipment 

  With so many variables to consider in the planning, management and upgrade of steam boilers, it’s important for professionals to have a solid grounding in the “fundamentals of steam”. In turn, this will help to achieve better efficiency and safety. Chris Coleman, Boiler house National Specialist at Spirax Sarco, provides some of the principles that should empower plant managers to ask the right questions and to get the right results.

• Steam boiler efficiency 

  With the launch of the its B850 Flow Computer, SPIRAX SARCO says steam system operators can now accurately measure true boiler efficiency without the need for Building Management or Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems that can be costly and time consuming to implement.