Importance of Industrial Burner Preventative Maintenance

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Virtually every industry from food and chemical production to polymer and steel processing uses

burners in their manufacturing process and thus, can benefit from industrial burner preventative

maintenance.

Regular burner maintenance not only reduces unexpected down time, but it also helps companies

comply with safety codes and standards. In addition, preventative combustion services can help improve

production, safety and equipment life.

Energy savings is another benefit of burner preventative maintenance. Given the continual escalation of

fuel prices, it’s obvious that running energy-inefficient equipment can be quite costly for a company.

The column on the left-hand side of Table 1 lists 7 ways preventative burner services can reduce the

heat wasted by combustion equipment, thereby improving energy efficiency and reducing fuel costs.

Table 1 Source: http://www1.eere.energy.gov/industry/bestpractices/index.html

Energy and fuel savings are not the only positive outcomes of continually reducing the amount wasted

heat from combustion equipment. As shown above, each of the 7 heat recovery improvements made

through regular burner maintenance may also result in increased productivity, temperature uniformity,

reduction of exhaust gas mass and improved heat transfer to the production load.

For more information about industrial burner services, please call 513-367-9300 or visit Stelter &

Brinck’s website:

http://www.stelterbrinck.com/combustion_burner_field_services.htm