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Industrial Oregon has moved!
 As more companies are moving out of Portland, Cole Industrial
has moved in. Our new facility is located in the industrial
heart of the Rose City at the intersection of NW 31st and
Guam.
This location puts us closer to our customers, contractors
and consulting firms. We are pushing to provide our customers
greater access and support at all levels and this move is
just part of that. As we get settled in we will be beefing
up our repair parts inventory and local support staff.
If you are in the neighborhood please stop in and say hello.
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NEW!
LEVEL MASTER™
Water Level Control System
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The
Cleaver-Brooks Level Master was designed to be a low
water cutoff controller with enhanced safety features. The
Level Master's capabilities ensure the boiler's water level
remains at a safe operating level. While motoring the boiler's
water level, the self-checking features verify the control is
operating as designed. The system can also verify the operation
of the auxiliary low water cutoff control. |
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Download
a printable version of the
LEVEL MASTER
Product Brochure
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New
upgrades to Alaska Native Medical Center aimed at improving
fuel efficiency while protecting the environment
Alaska Native Medical Center can start looking forward to
20% lower fuel bills and less harmful boiler emissions, thanks
to some epic changes being implemented in the hospital and
teaching center's central steam plant. The plant upgrades
for the 150-bed facility in Anchorage are being implemented
by Seattle-based Cole Industrial, Inc., the leading supplier
of boiler room equipment and accessories in the northwest.
Cole plans to install advanced fuel and low emissions controls
on three of the centers model Cleaver-Brooks firetube steam
boilers, including Variable Frequency Drive (VFD) systems
on the motors that drives the forced draft fans, (Oxygen)2
Trim Systems, and flue gas recirculation systems on the low
emissions burners.
One of the most important retrofits performed by Cole will
be the installation of a Variable Frequency Drive (VFD) systems
on the motors that drive the boilers' forced draft fans. The
standard motor forced draft fan blows air into the combustion
chamber and mixes with the natural gas to achieve combustion.
The speed of the motor is determined by the maximum output
required of the boiler, which generally operates at low or
medium output capacity through 95% of the year. But the VFD
system will reduce motor speeds by as much as 80% because
it modulates motor frequency to meet the demand of the boiler.
The reduced motor speeds will lower electrical usage considerably
and also extend the bearing life of the motor. All in all,
the VFD system offers much greater control over the standard
electrical motor.
Cole recommended a new O2 trim system to optimize the fuel-to-air
mixture so that the boiler stays "in tune" automatically
- even as atmospheric conditions change. In the past, the
boilers were only able to approximate the combustion mixture,
which required a greater amount of excess air to account for
atmospheric variations. In other words, as the temperature,
moisture content, and atmospheric pressure changes, so does
the actual O2 content per specific volume of air. With the
new O2 trim system, the excess air is reduced and the fuel-to-air
mixture automatically adjusts to optimize combustion. The
result is much higher fuel-to-air efficiency and less emissions
from each boiler. And since the O2 trim system automatically
keeps the boilers in tune, there is less boiler maintenance.
Cole also retrofitted the boilers with special low emissions
burners that use flue gas recirculation (FGR) systems to
lower
nirtrous oxides (NOx) and Carbon monoxide (CO) levels in
each boiler without any reduction in boiler efficiency.
For more details contact us, or
call Russel West, Alaska Sales Representative for Cole Industrial,
at 425-774-6602.
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