Radical design for steam boiler
Fulton claims its SRT Series vertical steam boiler, exhibited at the recent Foodex show at the National Exhibition Centre, near Birmingham, features the most radical design change in nearly 70 years.
“Not only are we celebrating 50 years of manufacturing in the UK, but we’re also launching a great new heat transfer solution that we believe to be the most radical change in steam boiler design since we pioneered the vertical tubeless boiler in 1949!” says Fulton’s sales and marketing manager Doug Howarth.
By adopting a systems engineering approach to design and using its ‘Pure’ technology, Fulton’s SRT Series challenges the heat transfer and mechanical design principles of traditional vertical steam boilers.
The new vertical boiler’s spiral-rib tubeless design is claimed to be a world first that has enabled Fulton to create a compact boiler with a particularly small footprint.
Compared with the equivalent 30hp model from the company’s J Series, the SRT Series is 40% smaller.
Using a combination of in-house modelling with computational fluid dynamics and finite element analysis, the ‘Pure Optimised’ design of the SRT Series makes the new boiler durable and reliable in operation.
To comply with anticipated EU regulations, the boiler’s combustion technology has also been completely reconfigured, with the mesh burner and furnace designed as a single component, resulting in ultra-low nitrogen oxide emissions of less than 40mg/kWh.
Meanwhile, Rebellion Beer Company, a microbrewery based in the Chiltern Hills, has achieved big energy savings following the installation of Fulton’s new FT-C 240 vertical coil thermal fluid heating system as a replacement for brewery’s old steam-based system.
Contact Fulton to find out more information.
