Our SECOND burner and controls retrofit for Bates College on one of their existing 700 HP Cleaver-Brooks™ boilers so they can burn ENSYN Renewable Fuel Oil (100% renewable fuel source derived from trees) as their primary heating source! With our help, Bates is on the verge of reaching their 2020 emissions and carbon reduction milestones while increasing combustion […]
Retrofit “Insert” for Sustainability Goals
An innovative, low-cost combustion solution to meet sustainability goals, emission reduction requirements, and extreme efficiency improvements. This installation is at an American college with aggressive sustainability goals. Our solution for them–a burner and controls upgrade on one of their existing 700 HP Cleaver Brooks boilers to achieve their emission and carbon reduction milestones, while increasing combustion efficiency and […]
Sustainability and Incentives with Combined Heat & Power
Combined Heat and Power or CHP refers to using the waste heat in the exhaust of a turbine or engine to make steam or hot water. Preferred is getting active in CHP projects with Williams & Davis boilers of Dallas, TX. Their specially designed boilers can accept the exhaust from a diesel generator to make steam or hot […]
Reliability, Longevity and Unmatched Service
For reliability, longevity and unmatched service, choose Preferred! This Preferred JC-CDDF2 chief dispatcher model has been in service since the 1970’s in a Newport, RI facility. When one of the relay sockets finally broke, they called Preferred. Although this unit has been out of production for nearly 20 years, we still had replacement parts in stock and original […]
Letter to the Editor: Today’s Boiler May 2018: Warning–A Boiler Breakdown may be in your Future story
-Today’s Boilers This is a Letter to the Editor written by David Eoff of Preferred Utilities to Today’s Boiler regarding an article in the Spring 2018 edition called: Warning–A Boiler Breakdown may be in your Future story. “As Geoff Halley, the author of this article stated, the low water cutout switches that prevent a boiler from dry firing […]
Changes in Underground Storage Tank Regulations; Final Rule
The EPA made changes to the 1988 Underground Storage Tank (UST) regulations back in 2015, but the changes have not gone into effect until a date soon approaching, October 13, 2018. According to the EPA, the changes to the UST regulations are because of new technology proven to be reliable and accurate and the wide variety of new […]
Preferred’s Capabilities
Do you know all of Preferred’s capabilities? Our products include fuel oil handling systems and components, boiler instrumentation and controllers, high quality burners and nuclear power plant outage reduction tools and component parts. Continuous research and development is applied to our existing products and is helping us to lead the industry with new and innovative power plant solutions. […]
Happy Trails: 2018 Summer Interns!
The end of summer is marked by the departure of our fine group of interns who join our team May through August. Before they go, interns and managers get together so each intern can present their major completed projects to peers and Preferred team members. Thank you for your great work at Preferred and best wishes for […]
A Tribute & the 7th Annual R.G.B. Tournament
Team members from our Danbury, New York, and Boston offices along with associates of Preferred Utilities got together on August 9th for the 7th Robert G. Bohn Memorial Invitational golf tournament. This tournament is hosted by David Bohn and Preferred annually to celebrate the life and successes of Mr. Bohn’s father, the late Robert G. Bohn. […]
Exceeding the Competition
The Coen “AC” valve has been nearly irreplaceable because of it complicated, characterized design and expense – until now! As just one of its capabilities, the Preferred Voluvalve directly replaced and exceeded the performance of the Coen “AC” valve at this recent project site. The Voluvalve can be made to drop in as a direct replacement for a […]