-Luke Amory, Danbury, CT Traditionally, when working with operationally sensitive equipment such as HMI/SCADA Systems, the established practice has been to “Air-Gap” your equipment and prevent any access from the outside world. Globalization, regulations, & the advent of AI have made this practice obsolete and costly to your bottom line. Plants that choose to be “Air-Gapped” lose out […]
UL Approval & Success
We have reason to celebrate! Preferred successfully completed the UL testing of our 1200 HP Ultra-Low NOx Ranger burner at Johnston Boiler. We now have UL listing on the following: API-AF : 50 HP through 600 HP API-RF: 100 HP through 1200 HP Ranger-RF: 100 HP through 1200 HP We also have ULB listings on the entire range […]
Pros of Burning Oil as a Fuel
NOx in Heating oil is significantly reduced: heating oil can contain less than 15 parts per million of sulfer. That is a 200-fold decrease in sulfer since 2014. Heating oil is a partially renewable fuel: more and more heating oils contain 2% – 5% plant derived biofuel, and likely to increase over time. Biofuel is a renewable energy […]
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 […]
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 […]