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RPV Head Ladder for Nuclear Outage

Providing continuous innovation in nuclear outage efficiency, the Preferred Engineering division’s RPV Head Ladder helps easily access critical maintenance points along a nuclear reactor head. Made entirely of aluminum, this light weight RPV Head Ladder is customized to conform to the reactor head geometry. The base of the ladder is designed to drop into the stud holes along […]

Preferred Engineering: Nuclear Innovation for Modern Outage solutions

Preferred Engineering supports nuclear plants across the country with outage support and manufactured products to make nuclear outage inefficiencies a thing a of the past. We are proud of our nuclear division’s outage innovation with the RPV Nut Rack – a polished stainless steel weldment designed to support the weight of the RPV Nut, Washers, and if necessary, […]

Touchscreens for Boiler Room Efficiency, Safety, and Analytics

Made in the U.S.A., Preferred believes the best products are the quality products. We routinely revisit our equipment for updates and improvement. Our latest improvement, the updated graphics and features on our controls touchscreens, provides better value to the end user as well as a much more intuitive and consequently safe experience for the boiler room staff. Learn […]

Upgraded Performance for NYC School

Over the holidays, we installed (4) new 200hp high performance, low NOx, API-AF burners with BurnerMate Universal controls at a high school in Brooklyn. These burners are oil-only, 8:1 turndown, mechanically atomized, and feature reduced electric usage and NO fiber metal mesh heads which reduces annual costs/ maintenance. Made in the U.S.A., and started up and serviced by […]

Fuel Oil Design Marathon Webinar: Everything you need to know!

Explore the fundamentals and take a deep dive into the intricate details of designing a Fuel Oil System for burners and emergency back up power. REGISTER HERE! for our session on Thursday, December 17th at 2 PM Eastern Time! This marathon webinar will cover everything you need to know– from pipe sizing, the different types of leak detection and the codes you should […]

Auto-Calibrate: the Next Gen of Opacity Monitoring

At Preferred, we are constantly looking for the next improvement, addressing issues in the industry for better tech and better safety practices and equipment. This makes our boiler rooms better and our facility managers more efficient and safe. To that end, the updated Opacity Monitor JC-30D-EZ now comes standard with a new feature: Auto-Calibrate. The commonly code-required opacity […]

Keeping ‘Essential Services’ Running

This complete burner and controls retrofit from Preferred was installed an existing watertube boiler at an “essential services” corporation in the Midwest.  In partnership with Simoneau Sterling, Preferred Special Combustion Engineering, a division of Preferred Utilities Manufacturing Corporation, provided critical combustion engineering services, and products to meet the clients Emission Reduction, Energy Efficiency, and Sustainability Goals. Excellent project […]

The Importance of Sensing Lines to Performance of Boiler Room Instrumentation

-By David Eoff Sensing lines are everywhere in the modern plant, whether it be a boiler plant, refinery, chemical plant, or water treatment plant. Often the instrumentation problems that stump operators, contractors, and sometimes full-time service technicians are related to how sensing lines are installed and maintained. We’re going to examine some of the most common instruments that […]