{"id":1026,"date":"2019-10-08T18:31:01","date_gmt":"2019-10-08T18:31:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.preferred-mfg.com\/blog\/?p=1026"},"modified":"2024-05-14T21:12:01","modified_gmt":"2024-05-14T21:12:01","slug":"block-island-school-plagued-by-oil-spill-trouble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepyroscope.com\/blog\/block-island-school-plagued-by-oil-spill-trouble\/","title":{"rendered":"Block Island School Plagued by Oil Spill Trouble"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

<\/strong>Experts from Preferred Utilities help them identify their\nproblem, and then get it solved.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Block Island School in Rhode Island has been considering\nsome major upgrades in 2019, and although they’ve hit a couple of snags along\nthe way, Preferred Utilities Manufacturing was able to help them solve a\nheating oil problem that threatened to stymie their whole project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Back in March, school staff discovered a troubling heating\noil spill that needed addressing. The heating fuel spilled out of a vent pipe\nto the school\u2019s roof and then onto the ground below, near the playground behind\nthe school\u2019s south wing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a recent\narticle<\/a> in the Block Island Times, Sam Bird (the town’s facilities manager)\nsaid that it was not an easy diagnosis. The culprit, he and the representatives\nfrom Preferred realized, was a check valve in the fuel supply piping that did\nnot open to send the oil back to the main tank after an electronic control unit\nfailed.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe valve had not opened, or had not had a reason to open,\nfor years,\u201d Bird said. With the valve stuck shut, the pump still going, and the\nreturn line closed off, the oil had nowhere else to go except out the roof\nvent. After a few minutes, the valve opened and the fuel flowed back to its\ntank, and no more oil spilled from the vent. To fix it, Preferred recommended\nthat the school replace the electronic controls on the pumps and valves that\nsupply fuel oil to the heating system. The new system will bypass the day\ntanks with new piping to create a closed system, preventing the same kind of\nspill from recurring<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the installation, Preferred will return to start the\nnew fuel supply system and train town or school personnel to operate it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition to addressing this fuel oil problem, the\nschool’s operations staff also had the site tested for asbestos, and the\nresults were negative. So they are good to go with their eagerly awaited\nrenovation project!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Preferred is happy to have the opportunity to work with schools like the Block Island School to help them solve pressing issues in their physical plants. With winter weather looming, is your school or college looking at spending too much on heating? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Call us, and we’ll look for ways to increase your efficiency and save you money!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Experts from Preferred Utilities help them identify their problem, and then get it solved. The Block Island School in Rhode Island has been considering some major upgrades in 2019, and although they’ve hit a couple of snags along the way, Preferred Utilities Manufacturing was able to help them solve a heating oil problem that threatened to stymie their […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1338,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepyroscope.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepyroscope.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepyroscope.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepyroscope.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepyroscope.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1026"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepyroscope.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2790,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepyroscope.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026\/revisions\/2790"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepyroscope.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepyroscope.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepyroscope.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepyroscope.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}