Eco-Oil switches to thermal fluid heating
6 May 2011
Ipswich, UK – Eco-Oil, a UK industrial waste oil recycler, has installed a TPC1000B thermal fluid heating system from Babcock Wanson in its Ipswich oil recycling plant. The facility had previously relied solely on steam boilers.
The fully automatic coil type, multi-pass heater, complete with integrated burner, control system and safety devices is being employed in Eco-Oil’s process area to generate heat for the production of processed fuel oil.
The TPC heater has been supplied with a dual fuel burner facility, running on gas oil but with the option to switch to the recycled Processed Fuel Oil Eco-Oil
produces at the plant.
Reducing energy costs was the main purpose of the decision to switch to thermal fluid, according Allan Goulden, Eco-Oil’s engineering director.
“We knew we could make considerable savings by moving from steam to thermal fluid as the heat source for our process,” said Goulden. “To date we have been proven right: the system has reduced our energy costs and is easy to use with very good control.”
The TPC1000B can achieve 20-50% energy savings when compared to the transfer of the same amount of heat using traditional steam boilers, according to Babcock Wanson. The system, it claims, precisely matches fuel input to plant energy requirements for high efficiency, lower energy demand and reduced exhaust emissions.
