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THERMAL ECONOMY’S CAPABILITIES

PROVIDING FEATURES AND CAPABILITIES EXCEEDING OUR COMPETITION

control and burner management systems

Large boiler showing a control panel with access for safety stop.

For over 30 years, our focus has been to provide burner and boiler equipment, control systems, startup, and additional related services to industrial, institutional, commercial, educational, and government businesses.

During the last 20 years, we have expanded our capabilities and product scope to become the premier supplier of control and burner management systems for all types of fired equipment and other related equipment, including boilers, de-aerators, feed water pumps, fired heaters, and furnaces.

OUR CONTROL SYSTEMS ARE FOUND IN:

  • Industrial businesses

  • Refineries
  • Chemical plants
  • Manufacturing plants
  • Hospitals
  • Universities and colleges
  • Military bases
  • Power plants
  • Numerous other facilities

Our systems are also installed on both new equipment and retrofitted to existing equipment.

Our systems provide features and capabilities exceeding our competition. We ensure our systems are as safe as possible, as they exceed NFPA, IRI, Factory Mutual, CSA, and U.L. requirements. Every system is designed for easy operation and therefore includes extensive diagnostic and troubleshooting information. Specifically, these systems are designed for operators and maintenance personnel. All systems furnished by Thermal Economy are designed, manufactured, programmed, and tested at our facility in Olive Branch.

THERMAL ECONOMY’S CAPABILITIES INCLUDE:

  • Burner management and control system design, PLC programming, human machine interface (HMI) graphic screen development
  • PLC based boiler control systems
  • Control systems fabrication, assembly, and wiring Job shop control system fabrication and wiring In-house factory acceptance testing and control system simulation for all manufactured systems
  • Design and manufacture to U.L., CSA, IRI, Factory Mutual, and NFPA standards as well as customer specifications
  • Installation and construction management Startup and commissioning
  • Instrumentation calibration and tuning Burner, boiler, heater, commissioning, and fuel air setting
  • Control system troubleshooting and redesign for existing installation
  • Studies and analysis of existing control systems, boilers, and burners
  • Training for plant engineers, maintenance personnel, and operators

INNOVATIVE THINKING. INNOVATIVE MACHINES.

In the competitive environment today, you need innovative machines that easily integrate into your operations. You require flexible and efficient equipment that increases business agility, optimizes productivity, and can turn mined data into working information capital. The right partnership is critical to the success of our operation. Partnering to design, develop, and deliver innovative equipment with Rockwell Automation solutions. Our commitment to use Rockwell Automation content across the portfolio and together we search for the most innovative solutions to suit your needs.

PARTNERING FOR YOUR SUCCESS

To compete effectively in the dynamic marketplace today, you must define value beyond the cost of your machines and maximize company performance. We can help to improve your performance with solutions and services to lower the Total Cost to Design, Develop, and DeliverSM machines and meet the requirements of our customers.

CUSTOMERS AND PROJECTS

The following is a short list of customers and projects. A more extensive list can be provided upon request. Currently, we have over 250 operating systems in over 125 locations.

UNIVERSITY AND GOVERNMENTAL CUSTOMERS:

UNITED STATES AIR FORCE ACADEMY:

  • Hot Water Generator Controls
  • Burner Controls
  • Balance of Plant Controls
  • Human Machine Interfaces
  • Central Computer Controls

FT CARSON ARMY BASE:

  • Hot Water Generator Controls
  • Burner Controls
  • Balance of Plant Controls
  • Human Machine Interfaces
  • Central Computer Controls

TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY:

  • Boiler Controls and Burner Controls for Three Boilers
  • Balance of Plant Controls
  • Human Machine Interfaces
  • Central Computer Monitoring
  • De-Aerator Controls

UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE:

  • Boiler and Burner Controls for Three Boilers
  • Human Machine Interfaces
  • Central Computer Controls
  • Lead Lag Controls

UNIVERSITY ALABAMA:

  • Burner Management Systems for Four Boilers

ATLANTA AIRPORT:

  • Human Machine Interface Controls for Central Boiler/Chiller Power House
  • Historical Trending

INDUSTRIAL AND POWER PLANT CUSTOMERS

ARCELOR MITTAL STEEL:

  • Burner Management for Four Burner Boiler Firing Blast Furnace Gas and Natural Gas
  • Continuous Ignitors
  • Fuel Transfer Between Ignitors and Blast Furnace Gas and Natural Gas
  • Redundant Allen Bradley Control Logix
  • Panelview

SHAMS, UTE ABU DAHBI:

  • Burner Management, Combustion Controls, and Heater Controls for 7 Fired Heaters and 2 Booster Heaters
  • SIL 3 Siemens S7 400 FH PLCs with Siemens HMIs
  • Modbus Communications to the Solar Power Plant DCS System

HARVEST ENERGY, BLACK GOLD:

  • Burner Management and Boiler Controls
  • Monitoring and Control of Many Balance of Plant Devices
  • Communications to Plant DCS via Modbus
  • Burner Sentry
  • Cross Limited Metering Combustion Controls and Feed Water Controls
  • CSA Approved

TEKNOR APEX:

  • Burner Management and Boiler Controls
  • Parallel Positioning with Feedback
  • VFD and VFD in Bypass Control
  • Feed Water Controls
  • Burner Sentry

LOUANA VENTURA FOODS:

  • Replaced Preferred Burner Management Systems and Boiler Controls with Burner Sentry PLC based systems
  • Parallel Positioning Combustion Controls and Feed Water Controls
  • Allen Bradley Compact Logix and HMI
  • Significant Customer Savings by Increasing System Reliability

LOCKHEED, DENVER:

  • Fireye Burner Logix Based Burner Management and Siemens 353 Controllers for Combustion Controls and Feed Water Controls
  • Boiler Efficiency Increased with New Controls and Control Strategy

CAMPBELL SOUP:

  • Three Burner Management Systems and Three Boiler Control Systems
  • Allen Bradley Control Logix
  • Wonderware HMI
  • Plant Master Controls

US STEEL:

  • Burner Management System for a Four Burner Boiler Firing Blast Furnace Gas and Natural Gas with Continuous Igniter
  • Redundant Allen Bradley Control Logix Integrates for All HMI Functions to an Emerson Delta V System

TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY:

  • Burner Management Systems and Boiler Controls for Two Utility Superheated Steam Auxillary Boilers
  • Redundant Allen Bradley Control Logix Systems with Redundant HMI Operator Interface Screens
  • Hot Standby Burner Ignitors for Boiler Standby Operations

ARIZONA PUBLIC SERVICE:

  • Burner Management System
  • De-Aerator Controls
  • Feed Water Pump Controls for a Utility Superheated Steam Auxillary Boiler
  • Modbus Interface to the Power Plant DCS System for Remote Operation and Monitoring

MICHELIN:

  • Burner Management Systems and Boiler Controls for Two Packaged Boilers

JOB SHOP PROJECTS

MICHELIN:

The following is a list of customers for which we have furnished electrical control system fabrication and wiring.

  • DuPont (multiple projects)
  • Tenaris (multiple projects)
  • Princeton Electric

TAKE A TEST RUN

You can even take a test run on our demo systems. If interested, please contact us as we would love to provide you with the opportunity to experience the operation of our system firsthand!

Project Gallery

New control panel installed for boiler system.