Boiler Combustion Analysis

Any time the weather changes, whether it’s warming up or cooling down, it’s essential that your boiler undergoes a combustion analysis. This analysis examines the heat exchanger’s efficiency and ensures a proper ratio of fuel to air, which keeps harmful gases from building up to toxic levels.

Smith Hughes boiler combustion optimization practices help keep your boiler system in equilibrium, allowing for safe, reliable operations that minimize emissions and boost efficiency. Make sure your facility can count on its boiler regardless of the weather by letting our expert technicians conduct regular boiler emissions analyses like we have around the country since 1946.

The Importance of Combustion Analysis

When the boiler combustion process is running inefficiently, it is more than unsafe. While the increase in emissions is perhaps the top reason to complete regular efficiency testing, it also leads to increased fuel costs on your end. Plus, by forcing the equipment to run harder to make up for it, you reduce the life span of your boiler. Proper boiler combustion analysis contributes to:

• Sustainability: In most facilities, boiler systems make up a majority of the property’s energy use, but an optimized boiler uses less energy and produces fewer emissions. In a world that is constantly striving for energy efficiency, this simple test can put you leagues ahead in industry sustainability outlooks.
• Boiler optimization: Our analysis will examine and correct the fuel-to-air ratio and a number of other essential processes within the boiler. This ensures your boiler system works better for longer and at a reduced cost.
• Site safety: Depending on the fuel you use to power your boiler, the heat exchanger may emit natural gas, carbon monoxide or carbon dioxide. While low levels of these in the air may not be noticeable, the combustion process can quickly exceed safe levels and pose a danger to anyone in the boiler’s vicinity. It’s vital that they stay within acceptable limits. One of the best ways to find out if they are within limits is with a full boiler emissions analysis.

Performance Measurements and Assessment

What makes a boiler perform well? The boiler system is more complex than most people realize, and at Smith Hughes, we have made it our specialty to understand every part of how it works. Our inspections give you an expert overview of how your boiler is currently performing and what we can do to make it work even better. During our assessment, we’ll complete:

• Flue gas analysis.
• Stack temperature measurement.
• Fuel and air analysis.
• Combustion efficiency measurement.
• Ignition timing evaluation.
• Fuel injection rate inspection.

From there, we will use our readings to optimize and advance your system. Our goal is always to restore safety and efficiency to your workflow, and our after-action report will show you exactly where you need to start to achieve it.

Reporting and Recommendations

During our boiler combustion efficiency testing, we collect lots of information that can affect the way you run your operations. To make things easier for you, we deliver it in the form of a comprehensive analysis report. This summary gives you a concise overview of our findings with suggestions on how you can implement them to improve workflow. In it, you will find details about:

• Current combustion performance: First, we’ll give you a clear picture of current function levels and how well your system is performing.
• Areas for improvement: Next, we’ll discuss anything we saw within your system that is not operating properly or to its maximum capabilities. These may be things we can assist in repairing later on.
• Optimization recommendations: Finally, we’ll propose methods for optimizing the boiler. This may include making adjustments to the burner, air distribution system or control system, among other things.

These findings are tailored based on our clients’ preferences and goals, which we take the time to learn prior to our analysis. The result is a list of actionable findings that highlight your needs and show you how the Smith Hughes team will address them. Our decades of service experience make us the one-stop shop for testing your equipment and repairing it, saving you time and money and putting your system back to work sooner.

Get Your Boiler Emissions Analysis Today

Safe, efficient and reliable — make sure your boiler is all of those with efficiency testing from Smith Hughes. Our family has spent decades building our reputation as experts in boiler sales, service and everything in between. Even when your boiler is working better than ever, we have ways to improve its function and streamline your operations. When you have concerns, our service team will take on your repair with care and expertise.

Protect your staff and facility when you request an emissions analysis today. Our technicians will get you on our schedule for a consultation and quote as soon as possible.