Combustion 911 Header Background
  SubTotal:      View Cart View Combustion 911 Shopping Cart
Combustion 911 Header Background
 

Category Archives: Baron von Olsträd’s Sketchbook

Keep Temporary Fixes Temporary

Emergencies can throw your whole operation into a tailspin if you’re not prepared. In a manufacturing facility, where being “down” means an idle workforce and lost revenue, the tendency is to use any means necessary to continue running production. Sometimes this means finding temporary solutions. Unfortunately, a temporary solution might become permanent for lack of Read More

Qualifications are Paramount

A worker who commits to a task and sees it through is a valuable asset, but they ought to realize when the task exceeds their qualifications, and seek guidance. Especially when the task involves important safety equipment, where making the wrong decision could create a dangerous situation for personnel and property. Parachutes and safety shut-off Read More

It’s Not Alive!

It’s common for an industrial plant to have openings to in the roof, especially when these plants have furnaces or ovens. A vent line allows excess combustible gases to exit to atmosphere, and a flue might allow the same for products of combustion inside the furnace chamber. Placement of these vents and flues should be Read More

Don’t Choke Your Furnace

Industrial furnaces require periodic maintenance to ensure efficiency and continued operation. Much of this maintenance can be performed by properly trained plant technicians, rather than relying on outside support. Depending on size and design, your furnace probably has two main input lines: one for natural gas (or some other combustible gas), and one for air. Read More

How Low is Your Purge Time?

The purge sequence is essential to the safety of personnel and the continued integrity of equipment. Purging the furnace of combustible gases from the furnace atmosphere considerably reduces the risk of an “event.” Safety should always come first, but it’s not uncommon to find purge timers in old panels with the dial pegged at zero. Read More

Commissioning Shouldn’t Take a (Literal) Lifetime

In the past, everything took forever. Lifespans were shorter, the world was larger, and mysteries were everywhere. We’ve progressed to the point where we can hardly stand to wait for anything, and yet, one still hears stories of excruciatingly lengthy furnace commissioning. The progression from construction to useful production on your new industrial furnace should Read More

The Proper Way to Light a Burner

Something we share in common with most other animals in nature is a drive for individual survival and the survival of the species. If your environment happens to include industrial furnaces and/or ovens, employing the proper way to light a burner is key to the safety of yourself and those around you. Our ability to Read More

The Mysterious Art of Burner Tuning

Burners should be tuned on a regular basis to capture peak performance and efficiency. Referencing the manufacturer’s literature and keeping a log of past settings makes tuning the modern burner a straightforward and scientific task. Once you know how to tune burners, watching the uninitiated try their hand at it can be amusing at best, Read More

Heat Rises?

There’s a common misconception that heat rises. It does not. Heat radiates equally in all directions. The misunderstanding comes from the true and observable statement that, relative to cooler air, hot air rises. That’s why hot air balloons work, also why many politicians have excellent posture. For commercial and industrial heating, knowing that heat and Read More

It’s Not Alive!

Baron von Olsträd’s Sketchbook #8 Baron von Olsträd’s new comic pokes fun at perceptions. Though the literary Frankenstein’s Monster was calculating and coldly intelligent, most people seem to think of this character as brainless and bumbling, maybe even goofy. It’s all a matter of how the character is portrayed commonly, and the instances with which Read More

 
 

Combustion 911

600 Mogadore Rd. Kent, OH 44240

Phone 330-678-3683

Email: support_ab@combustion911.com

View Terms and Conditions

Privacy Policy

©2024 Olstrad Engineering All Rights Reserved

Visit Combustion 911 on LinkedInVisit Combustion 911 on FacebookVisit Combustion 911 on TwitterWatch Combustion 911 videos on YouTubeEmail Combustion 911Read Articles on the Combustion 911 Blog
Olstrad Corporation
ESA Industrial Burners IHEA Member Elektrogas Valves and Regulators

Need a quote? Have a Question?