The Cleaver-brooks Company, Inc.

Dillon Gushard

Meenatchinathan Vasudevan

Paul Brown

Nick Ferguson

Thermal efficiency systems and methods are provided for installation and use in boiler plants. Thermal efficiency systems include a reservoir, a plurality of heat scavengers, a plurality of heat sinks, and a control system. Each heat scavenger can receive system fluid, extract excess heat from a heated plant fluid, and provide the extracted heat into the system fluid to create heated system fluid. Each heat sink can receive and remove heat from heated system fluid to create cooled system fluid. The controller generates and sends control signals to selectively activate one or more of a plurality of valves to control amount of system fluid directed to each heat scavenger and each heat sink.

Thermal efficiency system and method for boiler plant

Auxiliary boiler systems, and methods of implementing and/or operating auxiliary boiler systems, are disclosed herein. In one example embodiment, an auxiliary boiler system for use in conjunction with a main steam source includes an auxiliary boiler, a deaerator coupled directly to and integrated with the auxiliary boiler, and a condensate storage tank coupled at least indirectly to the deaerator. Also, in another example embodiment, a method of implementing an auxiliary boiler system for use in conjunction with a main steam source includes setting a condensate storage tank in relation to a first support structure at a first position, and setting an auxiliary boiler at a second position. The method further includes directly coupling a deaerator to the auxiliary boiler so that the deaerator is integrated with the auxiliary boiler, and installing at least one interconnection by which the condensate storage tank is at least indirectly coupled to the deaerator.

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Lincoln, NE, United States of America

Dillon Gushard