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Boiler and Combustion Controls

Providing Tangible Value for Boiler and Combustion Control

At Cross Company, our key value drivers center around customer success. With a focus on innovation, we aim to help our customers grow their businesses. Take a look at how we provide tangible results for this industry and learn more about our Innovate, Grow, Transform initiative.

Precision Control for Enhanced Efficiency

Our advanced technologies allow for fine-tuned adjustments, optimizing combustion efficiency and fuel utilization. Experience increased energy output while minimizing waste.

Meet Regulatory Standards

Cross Company ensures that your systems comply with industry standards and regulations, providing the confidence that comes with adherence to safety and environmental protocols.

Innovative Technologies for Future-Proofing

Our solutions are designed not only to meet current industry demands but also to position your operations for the challenges and opportunities of tomorrow.
Our advanced technologies allow for fine-tuned adjustments, optimizing combustion efficiency and fuel utilization. Experience increased energy output while minimizing waste.
Cross Company ensures that your systems comply with industry standards and regulations, providing the confidence that comes with adherence to safety and environmental protocols.
Our solutions are designed not only to meet current industry demands but also to position your operations for the challenges and opportunities of tomorrow.

Expert Biofuel Combustion Control

In an effort to shift to sustainable, environmentally responsible energy production, many companies are shifting to renewable biomass and away from burning non-renewable carbon-rich fuels such as coal and oil. Biomass can come from chipped trees (typically the leftovers from lumber or paper production), construction debris, corn stover, switchgrass, dried manure, organic waste from the production of food or ethanol, and many other sources.

Biofuel boilers are also frequently configured to burn waste streams that aren’t renewable, such as MSW (Municipal Solid Waste), TDF (Tire-Derived Fuel), or creosote-treated rail ties. These boilers are often configured for cogeneration (where steam is run through a turbine to generate electrical power, then extracted for local heating).

Sometimes these boilers are required to act like a thermal oxidizer to ensure organic pollutants are fully combusted.

If you’re regularly working with boilers or controlled combustion reactions, we’d love to hear from you. Our process experts can optimize your process, replace underperforming components, audit your control systems, and much more to ensure that you’re performing at peak efficiency.

Common Applications

Alternative Fuels

Coal

Natural Gas

Oil

Stoker Feeders

Wood-Fired & Chip Feeders

Waste Fuel Burners

Fluidized Bed Technologies

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Products for Boiler and Combustion Control Operations

Explore our extensive range of power generation-specific products, including advanced instrumentation, control systems, process control technologies, and products tailored to enhance the reliability and efficiency of boiler and combustion processes.

Products for Boiler and Combustion Control Operations

Explore our extensive range of power generation-specific products, including advanced instrumentation, control systems, process control technologies, and products tailored to enhance the reliability and efficiency of boiler and combustion processes.

Services for Boiler and Combustion Control Operations

Benefit from our specialized services, including process automation, preventive maintenance, and training programs, ensuring the continued reliability and optimal performance of your power generation devices like boilers or combustion equipment control.

Services for Boiler and Combustion Control Operations

Benefit from our specialized services, including process automation, preventive maintenance, and training programs, ensuring the continued reliability and optimal performance of your power generation devices like boilers or combustion equipment control.

Solutions for Boiler and Combustion Control Operations

From custom process control designs to advanced control systems, Cross Company provides comprehensive solutions that optimize the boiler or combustion control processes. Cross can help you enhance the efficiency, safety, and resilience of your process operations.

Solutions for Boiler and Combustion Control Operations

From custom process control designs to advanced control systems, Cross Company provides comprehensive solutions that optimize the boiler or combustion control processes. Cross can help you enhance the efficiency, safety, and resilience of your process operations.

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Experience With Multiple Boiler Technologies

Since our inception in 1991, Cross Company Process Control Integration has completed well over 75 boiler controls projects ranging in size from small 35 KPPH package boilers up to 500 KPPH industrial boilers. We have experience with multiple boiler technologies, fuels and auxiliary control systems for virtually any hardware platform.

We can help provide the best control option for your application. Our experience ranges from a small PLC or single loop controllers on the small boilers to a fully integrated Distributed Control System (DCS) on the larger applications. In many of these instances, third-party equipment is typically integrated into the control system. Our engineers are highly skilled in incorporating multiple, dissimilar pieces of equipment into a complete package.

Extensive Experience

Full Process Control Solutions

Strategic Industry Partnerships

World-Class Customer Service

Boiler and Combustion Expertise

Challenges Of Biomass Combustion

Burning biomass in boilers has many challenges over and above the standard challenges from burning coal or oil:

  • The energy density is considerably less, so more mass and volume of fuel must be burned to obtain an equivalent heat value.
  • Water content is often significant, also resulting in more fuel being required to obtain the necessary heat value.
  • A larger proportion of the fuel is typically inert ash, so together with the larger amount of fuel required to obtain the necessary heat, ash production can be far higher than with coal producing equivalent heat.
  • Material handling is more challenging. Biomass is almost always fibrous, which is more challenging to handle than liquid, chunks of coal, or pulverized coal powder. Biomass also often comes in a very wide variety of sizes, and (especially if construction debris is part of the source stream) can contain foreign material such rebar and nails, or good material that is too large, such as whole lumber.
  • Emission controls are challenging to a degree similar to coal, but with different specifics. This is especially true when burning waste streams such as MSW, TDF, and creosote-treated lumber, in which complete combustion must be assured.
  • Biofuel boilers with grates are far more subject to piling, where unburned biofuel builds up on one section of the grate while burning well on other sections. This reduces efficiency, maximum load, and forms clinkers.

Biofuel combustion controls, therefore, have corresponding challenges over and above the standard challenges from controlling the combustion of coal or oil:

  • There is typically far more fuel and ash handling equipment relative to what would be required for the same steam production from burning coal.
  • More auxiliary equipment is often required.
  • Combustion is often less consistent due to varying water content, fuel quality & size, so the amount of air needed at a particular load is much more variable.
  • The flow of biomass into the boiler is typically not measured – and if it is, the heat value is still unknown – so traditional cross-limiting does not work, and flow must be assumed or estimated from belt scales and screw speeds.

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How Can Cross Company Help?

At Cross Company, our focus is on our customers. Whether it’s a simple on-site calibration or testing of complex systems, we always provide the same world-class, customer-focused service. And we can provide it for your boiler and combustion control needs, too.

With our focus on customer service and satisfaction, we can make sure you get the systems and inspection services you need to smoothly run your operation. From routine maintenance to quick repairs to ongoing monitoring, we work directly with all of our customers to make sure their needs are met.

When it comes to industrial boiler or combustion control applications, there are many unique challenges that call for an expert. Cross can be that expert for you. Contact us today to start the process.

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