New-age refractory materials are truly “space age”. I have a success story regarding the RSI’s Gemcolite refractory.

A municipal waste water treatment plant was having operating difficulties with two identical sludge heaters. The heaters are a packaged unit of a boiler and a tube heat exchanger, fired primarily with waste digester gas, with natural gas as the stand-by fuel.

Poor combustion and flame symmetry, with resulting carbon, ash, and impurity deposits had plagued the units. Fireside corrosion was a real problem. The customer was fully prepared to replace the entire burner assemblies at great expense.

I contacted RSI, and together we designed a combustion chamber that provides a “space age” solution to the problems, AND saved the customer many tens of thousands of dollars in repair costs.

I hope you enjoy the slideshow!

 Bob Stammer