Babcock Wanson (UK) Ltd

Gaseous and VOC (Volatile Organic Compounds) effluent produced by various manufacturing processes have to be treated before being discharged to the atmosphere in order to achieve the limits required by prevailing regulations.

Among the options offered by technology and enforced by regulations, the most effective and widely used for VOC and odour treatment is thermal oxidisers. This technology is indeed regarded as the best available control technology by the various agencies. Pollutant gases are heated to high temperature in a combustion chamber and are fully oxidised before being discharged.

We have experience with over 300 installations of thermal oxidisers for VOC and odour abatment, some with internal heat recovery, others using external heat recovery. We supply:

• Recuperative oxidisers
• Regenerative oxidisers
• Deodorising oxidisers

We have a unique expertise in boiler house water treatment solutions, demonstrated through thousands of installations.

• Softening
• Thermal fluid systems
• Decarbonisation
• Demineralisation by reverse osmosis
• Demineralisation by resin exchange
• Water treatment products

We provide a wide range of thermal fluid heaters for rental so your energy needs are always met whatever the situation.

Within the limit of certain output ranges, our reactive, flexible and economic solutions include boilers on skids or in containers. Our thermal fluid heater solutions include:

• Boiler fleet: more than 200 mobile boilers and boiler houses
• Boiler types: steam boilers, rapid steam generators, thermal fluid heaters, containerised boilers, skid-mounted boilers
• Boiler characteristics: new or recent, fully automatic, overhauled and inspected by approved organisations
• Boiler range: from 90 kW to 12,000 kW

Space and process heating are an essential requirement in any industry. We provide complete solutions from project conception to completion of installation.

Process Air Heaters include:

• Indirect fired air heaters up to 3,000 kW and 300 °C
• Direct fired air heaters from 3 to 10 t/h

Space Air Heaters include:

• Gas fired or transfer fluid heaters
• Air handling units and make-up air heaters
• Hot air generators
• Hot water boilers
• Other equipment

Our extensive team of skilled service engineers are fully qualified and trained to respond to any service needs related to your boiler house. We recommend our dedicated after-sales service contract, designed to meet the needs of your system. Our highly skilled and specialist after-sales service engineers use state of the art equipment to make whatever adjustments may be necessary. Spares and on-call services are also available as part of our comprehensive service facility.

We provide refurbishment and upgrade services for all of our steam, hot water and thermal fluid boilers and all your boiler house installation. We commit ourselves to offer you the most recent and suitable technology solutions in order to:

• Increase your output (temporary or permanent)
• Implement technical optimisations
• Upgrade your boilers to current standards as well as prepare for periodic third party inspections
• Refurbish and repair your installations
• Increase your installation efficiency

Babcock Wanson is fully committed to incorporating sustainability into our overall business strategy. The aim being to help our customers achieve their environmental goals.

Energy Efficiency:

One of the key factors in achieving very high levels of system energy efficiency is the ability of Babcock Wanson Products to work at high temperature in a simple, as complete as practicable, closed energy loop. This approach allows optimisation of energy transfer to reach efficiencies up to 97% (depending on the product and operating conditions) over the operating range of the boiler.

Babcock Wanson offers many options for optimisation and will work with our industrial clients to show the potential savings and highlight the best solutions for their applications.

Cost & Time Efficiency:

To help identify cost reductions and potential improvements in the operation of your boiler house, Babcock Wanson has developed a boiler house analysis tool which can quantify possible fuel savings before investment. This tool considers all the boiler house operating parameters, from water treatment to fuel input and exhaust emissions.

All Babcock Wanson products are designed for easy operation and our clients benefit from the associated cost control.

NOx & Emission Reduction:

Energy efficiency isn’t the only benefit offered by Babcock Wanson products;  environmentally friendly features are also key to helping them reduce their impact on the environment.

Nitrogen Oxides, abbreviated to NOx, have significant impacts on health and the environment. Produced at combustion plants, NOx emissions contribute to the acidification of natural environments, to photochemical pollution (smog) and to eutrophication (degradation of aquatic environments due to excessive plant growth).

Babcock Wanson’s team of combustion engineers have the goal to keep reducing the NOx generated from combustion, and to improve energy efficiency by virtue of an increase in the modulation range of our burners. The more closely the burner output matches the process demand, the fewer losses there are and the more efficient the overall process is.

By providing high efficiency solutions, CO₂ emissions are, as a consequence, also reduced.

Circular Economy:

Babcock Wanson aims to work with local suppliers of goods and services wherever practicable.

We also aim to reduce the transport distance of all materials delivered to our manufacturing sites.

Babcock Wanson follows these objectives and, by doing so, we work hard to respect the environment.  Our goal is to promote a circular economy that reduces the environmental impact associated with the life cycle and production of all our products.