Ensuring Safety of Fuel-Fired Equipment Through Compliance Testing & Training
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2. To ensure safety of personnel within their work environment,
while increasing efficiency and reliability of fuel-fired equipment.
We believe that our work each day helps saves lives
& prevents explosions at facilities around the world.
3. • Supporting your safety efforts since 1984
• Engineers with industry experience
• National and international capabilities, experience & expertise
• Creation & implementation of corporate-wide programs
• Industry leaders - NFPA 85, NFPA 86, NFPA 56, ASME CSD-1,
& NBIC committee members
• Objective code-based recommendations & designs
• WE DON’T REPRESENT MANUFACTURERS!
4. Over 200 key clients - most are global Fortune 500 companies
5. CEC has developed a comprehensive approach to combustion safety that we
call PPE – which stands for People, Policies, and Equipment.
PEOPLE who maintain, operate, or supervise those
working with combustion equipment or fuel systems
are trained through hands-on instruction, online
coursework and a combustion safety assessment
program.
POLICIES are constructed or changed to ensure that
the most up-to-date technical information and best
practices are used in the purchase, installation and
operation of combustion and fuel systems.
Finally EQUIPMENT is screened for its compliance
with current safety codes. Deficiencies are identified,
safety interlock testing is performed, and equipment
is upgraded and standardized.
6. Testing & Inspections Customized Training
Upgrades & Engineering Gas Hazards Management
7. Combustion Equipment Compliance Testing - The most
comprehensive, consistent and disciplined third-party
combustion system equipment inspection and testing program in
the industry.
• Over 1,000 pieces of equipment
per year
• Code required testing
• Engineering review of systems
versus established codes
• Online reporting & tracking
8. • Root Cause Analysis
• Equipment Retrofits
• Emergency Service
• Safety Upgrades
• Burner Tuning
10. • Site & job specific purging plans
• On-site outage & job support
• Site hazard assessments
• Corrosion control
• Compliance Programs
11. 1. Explosion and fire risk reduction
2. Asset life extension
3. Strategic allocation of capital
4. Fuel savings
5. Reduced unscheduled outages
6. Enhanced quality/temperature control
7. Displace existing services
8. Better access to insurers
12. Boiler Inspector
• Enforces Jurisdictional Issues only
• Can change year to year
• Usually once a year for a half hour
• No formal fuel gas safety control training
Property Insurance Risk Engineer
• Focus is big loss Fire Protection
• Can change year to year
• No formal fuel gas oven/furnace training
• May or may not visit your site
Local Service Contractor
• Limited knowledge of codes no insightful access
• Only limited testing & no gap analysis
• Inconsistent amongst platform with training and scope
• No overall management system
13. 15 Equipment specific checklists
• 140 points per checklist
– Over 35 testable safety interlocks
– Over 105 engineering issues
• Installation
• Code
• Operations
• Maintenance
• Training
• Technological advances
14. Annual Critical Findings
1.000
A client of CEC: Critical items reduced
0.900
by more than 50% in 5 years
0.879
0.800
0.701
Criticals Per System
0.700
0.606
0.577
0.600
Client One (330 Systems)
0.500
Client Two (175 systems)
0.400
0.260
0.300
0.327
0.181
0.200
0.202 0.197
0.186
0.100
0.000
1 2 3 4 5
Time (Years)
15. Identifying critical, mandatory & awareness items
Automatic gas valves Refractory failures Fuel train valves
leaking In closed position not rated for fuel use
16. Proprietary risk ranking process based on OSHA risk assessment models
Each item is graded based on the following criteria:
a) Severity
b) Adequacy of current controls
c) Urgency (i.e. Potential value vs. cost to implement)
Once graded, items can be ranked
& prioritized based on potential risk
reduction impact.
17. • Secure online
inspection report
tracking & delivery
• Provides up to date
status of inspections
• Tracks completion of
critical items
• Detailed summary of
inspection results
• Detailed equipment
backgrounds
18. Multi-plant site Average cost per site for program services:
optimization program
$15,000
Average direct utility savings per site:
$190,000
Average simple payback:
< 0.6 years
Average utility savings achieved before
we left the site:
$40,000
19. • Protecting business continuity by reducing nuisance shut
downs and identifying issues that can damage equipment.
• Reducing risk and improving safety by identifying and
eliminating unsafe combustion system practices across all
facilities.
• Improving your bottom line by correcting operational
inefficiencies and discovering fuel cost savings.
• Documenting compliance immediately using our exclusive
global process and reporting systems; recognized as a best
practice and vetted by leading insurance providers.