Process gas burner specialists Lanemark Combustion Engineering Ltd. has completed the development of a new in-house testing facility which is set to enhance services to its customers – not least those in the micro- and mini-brewery industry. 

The Nuneaton-based organisation says the new resource will enable larger, more detailed equipment analysis to take place while also helping to optimise customers’ emission controls. 

“Our range is based on process tank, oven and duct heating systems through, respectively, our TX, FD, FDB and DB series,” said Jeff Foster, Lanemark’s Sales Director, “and much of this is directly relevant to the brewing sector – from brewing operations to hop drying.”

In all cases, Lanemark says its success is centred on supplying the optimum configuration for each customer’s needs – it has developed, for example, a helical coil heat-exchanger tube arrangement which helps to optimise brewing vessel capacity. 

It believes that it is vital for the company’s equipment to undergo the most rigorous testing and analysis procedures – both during product development and pre-installation phases.  “This new facility will make a major contribution in this context,” added Foster.

The announcement now of the company’s enhanced capability in this area will build on the role played by Lanemark’s longstanding testing installation.  Jeff Foster is keen to highlight key areas in which the new installation will help optimise this important element of production. 

“We can now test a greater range of both tank and process air burners in terms of size and output with specified configurations to match precise operating conditions,” he said.  He  points out that this now includes the company’s largest tank heating burner design, the TX80, using an 8” N.B. submersed tube heat exchanger.

“A wider range of emissions can also be monitored including NOx, SO2, CO2, CO and O2 as a result of the new facility incorporating a Horiba PG-350 flue gas analyser,” Jeff Foster explains.