FCT Combustion, with operations in Australia and the USA, recently announced that HORMICRETO, Cuenca, Ecuador, has placed an order for two calciner burners and a hot gas generator for its swing mill application, for their alternative liquid fuels firing, with a thermal capacity of 5.2 MW. This includes the complete fuel pumping system, heating and valve train. A calciner is a steel cylinder that rotates inside a heated furnace and performs indirect high-temperature processing (1000-2100 °F) within a controlled atmosphere.
Here is a list of some other orders that the company has handled:
• North America: two low-NOx GYRO-THERM MKII burning systems for coal, natural gas and solid alternative fuels firing
• North America: two TURBU-JET burner for petcoke and natural gas firing with FCT’s proprietary Lofting Air technology for solid alternative fuels Injection
• Wagner Cement, Australia: 9MW hot gas generator for cement mill for liquid alternative fuels firing
• DMKD, Ukraine: a TURBU-JET multifuel burner for coal, natural gas and biomass for a rotary lime kiln
• Double A, Thailand: three TURBU-JET burning systems for heavy oil, natural gas and NCG firing for its sludge lime plant.