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OTT Brookhaven Trip (Steamhead)
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Say, what is the manufacturer of the Green burner? those chocolate 48" pipe wrenches ought to last a life time:)
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If you've never been here
you really should come. Thirteen of us gathered on Long Island to see some of the latest technology. Here Alan greets those of us who have just dragged out of bed.....
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Chocolate Tools!
Donna Santoro, Mike's wife, made these realistic-looking tools out of chocolate!
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Security Check
Believe it or not, we made it through.
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The Gang
From left to right: Ron Schroeder and Tom Butcher of Brookhaven, Rich Bruno, Chris Aiello, Rick Taylor, Alan Mercurio, Bill "Not the science guy" Nye, Eleft, Rich Schmidt, Scott Lutz, Steve Thomas, Janis Grundmann, Constantin von Wetzel, Mike Santoro.
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Transparent Firing Chamber
made of quartz, for studying flame characteristics. To the left is one of two Utica Starfire boilers used to compare low-sulfur oil with high-sulfur oil.
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Frank
Great meeting you again last night . I gotta ask , how are you uploading this stuff " in transit " ?0 -
Laptop
and a high-speed Internet connection in the hotel! Didn't wait till I got home to post all this.
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Some hydrogen fuel cells.....
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Remote Boiler Monitoring display
explained by Tom Butcher.
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Eleft
asks one of many questions as Bill Nye looks on.....
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Some of the equipment they're working with:
Here's a Quietside boiler.......
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Room heater with vaporizing burner from Japan
Didn't get the name, maybe someone can help me out.
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Starfire #2
as Rich Bruno looks on.
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The Oil Burner Room
"Becketts, Riellos and Carlins- oh my!"
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Babington air-jet low-capacity burner
The U.S. Marines use this in the field, for heating rations and other things.
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Mr. Yusuf shows us
a European low-NOx burner. (I hope I spelled your name right, Yusuf!)
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Some more low-NOx burners....
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Particulate measuring station
for paricles 25 microns and smaller, featuring a Weil-McLain WGO and a Thermo-Dynamics. It was found that low-sulfur oil produces much less of these small particles.
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Multi-Oil Modulating & Condensing Boiler
from Switzerland I believe. One of these will be installed at the OTT training center also.
The Multi-Oil has a viewing port in back......
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Rich takes a look
thru the back of the Multi-Oil. Nice blue flame!
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Multi-Oil with cover opened......
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Despite what you might think
the label on this bottle means "Low Sulfur Diesel" fuel..... ;-)
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Tom Butcher's Presentation
in the conference room wrapped up our day. You can still see some of those chocolate tools.
We had a great time. Thanks to Tom, Ron, Yusuf and everyone else at Brookhaven National Labs and Alan Mercurio of Oil Tech Talk for making this happen!
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Thanks for the photos
Frank.
This is what makes the Wall SO Cool !!
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Plus,
It's hard evidence that Chris actually showed up for the BNL tour, eh? :-)0 -
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Steamhead, Thanks for being our official reporter and photographer I really appreciate that. See you at OilStock my friend.
Al, you're welcome and thank you for your kind words and continues support of Oil Tech Talk. You Sir are always a pleasure to around
Your friend in the industry,
Alan R. Mercurio
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Ouch!
A lack of sleep could make a person look that way!
Thanks Alan , and everyone at BNL. I enjoyed myself, just didn't get enough rest.
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Forgot one
This is an oil-fired absorption-cycle chiller, made by the Broad Co. in China.
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Constantin.
I even made it back !
I decided to move all my Monday appointments in the east, to this morning and (Barely) made the second to last ferry this evening.
Thanks Steamhead for the photo essay.I haven't yet had the time to see what mine look like. If I have anything different, I'll post it in the morning. G'night all. Chris0 -
HeatWise I believe
if that's wrong, someone correct me.
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You're 100% correct my friend!
Your friend in the industry,
Alan R. Mercurio
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