Bloom Engineering, an international leader in the supply of combustion equipment, supports customers through headquarters in Pittsburgh, PA, USA. Worldwide sales and service is provided by wholly owned subsidiaries operating in Europe, a Chinese joint venture, and licensed partners and representatives. The Bloom family of companies specializes in problem solving through custom engineering rather than through a “catalog sales” approach. Bloom has gained a worldwide reputation for quality products, supported by first-class engineering and application expertise.

Bloom serves basic industry with particularly strong roots in steel and aluminum. Over forty years ago, Bloom pioneered the unique baffle burner concept. The baffle provides support to the burner fuel nozzle while shielding the burner internals from flame radiation. Baffle hole and port geometries determine flame characteristics such as shape and luminosity. Bloom burners use air staging and internal exhaust gas recirculation to suppress NO_x production.

Regenerative burner with media case

Additional products include controls, valves, prefabricated pipe racks, ladle and tundish drying and heating stations, and related combustion equipment. Repair, maintenance, burner upgrade and equipment remanufacturing services are also offered by Bloom. Bloom also offers qualified personnel for combustion tuning, training seminars and energy audits.

Most of the world recognizes the importance of reducing NO_x emissions. Although most of Bloom’s original burners were inherently low NO_x designs, modifications have lowered emissions even further. With the development of regenerative burners, Bloom’s low NO_x innovations successfully solved the challenges presented by this technology’s high air preheat temperatures. The extremely high thermal efficiency of a regenerative system offers the best offset available to escalating fuel costs. An additional and increasingly important benefit, high regenerative efficiency cuts CO₂ emissions, a greenhouse gas, in direct proportion to energy usage reductions when firing fossil fuels.

Bloom’s extensive research and development complex provides diversity and support to the core business. Bloom’s technology originates in a 10,000 square foot research and development facility housing over 20 fully instrumented furnaces. Degree-holding engineers and full time technicians staff the laboratory. Bloom has over 10 years experience with computational fluid dynamics and successfully applies modeling results to internal burner development projects. CFD is also used for studies on customer furnaces for modeling flame patterns, NO_x generation, and burner location to optimize heat transfer for the process. Bloom demands that burner innovations reach the market with uncompromised thermal performance, low emissions and the ability to use a wide range of liquid and gaseous fuels. As a result of emphasizing technology, Bloom has met every NO_x performance guarantee issued, a claim matched by few, if any, other manufacturers.

Bloom’s low NO_x product line spans the capacity range commonly used in industrial applications. It includes direct and radiant tube fired burners designed for cold air or hot air produced by recuperators or regenerators. Bloom’s products for air heaters, thermal oxidizers and boilers rank among the lowest NO_x producers available. Flare stack and other specialty burners round-out Bloom’s burner product line.

Bloom Engineering
5460 Horning Road
Pittsburgh, PA 15236

Tel: 412 653 3500
Fax: 412 653 2253
Email: info@bloomeng.com
Web: www.bloomeng.com

 

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