Boilers seek proof at Michigan

WEST LAFAYETTE – Sometimes humiliation is a great motivator. Just ask Purdue linebacker Chris Carlino and the rest of the Boiler defense.

Nobody has forgotten the way Wisconsin steamrolled that defense with 266 rushing yards six days ago. Now Purdue heads to Michigan on Saturday and redemption is a top priority.

“We all feel we have something to prove,” Carlino said. “Getting beat like that gives you a sense that you have to re-establish yourself.”

The Boilers (3-6) have no margin for error, in part because they have to win their final three games to become bowl eligible, in part because they haven’t won at Michigan (5-4) since 1966.

At least they face a struggling Wolverine team. Michigan has lost four of its last five games after a 4-0 start. In the last two weeks it lost at Penn State 35-10 and at Illinois 38-13. The Illini had been winless in the Big Ten.

Still, coach Danny Hope doesn’t see the Wolverines as being vulnerable.

“They strike fast on offense and they’re quick on defense,” Hope said. “They have a lot of talented players. They’ve had some mishaps in games that have cost them. They’ve had some turnovers and unfortunate events. They weren’t that far off in some of the games they’ve lost. They have great players and make some great plays. Lots of them.”

Michigan wins with offense. It leads the Big Ten in scoring (31.6 points) and rushing offense (207.6 yards). It is seventh in the conference in scoring defense, allowing 25.1 points.

“Michigan’s offense does a great job of keeping them in the game,” quarterback Joey Elliott said, “so our defense will have to step up.”

The Wolverines are not a power-running team like Wisconsin. They utilize a spread attack that has enabled six players to rush for at least 181 yards. Tailback Carlos Brown leads with 465 yards.

“They’re fast and good,” Hope said. “They spread you out and get the ball to (their playmakers) in a hurry. It happens fast so you’d better get there in a hurry or they’ll be gone.”

Michigan plays two quarterbacks and both can run. Denard Robinson is the better runner. He’s rushed for 287 yards and five touchdowns while averaging 5.4 yards a carry. Tate Forcier has rushed for 214 yards and averages 2.5 yards a carry.

Forcier is the main passer. He’s 107-for-193 for 1,424 yards, nine touchdowns and five interceptions. Robinson is just 11-for-22 for 179 yards, two touchdowns and four interceptions.

“I don’t look at either one of them as being that much different,” Hope said. “Maybe they choose to use them differently, but both of those guys can really run and really throw. They’re exceptional athletes. (Robinson) was the fastest guy in the state of Florida last year. He’s really fast. Both of them are top-of-the-line passers and runners. I don’t see defending them differently.”

While the statistics show Michigan’s defensive liabilities (it is also sixth against the pass and eighth against the run), Elliott sees plenty of potential trouble.

“Their linebackers are very good and they have tremendous athletes,” he said. “They have athletes all over the field.”
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Turnover margin drags Boilers down

Jaycen Taylor, Aaron Valentin and the other Purdue players who fumbled last week won’t be seen carrying footballs around campus or be cradling them at bedtime.
Coach Danny Hope said there won’t be any gimmicks that will fix Purdue’s turnover issues, especially considering there wasn’t one common cause among the six the team had in a 27-21 loss to Northwestern.
Joey Elliott’s interception came because receiver Keith Smith didn’t run a crisp route, Hope said. Elliott’s fumble was because he couldn’t hold on while he was getting his face mask yanked.
Another fumble came because a player was holding the ball in the wrong arm, another when the ball was held too loosely.
So Hope has specific drills ready this week to work on ball protection.
One way is to capitalize on every minute of practice with punt and kick returners when they may not be in other drills, either by having a machine send balls their way or getting a punter to kick to them.
Valentin, also the team’s No. 2 receiver, has fumbled three punts and kicks the past three weeks.
Hope has a plan for other players, too.
“We’ll have the scout team try to reach in there and pull the ball out some when the ballcarriers are going by them when they’re in play and when they’re coming back to the huddle, try to work on stripping the ball from them some,” Hope said. “(A turnover) manifests itself in a lot of different ways, and so we’ll look at all those different things and try to work on all those different things. You have to go out there and practice those situations.”
Hope and his players think turnovers are the reason the team is 1-4, the program’s worst start since 1993. That team also started 1-4 – and finished 1-10.
Purdue is tied for 113th out of 120 Division I teams in turnover margin (minus 8 for season, minus 1.6 per game). Four of the six teams worse than the Boilermakers also have losing records.
“Every game, we’ve had a couple turnovers that have changed the game,” Smith said. “But all in all, we’ve found a way to still be in it at the end of the game. It’s a couple turnovers away of being with a winning record. We’ve got to work on those little things. The little things turn into big things like they have in the last couple games. We’ll go out this week and get ready to go (for Minnesota).”
Part of evening out that dismal margin is limiting mistakes, but Purdue also can improve on it by getting its defense to force more turnovers.
The Boilermakers are eighth in the Big Ten in creating turnovers. They have recovered five fumbles and have four interceptions;only one of those picks is by a defensive back.
“When (the coaches) sat down and talked about the areas we turned the ball in the other day in the game and I said, ‘Anything else?’ The defensive coaches said, ‘Yeah, we need to get some more,’ ” Hope said. “So it’s recognized, and we have the guys to do that. Pressuring the quarterback is a big part of that. It’s the style of offenses you play against.
“We’d like to accrue more takeaways – that’s for sure.”
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Oxygen analyser helps keep boilers burning cleanly

Users of small industrial boilers need no longer be faced with the economic constraints of applying continuous online oxygen monitoring techniques for optimising energy efficiency.

Users of small industrial boilers need no longer be faced with the economic constraints of applying continuous online oxygen monitoring techniques for optimising energy efficiency, following the launch of ABB's AnalyzeIT AZ100 Zirconia oxygen analyser system.

Aimed primarily at the OEM market for boilers up to 5MW where oxygen monitoring is particularly price-critical, the new ABB analyser system provides an easy-to-use, highly cost-effective solution to maximum combustion efficiency and minimum oxygen flue emissions.
Previously, cost considerations have limited small boiler operators to using portable devices for oxygen checking on a regular basis.
Now, the price of the new ABB AZ100 system with its integral ABB 4600-based electronics platform brings economic viability to time-saving continuous online analysis.
The newly designed Zirconia oxygen probe is a key cost-saving feature.
Unlike ABB's high-end in-situ devices, it is a "limpet" type which sits on the outside of flue duct.
Flue gas samples are drawn up through a tube within the duct and directed to where the sensor is mounted.
A mains powered heater within the probe eliminates the need for expensive transformers and, since reference air is supplied by diffusion of ambient air, there is no need for the usual in-built air pumping facility.
The probe, available in length options of 200, 350, 500 and 650mm, operates in process temperatures from ambient to 600C and up to a maximum external duct wall temperature of 400C.
With a response speed of less than three seconds and a typical sensor life span of at least four to five years, the ABB AZ100 oxygen analyser brings to the small boiler market many of the benefits which have come to be internationally recognised with ABB high-end Zirconia ZFG/ZMT systems.
Protected to NEMA 4X/IP66 for reliable operation in demanding environments, the new AZ100 oxygen analyser employs a dedicated transmitter based on ABB's highly successful 4600 Series for interfacing the probe.
It is user-programmable and has a comprehensive diagnostics facility with in-built software.
High/low alarms and linear or logarithmic isolated retransmission are featured, together with displays which include percentage oxygen, cell temperature, cell millivolts, alarm set points, calibration sequence diagnostics and output settings.
Information displays can be programmed for English, French, German or Spanish languages.
The ABB AnalyzeIT AZ100 Zirconia oxygen analyser meets the requirement for the EN50081-1 general emission standard for residential, commercial and light industry, and the EN50082-2 generic immunity standard for industrial environments.
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BHEL and IITM organize 3-day International workshop on CFBC boilers

Tiruchirappalli: The Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (IITM) and the FBC & HRSG (Fluidised Bed Combustion and Heat Recovery Steam Generators) group of Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL), Tiruchirappalli jointly conducted a three day international workshop on 'Fluid Dynamic Scaling, Design and Instrumentation of Cold Models and Practical issues of CFBC Boilers'.

The International workshop was attended by FBC experts from Sweden, Germany, Canada and Australia in addition to professors from IITM, NIT, Tiruchirappalli, BHEL’s Corporate R&D officials and engineering groups from BHEL, Tiruchirappalli.

Explaining BHEL’s involvement in the development of FBC technology, A V Krishnan, Executive Director, BHEL, Tiruchirappalli, said that BHEL pioneered the research in Fluidised bed combustion as early as 1975.

He said that the company had built test facilities of Bubbling-bed and Circulating Fluidised-bed, for testing newer fuels and the data was used in the design of commercial units. He also said that BHEL was currently executing many CFBC projects of 125 MWe capcity, firing medium-to-high sulphur lignite of Gujarat and Rajasthan and two projects at Neyveli of 250 MWe capacity CFBC units.

Delivering the keynote address on the inaugural session, Mr. A V Krishnan, said that, as global climatic change programmes being pressed hard, BHEL’s quest had been towards clean energy and clean combustion. Mr STH Rizvi, ED (Coporate Engineering and Product Development-CEPD), BHEL, New Delhi, in his special address, said that BHEL’s responses to climate change were IGCC (Integrated Gasifier Combined Cycle) and supercritical technology.

Pointing out BHEL’s readiness in meeting the country’s power requirement by increasing its manufacturing capacity, Mr Rizvi said that every one per cent increase in GDP of the nation could be achieved with two percent increase in energy requirement.

Mr M Karunakara Reddy, General Manager (FBC& HRSG) welcomed the gathering and briefed about the developmental growth of CFBC technology.

Mr. A V Krishnan urged the experts attending the workshop to deliberate all technical issues connected with CFBC technology and wanted the 'scale-down' studies to optimize the performance of the commercial plant by as closely representing the operating characteristics as possible in the scaled-down model.

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More 'green' biomass boilers could be on the way

Bradford Council hopes to build a new storage unit in the city’s Peel Park to house the wood chippings it needs to fuel two biomass boilers.

The boilers were installed at City Hall and Ilkley Town Hall last year as part of the Council’s pledge to reduce its carbon emissions by 20 per cent by 2010/11.

Many of the wood chippings used to power the boilers come from timber taken from the authority’s estates and woodlands.

In January last year the Telegraph & Argus reported that the district’s nine civic Christmas trees were turned into chippings to fuel the wood-burning boilers. In addition, trees cut down as part of a restoration of Roberts Park in Saltaire have been turned into woodchips to be used in the boilers.

Now the Council wants to increase its storage facilities to help it save nearly £60,000 a year through the new technology.

The authority is also considering installing similar biomass boilers at other Council buildings in a drive to cut its emissions.

A Council spokesman said: “There is a planning application to increase the size of a shed at Peel Park which stores wood chippings. The wood chippings are used in biomass boilers at Bradford City Hall and Ilkley Town Hall.

“The boilers are fuelled by the woodchips which are collected from Leisure Services. The boiler at City Hall could provide up to £50,000 per year savings and up to £7,000 per year at Ilkley Town Hall.

“The additional storage for wood chippings at Peel Park would give us the opportunity to try the biomass technology at additional locations and other Council buildings.”

The Council also wants to deliver 20 per cent of the power it uses through renewable sources by 2020. Solar power technology is already in place at Bradford Central Library.

The target date for the application to be determined is Tuesday, September 15.

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swimming pool covers and condensing boilers save energy

VALE of Glamorgan energy manager David Powell says it’s important that the authority sets a good example to the community by being as energy efficient as possible.

It is committed to improving its environmental credentials, including energy efficiency and reducing carbon emissions.

Working with the Carbon Trust to produce a carbon management reduction strategy, it has secured 50% match funding to create a “spend to save” fund of just under £500,000.

Buildings are being systematically surveyed to identify need for extra insulation and other measures and the fund is replenished through savings made.

Other measures include swimming pool covers, improved heating controls, radiator reflector panels, high efficiency condensing boilers, improved lighting emitters and controls and voltage reduction equipment.

SMART meters were installed to collect information on how much energy is used in each half hour period daily and can highlight if equipment is left on unnecessarily.

Five primary schools took part in the RWE nPower-sponsored climate cops programme and children can now point out to others when energy is being wasted.

A two-year realising resources programme with Groundwork Bridgend Neath Port Talbot involves 25 primary schools and is supported with European funding.

Teachers and pupils learn to read utility meters and track how much energy is being used.

The aim is to reduce consumption by 10% within each school and also looks at water use and waste produced.

Almost all housing stock has been insulated and high efficiency condensing gas boilers are being installed where practical.

The authority is committed to all departments achieving Green Dragon Environmental award level 1 by 2010 – many already have, with one achieving the highest level 5.

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