Did You Know? All about Miura's Green Design

In today’s increasingly eco-conscious business landscape, the decision to opt for an environmentally friendly industrial steam boiler is a step many organizations take to help achieve their corporate environmental targets. With heightened public awareness surrounding climate change and growing stringent regulatory measures, embracing green technologies is not just a matter of compliance but an opportunity to position your brand as industry leaders. By investing in energy-efficient steam boilers that significantly reduce emissions and minimize your carbon footprint, you can not only contribute to a cleaner environment but also unlock long-term operational savings.

Miura’s LX- and EX-Series steam boilers with their green design, are industry leaders in efficiency. Our high efficiency systems with their ability to produce steam with as little energy waste as possible, and low CO2 and NOx emissions are considered the greener option. Miura’s Water Treatment options are a safe and clean way to protect against boiler scale and mineral build up. Together, we can pave the way for a more sustainable and prosperous future.

Miura's LX & EX-Series Boilers

A Once-Through Watertube Boiler Design for Quicker Startups

Traditional firetube boilers rely on heat passing from the burner flame through a series of horizontal fire tubes that heat the surrounding water and generate steam. Heat loss is inevitable as heat travels further from the burner through the firetubes. Whereas, Miura’s boilers have vertical water tubes within a compact pressure vessel, that are surrounded by flame. With each water tube’s surface area covered directly by flame, water can heat up quickly to produce steam with one pass through the water tubes. Both Miura’s LX & EX-Series of boilers’ once-through boiler design produces steam from a cold start-up in under five minutes!

With Miura’s quick-startup boilers, customers can save up to 20% on energy costs annually. Leading to a significant reduction in CO₂ output, helping our customers hit their green initiative targets and save money.

Low Water Volume Design for Optimal Heat Transfer

One of the critical factors influencing boiler efficiency is how much heat is transferred to the water creating steam. The more efficient a boiler is the minimal the energy loss will be with a maximum amount of heat being generated. High In-Service Efficiency is taking all factors of the boilers operation into account when calculating that efficiency.

Miura boilers use a low water content design built to optimize heat transfer. In contrast to traditional boilers that contain a high volume of water, Miura’s system consists of a series of tubes within the pressure vessel with roughly 10% of the water in a traditional boiler.

Low NOx Emissions

Efficiency isn’t just about conserving energy and costs; it’s also about reducing the number of harmful emissions. One key emissions standard is the amount of harmful nitrogen oxide (NOx) released into the environment. When a gas boiler is considered low NOx or ultra-low NOx, it releases far fewer of these harmful agents into the environment, and you can safely say you have a “green” boiler system. This is why environmentally conscious companies prefer modular water tube boilers, and why you should care about your own boiler’s NOx emissions.

The LX-Series is specifically designed to meet or exceed low NOx emissions standards. The end result is a boiler system with cleaner exhaust gases that can help your company meet its sustainability goals, and even help with LEED certification.

Flue Gas Recirculation for Lower Emissions

Some of Miura’s EX-Series boilers take advantage of flue gas recirculation (FGR) during gas combustion. This is when a portion of the exhaust gas is mixed with fresh air to be reused during combustion. Recycling flue gas helps ensure optimum combustion and reduce emissions.

FGR only operates during gas combustion and not during oil combustion, so it won’t work if the boiler uses #2 fuel oil. It’s also only optional with an economizer, which preheats the feedwater using the exhaust.

Multiple Installation (MI) System for On-Demand Steam

Conventional boilers often run at all hours to meet a facilities’ steam and heat requirements, even when the steam required is relatively low. By contrast, with Miura’s modular systems, individual units that are not needed can be shut off or placed in standby mode, as each module can be quickly and efficiently restarted “on-demand” as steam demands increase. On-demand steam ultimately means reduced fuel combustion, in fact, facilities that make the switch to a Miura modular boiler system enjoy an average 20% savings in annual fuel costs.

N+1 Redundancy with MI

Miura’s modular boilers fit well for facilities with N+1 redundancy requirements. A smaller, equally powerful Miura unit can be added removing the need to add an additional largescale boiler to your steam room infrastructure. Instead, you can add one additional modular boiler to diversify, mitigate risk and save space.

Miura's Water Treatment Options

Better Water Treatment Gets Better Efficiency

Water quality is incredibly important to both efficiency and the longevity of your boiler. Boiler Scale, caused by minerals contained in hard boiler feed water, scale can clog your boiler’s pipes. The significance of this is that, when boilers have reduced heat transfer, you spend more money on fuel.

With proper water treatment, you can soften your feed water and keep mineral solids from sticking to the pipe walls. This keeps your boiler running at peak condition, and operating at a high level of efficiency. Saving one future repairs and sudden shut-downs as well as cutting fossil fuel usage.

Environmentally Friendly Water Treatment

Miura’s BOILERMATE® water treatment chemicals are environmentally-friendly and controls the corrosive ions without the need for additional harmful chemicals. Made with naturally-occurring Silicate, Boilermate is ideal to be used for green water treatment in Miura’s once-through boilers This environmentally-friendly product supplements Miura’s other “green” benefits and provides our customers with the best possible water treatment. Miura manufactures BOILERMATE® in our facility in Brantford, Ontario for consistent quality and an unbroken supply chain.

Food Safe Boiler Chemicals

Food safe boiler chemicals are a key part of proper water treatment for steam systems in facilities with food production, processing or packaging lines. Carryover of boiler water minerals and chemicals into steam could bring off-flavours, or contaminate food and surfaces with chemicals. Miura’s Boilermate has had the Canadian Food Inspection Agency’s W1, Food Safe approval since 2010. The main ingredient of Miura’s BOILERMATE® is silica, a corrosion inhibitor. Silica is a naturally-occurring material ideal for water treatment in Miura’s once-through boilers.

A turn-key steam system from Miura could make the difference in your energy consumption and therefore your bottom line. For more information about how a Miura boiler system can help your facility meet it’s green goals reach out to our experienced sales and engineering team today.

Did You Know? All about Miura’s Green Design

Miura's LX & EX-Series Boilers

A Once-Through Watertube Boiler Design for Quicker Startups

Low Water Volume Design for Optimal Heat Transfer

Low NOx Emissions

Flue Gas Recirculation for Lower Emissions

Multiple Installation (MI) System for On-Demand Steam

N+1 Redundancy with MI

Miura's Water Treatment Options

Better Water Treatment Gets Better Efficiency

Environmentally Friendly Water Treatment

Food Safe Boiler Chemicals

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