It’s all go at Mataura Valley Milk as we work through the commissioning phase of Project Recharge installing their new 20MW electrode boiler. This phase of the project is a bit different for an electrode boiler compared to a solid fuel boiler. There are no screws, conveyors or other moving parts to commission, no fans to align, or even combustion to tune (no fire to gaze at!) – but that doesn’t mean there isn’t work to do!

Boiler Circulation Pumps

Tuning an electrode boiler is still a critical and delicate process. Every project will have a different recipe of feedwater made up from the site’s water treatment and condensate conditions – it’s absolutely critical we can maintain the necessary boiler water conductivity to ensure we can produce steam at the highest efficiency possible (>99.5%).