We have a large job coming up, where the facility, has since day one have burnt oil, they now want to have the ability to burn either oil or natural gas. The area does not have natural gas, too mountainous, too few people and a poor utility infrastructure. They have decided to set the facility up as a burner of compressed natural gas, trucked to the facility in specially designed tank trailers. The compressed natural gas station, will have 10 tanker bays, with tank trailers in transit on a daily basis.
The original burner was sold as an oil burner with the possibility of future gas hook up. The original seller, sold the burner with the gas ring, but none of the other parts of the necessary for gas operation, so I’ve had to fabricate multiple pieces to get the burner set up for gas operation.
The needed (40) 3/8” stainless steel pipe x 4-1/4” gas spuds with (10) 3/16” gas holes, in a diamond pattern, with a sealed top.
I started with (40) 3/8” x 5” stainless steel nipples, then cut to the correct length, the holes drilled, the end of the nipple tapped for a 1/4” npt stainless steel pipe plug, the cut off flush, then faced in the lathe. The next set is for a smaller burner, so the spud sizing and orifice size and pattern will differ.
