Consulting Services & Plant Design
What we offer:
• Existing Condition evaluations • Master Planning, equipment specifications • Laundry facility layout • Detailed CAD Services • Equipment Installation • Plant operations management training • General engineering services • Complete facility operational assessments or appraisals • Staffing projections • Detailed Design Construction Documents • Production staff training • Energy studies – We wrote the book on waste heat recovery for TRSA! • Cost savings Projections
Our Laundry Engineering team can design efficient and economical customized laundry designs to meet your specific needs. We use the most current version of computer-aided design (CAD) technology to develop complete layout and installation drawings. These drawings will include all electrical and mechanical requirements for your facilities needs. We work closely with owners, architects and general contractors. Professional services can include:
If your budget requires used machines we can design for that need.
We have designed and built facilities as small as 6,000 square feet, producing as little as 3,000,000 pounds per year; and as large as 200,000 square feet, producing 250,000,000 pounds per year. This large facility included, nine CBW systems, twenty-one 450 pound washer/extractors, nine 125 pound washer/extractors & fifteen ironer lines. How can we serve you?
When servicing a single 1,000 room hotel about $50,000 worth of delivery hampers are required. Hamper cost to service the largest Las Vegas properties could cost $400,000! How do you decide which hampers to purchase? There are several basic questions that need to be addressed. 1. What size hamper (P72 or BLT72 being the most common). 2. … [Read More...]
Text book definition: The probability that a particular piece of equipment will come on at the time of the facility's peak load. It is the ratio of the sum of the individual non-coincident maximum demands of various subdivisions of the system to the maximum demand of the complete system. The diversity factor is always greater than 1. The (unofficial) … [Read More...]
For any heat exchanger to approach 100% exchange efficiency it must be in a COUNTER-flow condition. The Maximum exchange efficiency while in a CO-flow state is 50%. Most shell & tube exchangers have a reversing valve. A correctly operating reversing valve takes the flow out of COUNTER-flow & places it into a CO-flow condition. The OEM’s … [Read More...]
Readers question: In a recent Hot Tip you were talking about boilers and you used the term BHP to describe the size of the boiler. Why use the “B” to describe Horsepower? There are several different measure of power where the term “horsepower” is commonly used. The following conversion chart should help. Horsepower conversions: In certain … [Read More...]
Readers question: “In a recent Hot Tip, it was recommended that all new washroom trenches be poured monolithically, was does that mean?” Monolithic means it is made from a single pour of concrete. Usually when the term monolithic is used, it is because the concrete footings and slab are poured at the same time. Sometimes footings are poured separately, … [Read More...]