Crossing the Lillibridge

In another banner day for TPC this week we commisioned the first of what we hope might be many buildings for Lillibridge. Lillibridge, Inc. is a company that does facilities management for hospitals and medical facilities all over the country. In Indiana alone they have over 100 buildings they are responsible for over 10,000 properties nationwide. On Monday Tony was at the Carl Erskine Center to train their staff on the Flow Intelligent mechanical room control they just purchased. In attendance were David Johnson, Sr. of Wells Boiler Works (contractor), Rex Groeller (a Lillibridge senior staff member), Scott Messer (a manager of another Lillibridge property), and several members of the Facilities Maintenance staff of St. John's Hospital (the Erskine building sits on their campus).



One of the things that make this a unique installation is that we are bringing together boilers of three different sizes (750 MBH, 1500 MBH, and 2000 MBH), two different styles (modulating/two stage), two different types (condensing/non-condensing) and three different metallurgies (cast iron, cast aliuminum, and copper fin-tube). On top of that, Lillibridge chose a special option that only is available through TPC ~ Delta-T control. For those of you who are new to what we are doing, Delta-T is engineering jargon for temperature differential. For instance, if the water coming into a boiler is 100 degrees and the water leaving the boiler is 120 degrees you have a Delta-T of 20 degrees. So, a greater Delta-T across a boiler means more energy transfer has happened while that water is in the boiler, making the whole process more effecient. Or as we like to say, when you light a fire in the boiler, that energy should go into the water instead of out the stack. Because of TPC's Flow Intelligent control breakthroughs, we are the only control that can keep a consistently high Delta-T across a boiler at all times regardless of firing rate or building conditions while protecting the boiler's heat exchanger from possible damage caused by low-flow rates. This piece of control wizardry has boiler manufacturers standing up and taking notice. Boiler manufacturers that would not consider allowing variable speed pumping through their boilers are begining to seriously consider it because of the efficiency this can bring to their projects.

Lillibridge was very impressed with the energy savings that TPC provides and with the ability to seamlessly integrate so many different types of equipment. That's one of the things that makes us so attractive to companies like Lillibridge because they have 10,000 properties nationwide that they had little or no input in how they were designed. That means they have inherited all the problems those facilities have, and are looking for solutions that a company like ours can provide. The Indiana division of Lillibridge has already had us in to look at doing work in two other of their facilities and we look forward to working with them on a nationwide basis.

TJ