Upgrade to existing Natural Gas Roller Hearth Tile Kiln to fire on 100% Hydrogen
A Contract Award Notice
by LUCIDEON LIMITED
- Source
- Find a Tender
- Type
- Contract (Supply)
- Duration
- 4 month (est.)
- Value
- £258K
- Sector
- INDUSTRIAL
- Published
- 01 Dec 2023
- Delivery
- To 30 Mar 2024 (est.)
- Deadline
- n/a
Concepts
Location
STOKE-ON-TRENT
Description
The design, supply, and installation of modifications to our existing Natural Gas Roller Hearth Tile Kiln. Our organisation intends to transition the kiln to operate on 100% hydrogen, whist retaining the existing natural gas combustion system and ensuring its safe and efficient operation. The kiln therefore requires the parallel installation of 100% hydrogen rated burners.
Total Quantity or Scope
The design, supply, and installation of modifications to our existing Natural Gas Roller Hearth Tile Kiln. Our organisation intends to transition the kiln to operate on 100% hydrogen, whist retaining the existing natural gas combustion system and ensuring its safe and efficient operation. The kiln therefore requires the parallel installation of 100% hydrogen rated burners. The existing asset has been used in the past to investigate the use of Flash Sintering of ceramic tiles is used as a laboratory/research platform for the ceramic tile sector and as such the final design should not compromise the asset's current capabilities, which are; 1170⁰C peak operating temperature, product setting volume to be unchanged The existing asset was recommissioned in January 2023 after several years of being offline. It has a fully integrated SCADA control system that manages the kiln automation and combustion control current operation.
Award Detail
| 1 | Therser (Stoke on Trent)
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Award Criteria
| Quality, thoroughness and timeliness of implementation plan | 10.0 |
| Quality and comprehensiveness of the acceptance / training / maintenance | 5.0 |
| Quality and thoroughness of the specification | 20.0 |
| Assessment of safety systems within the proposal | 20.0 |
| Quality and thoroughness of previous experience in hydrogen kiln manufacture | 10.0 |
| Quality of previous case study examples | 5.0 |
| Total cost of equipment, installation, training and maintenace for 2 years | 20.0 |
| Schedule of project payments and stage payments | 5.0 |
| Financial Standing - credit check | 5.0 |
CPV Codes
- 42300000 - Industrial or laboratory furnaces, incinerators and ovens
Indicators
Reference
- FTS 035429-2023