12 JANUARY 2015 Process Heating IHEA Profiles in Industrial Heating There are a lot of firsts in Fireye’s history. Back in the 1930s, the company was the first to offer industrial/commercial electronic flame-safeguard controls, a photoelectric device designed to detect the presence of an oil flame in less than a second. Fireye also claims to be the first company to develop infrared scanners to monitor both gas and oil flames; the first to develop a scan- ner that discriminated between signals from adjacent burners; and the first to create a completely solid-state pro- gramming control. The company has also set new stan- dards with a microprocessor-based, auto- matic diagnostics program that commu- nicates in five different languages. Today, Fireye is a manufacturer of flame-safeguard controls and burner management systems for industrial and commercial applications. Its products can be found in power plants, pulp and paper mills, petrochemical facilities and food processing plants as well as a variety of public buildings and com- mercial properties. Derry, N.H.-based Fireye is a part of UTC Building & Industrial Systems, a unit of United Technologies Corp. ISO 9001-certified since 1996, Fireye maintains 20 offices worldwide with approximately 130 employees. This means that seasoned professionals in the flame safeguard and combustion control industry are available world- wide, providing quick, responsive ser- vice to customers. The company’s modern manufac- turing centers design, fabricate and assemble products. Fireye’s engineer- ing staff continuously evaluates and tests ideas at its laboratories and research facilities. The staff also looks for ways to improve current products and develop new entries into related aspects of combustion control and management. Fireye is a UL-approved testing facility (temperature, humid- ity, electric static discharge, etc.) and is required to comply with UL372 for primary safety controls. Flame safeguards — detecting friendly flames using ultraviolet tubes and solid-state devices and infrared solid-state detectors — are clearly Fireye’s specialty. But, the company also offers high technology flame scanners that employ techniques to discriminate among many flames in a multi-burner environment. These scanners allow for precise tuning to one particular target flame while ignoring the effect of adjacent flames or background radiation. Features of its Model 95 Series include: • Complex flame-analysis meth- ods such as selectivity of spectral response in the ultraviolet or infrared region, or both. • Adjustable sensitivity to flame-signal strength to determine a flame-on vs. flame-off condition. • Flicker frequency selection to dis- criminate from flame to flame. The Paragon flame scanner can opti- cally detect maximum flame tempera- ture in addition to flame detection. The company has been busy recently. Fireye Inc. Flame Safeguard and Combustion Controls By Bill Mayer Fireye’s products offer customers benefits such as fuel savings, emissions reduction and enhanced operational capabilities.