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NEWS
January 2010
Yates & Co. And Highland Tank Join
Forces On Another Louisiana Project
Located in Port Allen, Louisiana, just
across the Mississippi River from Baton Rouge, the Placid
Refinery Company manufactures a variety of hydrocarbon based
fuels. Increasingly strict regulations regarding the treatment
of refinery by-products has created another opportunity for
Yates & Co. and their customer, MECO Environmental. MECO, with
main offices in Portland, OR and on the Island of Malta,
specializes in advanced treatment and remediation systems for
hydrocarbon contaminated liquids and solids. With regard to the
Placid facility, MECO and its design partners have engineered
and begun the implementation of a highly advanced remediation
system to treat contaminated solids from the Placid facility as
well as from other producers around the country. This system
will eliminate all hydrocarbons and produce, in the end result,
an inert material suitable for a variety of uses from road bed
material to a product suitable for concrete production.
Additionally, reusable oil will be captured in the process.
There is no other facility like it in the United States.
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Yates & Co. provided the many, specialized
ANSI pumps for the project. Additionally, with partner Highland
Tank and Manufacturing, Yates provided many of the storage and
process vessels required to implement this sophisticated design.
Included were two 20,000 gallon vertical oil recovery storage
tanks, one 18,000 gallon horizontal caustic solution storage
tank complete with suitable caustic resistant lining, and a
model HTC 2000 above ground oil water separator.
Yates & Co. is proud to be a long time
distributor for Highland Tank and Manufacturing. Please call any
Yates sales associate or our main office at 1-800-878-8181 for
more information or for assistance in addressing any storage
tank application you may have.
June 2009
Case Study: Taco
LoadMatch® Hydronic System Brings New Comfort to Old Victorian
The Williston Northampton School, a private
college prep school in western Massachusetts, to create more
living space for faculty and students recently bought and
renovated an old Victorian home adjacent to campus, added a
24,000-sq.-ft.dorm wing and additional faculty apartments, all
on a fast-track schedule to be ready for the new school year.
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The Williston Northampton School |
Taco LoadMatch® Circulator |
For comfortable and cost-effective heating and cooling, they
turned to a Taco LoadMatch® single pipe hydronic system linked
to a ground-source-heat-pump system tapping into fifteen
underground wells at a depth of 350 ft.
Click here to read the complete case study.
Project: National Cancer Institute, Ft Detrick, Md.
Hydronic Modules
Corporation (HMC), a wholly owned subsidiary of N.H. Yates &
Co., recently completed two chilled water pumping systems for
John J Kirlin, LLC. These 958 gpm systems are the largest in
HMC’s 35 year history and will be installed at the National
Cancer Institute, Ft Detrick, Md. Primary system components are
Taco FI Series end suction pumps and Danfoss variable speed
drives. Taco suction diffusers, expansion tanks and
multi-purpose valves will also be included in the system.
 
HMC specializes in
domestic water booster systems, heat transfer modules, built-up
chilled and condenser water pumping systems and fuel oil pump
sets. Packaging loose components into shop-built systems offers
a number of advantages to the installer and end user. These
advantages include single source responsibility, scheduled
delivery, single invoice as opposed to several invoices for
various components, ease of installation, and significantly
reduced overall cost.
HMC has been
producing packaged pumping systems since 1974 with installations
nationwide and overseas. Only the finest components from
recognized, top quality manufacturers are incorporated into our
systems. All domestic water, chilled water and condensate water
packaged pumping systems built by HMC bear the UL label.
Contact any Yates
sales associate or
Tom Yates at HMC (443-589-1672) for more
information on Hydronic Modules Corporation.
April 2009
Hurricane
Protection Pumps, Jefferson Parish, Louisiana
(originally published in ASPE Newsletter)
In late 2006, N.
H. Yates & Company, as part of a business development endeavor,
entered a strategic alliance with Integrated 8(a) Solutions, a
west coast firm specializing in proposal writing for prime
contractors wishing to procure contracts with government
agencies. The plan was to bring Integrated’s government
marketplace navigational skills along with their extensive
government and military contacts together with Yates’
considerable mechanical equipment offering in an effort to sell
our products and services to government contractors and
agencies. This effort has met with considerable success. Our
current client list includes The Army Corps of Engineers, The
Department of Fish & Wildlife, The Bureau of Reclamation, the US
Air Force, The Defense Logistics Agency, The Bureau of Land
Management and many others. Municipal clients include the
Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, The Inland
Empire Utilities Agency, San Antonio Water System, the State of
North Carolina, the City of St. Louis, Cook County, Illinois and
the City of Charlotte.
The
Harvey Canal Sector Gate Temporary Pumps
One of our more
noteworthy projects was the provision of post-Katrina hurricane
protection pumps for the Harvey Canal Sector Gate in Jefferson
Parish, Louisiana. This pumping system was required as temporary
protection for the West Bank of New Orleans until permanent
protection systems could be designed and instituted. We were
approached by the Army Corps of Engineers in March of 2007 to
offer a strategy to accomplish this task. Our design and
approach was reviewed and accepted by The Corps and our team,
led by Kanoa Company, a certified disadvantaged business in the
Small Business Administration’s 8(a) program, was awarded a
performance-based contract to provide 750 cubic feet per second
(336,600 gallons per minute) of temporary pumping capacity for
the Harvey Street Canal Sector Gate. This capacity was achieved
through the deployment of seven 42” axial flow pumps
manufactured by D&D Machine & Hydraulics, each with a pumping
capacity of 52,000 gallons per minute. Each pump is supported by
a 600 HP John Deere diesel engine and each diesel engine is
fueled from a dedicated 1250 gallon Highland Fireguard double
wall fuel tank. Additionally, these small dedicated fuel tanks
are supported by a central 12,000 gallon Fireguard tank also
manufactured by Highland Tank & Manufacturing. A complete tank
monitoring and leak detection system, as manufactured by Omntec
MFG., Inc., was provided and installed. The entire system was
installed, under the direction of the Army Corps of Engineers
and Kanoa Company, by Boh Brothers Construction, a well known
local firm with a long and successful history on Corps of
Engineers projects.
The City of New
Orleans, being below sea level, is constantly drained by a
series of pump stations around the city. These pump stations,
operating 24 hours a day, seven days a week, force water out of
the city, down the canals and into either Lake Pontchartrain on
the north or the Mississippi River on the south and west. The
major damage caused by hurricane Katrina was by storm surge
coming off the lake and river and backing up into the canals,
flooding the city and surrounding neighborhoods. To prevent this
storm surge in the future, automated closure gates have been
installed on the major canals which are closed when a storm
surge is anticipated. However, the same gate that keeps the
storm surge out keeps the constantly draining water from New
Orleans and the surrounding area in. Our pumps, and similar
installations on other canals, allow the city to be drained
while the closed gates keep the storm surge from entering the
canals and, again, flooding New Orleans and the surrounding
area.
The Harvey Canal
Sector Gate Temporary Pumps, as provided and installed by the
Kanoa/Yates/Integrated team, have performed near flawlessly on
every test and were operated at full capacity for several days,
without failure, during Hurricane Gustav in August and Hurricane
Ike in September of 2008. The pumps have also been operated on
several other occasions when severe weather mandated sector gate
closings.
With offices in
Baltimore, Newport Beach, New Orleans and Milwaukee, we continue
to pursue and procure government and municipal business
nationwide. Our post-Katrina business in the New Orleans area
continues to grow. We are currently providing a wide variety of
mechanical equipment on a number of projects including the West
Pointe A-La-Hache Pump Station, the Diamond Pump Station, the
Dalcour Water Treatment Plant and the Sunrise Pump Station.
Vendor Of The Year Award
N.H. Yates & Company is proud to announce the selection of BDK
Engineering as our Vendor Of The Year for our fiscal year 2009.
Quay Yendall, Jr., manager of our Valve group, travelled to
Hubli, India to make the award at BDK headquarters. BDK is an
international leader in the manufacture of a wide variety of
quality valves including, gate, globe, check, ball and butterfly
valves. N.H. Yates is the exclusive North American
representative for BDK Engineering. In addition to a number of
domestic projects, Yates & Co. has provided substantial
quantities of BDK valves on projects in the United Arab Emirates
and for Dow Chemical in China.
BDK CEO Bharat Khimji |
(From left to right) Director Sachin
Khimji, CEO Bharat Khimji, Quay Yendall, Director Binoy
Khimji |
Congratulations to BDK Engineering and the Khimji family for
their selection as this year’s Vendor Of The Year.
December 2008
Thanks to the generous
efforts of our employees, Yates was able to donate over six
hundred dollars in food and checks to the Maryland Food Bank.
These donations will provide around 1,800 meals for the 379,000
Marylanders living at or below the poverty level in the area.
For more information, please visit the Food Bank’s website at
www.mdfoodbank.org.
Thank you to everyone who participated!
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