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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.

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.


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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