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OB-1 Thermal storage for process steam

Steam on
schedule.

Ovenbird cores charge on cheap night power and give it back as steam when your shift starts. A boiler you can schedule, with a business case behind it.

Request a site assessment → How it works
Your plant's dayIllustration, not a quote
12 t/h
Operating hours
Tariff shape
Scroll, or drag the ring, to move through a day
The 24-hour plant A cross-section of an Ovenbird storage core inside a 24-hour clock ring. The ring shows power price by hour, when the core charges and when it delivers steam to a simplified plant outline. GRID IN 0.0 MWe 06:40 CHARGING CORE 94% 1,210 °C STEAM OUT 0.0 t/h YOUR PLANT 2 SHIFTS · 12 t/h 01 HEATING ELEMENTS 02 STORAGE CORE 03 INSULATION 04 STEAM GENERATOR OVENBIRD · OB-1 CORE DWG 24H-PLANT REV C SCALE NTS SHEET 1/1
Charging Delivering steam Power price, by hour Charge 23:00–07:00 · deliver 06:00–22:00 Sample data
02 Before the first call

Three plain answers.

The three questions every plant manager asks, answered before anyone gets on a call.

A · What it replaces01/03

Boiler firing hours. Not the boiler.

The core carries your base steam load. Your existing boilers stay connected for peaks and as backup, so nothing you rely on today goes away.

BEFORE AFTER OVENBIRD CORE BOILER 06:0014:0022:00 Sample data
  • Steam output per core2–40 t/h
  • Delivery pressureup to 20 bar g
  • Existing boilerskept as standby
B · Where it fits02/03

Beside the boiler house, on three tie-ins.

One core sits on a slab the size of two shipping containers. It needs a power feed, feedwater in and steam out to your existing header.

OB-1 CORE 12.2 m 3.0 m A POWER B FEEDWATER C STEAM Sample data
  • Footprint, one core12.2 × 3.0 m
  • Tie-in pointspower · water · steam
  • ControlsModbus / OPC UA
C · Who maintains it03/03

We do, on a calendar you can see.

Inspections are booked a year ahead around your shutdowns. If the core faults, the controls hand the load back to your boilers on their own.

Sample data
  • Site inspectionquarterly
  • Element checkannual, in your shutdown
  • On a faultboilers take the load
03 How it works

Four parts. One of them glows.

Electricity heats a solid core. The core holds the heat for hours. Air carries it to a steam generator when your plant calls for it. Pick a part to see what it does.

Illustration · not to scale Side cutaway of an Ovenbird core, with four numbered parts
04 Two readers, one machine

One page for the plant. One for the money.

The engineer needs to know it fits. The finance lead needs to know how the case is built. We wrote each of them their own page.

For plant managersChecklist · prints on one page

What has to be true on your site.

  • Slab and foundation loads for one core § 1
  • Tie-in to your existing steam header § 2
  • Grid connection and transformer capacity § 3
  • Controls handshake with your DCS § 4
  • Maintenance calendar around your shutdowns § 5
  • What happens on a fault, step by step § 6
Open the plant checklist →
For financeMethod, not a promise

How a business case gets built.

InputsYour steam load, hours, tariff and gas contract.
AssumptionsWritten down, dated, and yours to change.
SensitivitiesWhich input moves the answer most.
Sample data

What moves the case most

Cheap-to-peak power spread
Gas price
Operating hours
Carbon price
worsebase casebetter
Read the business-case method →
ProofCustomer proof, supplied by clientReserved slot · left empty in this concept
Safety & standardsCertificationSupplied by client
Safety & standardsCertificationSupplied by client
Safety & standardsCertificationSupplied by client
05 Site assessment

Bring four numbers. Skip the first call.

Steam load, pressure, hours and tariff are what a sales engineer asks first. If you set them above, they're already filled in.

  1. 01 Your steam
  2. 02 Your site
  3. 03 You

Your steam

Carried from the 24-hour plant
t/h
bar g

A sales engineer reads this before calling you. Nothing is shared outside Ovenbird.