Additives for the Power Generation Industry

Bell Performance has been serving the power generation industry since 1952 when Robert J. Bell formulated the first version of his Atom-Ix (also called ATX) multi-function treatment for fuel oil.

 

Large and small power utilities, industrial generation systems and municipal power generation facilities have all utilized Bell’s multi-function formulations to:

While coal and natural gas have overtaken heavy fuel oil for most of the U.S.’s large power generation capacity, today, fuel oil-fired generation facilities serve to power many industrial and municipal buildings and manufacturing depots. Bell Performance’s ATX line of treatment keep these facilities operating at peak performance while minimizing fuel-related issues that have plagued oil-fired furnace and boiler.

ATX For Boiler Furnace Systems

Bell Performance has manufactured ATX-950, ATX-1004D, 1018D, 1020D and other multi-function formulations for heavy fuel oil since before John F. Kennedy was president. ATX formulations for boiler furnaces provide:

• Combustion catalyst surfactant
• Deposit modifying effects in an oil-soluble formation.

Gas turbine systems utilizing heavy fuel oil and bunker-type fuels require higher-quality treatments than boiler systems. Bell Performance offers turbine-grade over-based magnesium sulfonate treatments with the ATX T-Series additives - ATX-1100T and ATX-1400T. Both are designed to remediate high-temperature corrosion, molten deposit formation and acid gas emissions associated with high vanadium, high sulfur residual fuel oils.