To continue to offer the foremost, industrial-scale test facility of any combustion company in the world, John Zink Company expanded and modernized the Research and Development Test Center located at our World Headquarters in Tulsa, Oklahoma. John Zink invests heavily in research, development and testing to provide safe, environmentally friendly and efficient equipment for maximum system performance.

Our Test Center provides a safe, hospitable environment for customer demonstrations and development testing. Ongoing improvements provide our customers with time and cost savings. This state-of-the-art facility allows our engineers to develop equipment and technologies that optimize the operations at your facility.

Test Furnaces

Here, customers demonstrate equipment performance under full-scale conditions. Expanded testing capabilities allow John Zink to more accurately guarantee equipment operability upon installation.

State-of-the-Art Furnace Features

Multiple viewports for increased customer and technician monitoring
Emergency shutdown at each furnace
Fire-eyes to monitor burners and shut off fuel supply if flame blows out
Leading-edge gas sampling technologies
WonderWare™ software for remote data collection and furnace control
Stack damper improvements
Steam sparging systems to adjust draft to customer specification
To ensure employee and customer safety, John Zink regularly replaces, upgrades and builds new platforms, walkways and handrails

Customer Center

Customers congregate in comfortable, private conference rooms, to witness and discuss burner and flare demonstrations, review results, eat meals, and communicate with their colleagues.

The rooms are equipped with the latest projection equipment to display test data and other presentation materials on a large screen. WonderWare™ software collects and instantly displays data from any of the 14 test furnaces into the customer rooms. WonderWare can also be used to remotely control some of the furnaces. Soon, customers will be able to remotely view the flame inside the furnace on a TV monitor in the comfortable, climate-controlled customer rooms. The furnace cameras and state-of-the-art software will also enable John Zink to send live test videos and data over the Internet to customers all around the world. Password-protected remote viewing will allow a customer to witness a test while accessing the test results in real time at their home office.

The Customer Center clearly distinguishes John Zink Company from other combustion test facilities. Contact a John Zink representative to schedule your next burner or flare test.

Flare Pad Expansion

John Zink Company expanded and upgraded the flare pad to test larger-sized flares. Testing a variety of flare sizes allows our engineers to more accurately size and select the flare for each customer's specific requirements. Scaling up to a larger flare helps John Zink engineers determine the key parameters affecting flare performance.

Analyzers built into the new flares will relay data to a new control room. WonderWare software will collect and instantly display data from the flares. Testing capabilities will include real-time multidimensional, radiation, noise and remote customer data transfer via the World Wide Web.

Contact a John Zink representative for additional information.

John Zink Company, LLC
11920 East Apache
Tulsa, OK 74116
United States of America
+1-918-234-1800

email: info@johnzink.com