GlowCore Shines at World-Famous Eatery

     Yoken's Restaurant serves thousands of meals every day to locals and tourists who visit the New England landmark.  But with each passing tourist, it became more and more obvious to management that the old, 750,000 Btu oil-fired, cast-iron boiler wasn't doing the job. 
     So a call went out to GlowCore Heating & Cooling Products, which tried to convince Yoken's owners that two high-efficiency GlowCore GB160's (89% AFUE) could replace all that aging, inefficient capacity.  But management wasn't buying.  They insisted it would take at least three GlowCore boilers.  So three GB160's were installed. 
     As time went on, however, it became apparent that Yoken's had excess capacity.  One boiler was being used consistently to heat the hot water baseboard system in the kitchen, foyer and several dining rooms.  One came on a few hours a day to supplement the first.  And one never came on. 
     So domestic hot water was added to the system to utilize the third GB160.  Interconnected with two Glowcore WT Series, commercial size water heaters, this third boiler now provides the hot water demands of Yoken's huge kitchen.  Demands include 180º F rinse water for up to 3,500 meals served per day during the peak vacation season. 
     The GlowCore system not only increased efficiency, reducing fuel costs over the old system by 50% each of the past two years, but increased the comfort level for Yoken's thousands of daily customers - the task originally set out to be accomplished - and, as a bonus, added the huge hot water load to the system, further decreasing operating costs. 
     "I even picked up a new storage room'" says Yoken's manager, Harry McCloud.  "In the basement where the old boiler was I can store items for the gift shop.  The GlowCore boilers hang right on the wall and leave me plenty of room to operate."

Dealer: Champion Plumbing & Heating 
Location: Portsmouth, NH 

Project: Yoken's Restaurant 

Old System: Fuel-Oil Boiler
BTU: 750,000
AFUE: 50-60% range 

GlowCore System: Three GB160 Gas-Fired Commercial Boilers 
BTU: 160,000 ea. 
Total: 480,000 
AFUE: 89%  

 Savings: 50% each of last 2 years