DGA Company Ltd is a consultancy company based in Bangkok, Thailand. DGA has operated in Thailand for 5 years and in this time has developed a small but substantial client base of companies who manufacture or operate steam and power plants.

Included amongst these clients is Advance Agro Public Company Ltd (AA Paper), Thai Power Supply Public Company Ltd in Thailand and Bangkok Industrial Boilers C Ltd, Thailand’s leading industrial boiler manufacturer.

DGA offers its services as a consultancy to solve technical problems with existing plants, assist with selection of new plants and equipment or even as a supplier of new equipment.

DGA has considerable links with overseas technology companies who allow DGA to remain current with all the necessary technologies to support their activities in Thailand and the SE Asia region. This includes

Boiler designers ERK Eckrohrkessel from Germany with whom DGA enjoy a close relationship, DGA is also a licensee and is authorized to design and construct new boilers to the Eckrohrkessel systems and patents
Burner and Controls manufacturers Gosfern Pty Ltd of Australia, with whom DGA is currently designing and building a range of marine boilers and fired water heaters for use on FPSO vessels offshore.
Parsons Consultants also of Australia, with whom DGA enjoys a close working relationship.
Torftech Company from the UK with whom DGA is developing a range of special industrial and power boilers which will produce steam and a valuable ash by product
JWT Technologies from the US who are spear heading novel combustion systems based on the Torftech technology. DGA are the prospective boiler integrator for the package.
These, and many other known and trusted names all add to DGA’s technical capability in providing support for their customers.

DGA is associated with other leading consultancies on a job by job basis and brings international consultancy experience to clients when required. However DGA’s particular speciality is combustion, boiler and small scale biomass power engineering.

DGA is owned and managed by David Gardner M.Sc (UK), C Eng MEI who is able to draw on more than 30 years of experience in combustion equipment, boiler and power plant design drawn from areas as diverse as UK, various countries in Europe, Canada, Australia and most recently Thailand and Malaysia.

This experience includes :
(a) design and project management for small and large scale utility power plants new and or modification,
(b) design, development and manufacture of oil, gas and solid fuel firing equipment, including fluidised bed combustion on a small and large scale.
(c) wide fuel experience including industrial oil and gas fuels, coal and biomass through waste sludges and garbage.
(d) total system design including plant control systems and fuel storage and handling systems for all regular fuels.

Most recently < 5 MWe biomass fired power plants fired by a variety of technologies have been the focus of DGA’s design efforts.

During his 30 year career Gardner has worked with others to achieve some successful results which includes

• Development of light up burners for CEGB utility boilers
• Design and testing of a mine drainage methane burner for Michelin Tyres UK
• Development of oil and gas fired forced draft refinery burner for BP in the 1980s which met all the necessary performance and stability criteria of BP’s specification.
• Development of a range of firing equipment for Gibson Wells (latterly Foster Wheeler) boilers in UK
• Development of industrial fluidised bed boilers with British Coal’s Coal Research Establishment
• Design and testing of large FBC fired furnaces to burn an organic sludge for Environment Canada
• Basic Engineering for a 30 MWe garbage fired plant using Ebara technology for Madrid Spain
• Design of a tanker sludge firing plant for MSE in Malaysia