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Thermal Energy Systems, usually referred to as 'TES', was established in the mid 1980's to provide both professional services and equipment to the industrial energy sector, primarily those systems fired on agricultural waste products and bagasse in particular. Since its formation a lot of the work undertaken has been in or associated with the sugar industry, providing both engineering and project management. However, we also have considerable experience with other biomass fuels including wood and wood waste, cotton seed hulls, sunflower seed hulls and palm oil waste, as can be seen from our project lists. TES was founded by Norman Magasiner, recognised as an international expert in biomass and coal fired boilers. He worked for 31 years with the John Thompson company before setting up his own engineering organisation. Most of that time was in JTA Capetown where he was Technical and then Managing Director at a time when JTA was developing its current bagasse boiler technology. Through him, TES has the rights to use a package of JTA design procedures, programs and information on boiler design, much of which was developed by him or under his management. In the last two decades we have developed that technology much further and now offer the most modern bagasse boiler designs in the world. We engineer and undertake the detailed design of boilers and the ancilliaries which make them work, whether it is a new, greenfield boiler project or the refurbishment of an existing one. Inevitably, much of the work involves co-generation. Where a new boiler is involved we will frequently be asked to study the entire thermodynamic cycle in order to optimise energy efficiency as part of the project engineering. We also help clients with operational problems in their boiler house.