Steam distribution from the boiler to the points of end use should occur with minimal loss of energy. However, the total amount of steam distributed (figure 1) never matches the amount of steam coming ...

Dave Vandas is deep underneath Northwestern's Evanston campus. He is walking through a concrete tunnel tall enough for his six-foot frame to stand in, but not quite wide enough to extend his arms to ...

In steam systems that have not been maintained for three to five years, between 15 percent to 30 percent of the installed steam traps may have failed - thus allowing live steam to escape into the ...

Last month, I wrote about refrigeration design engineering being a lost skill. This month, I’m going to discuss another lost engineering skill: steam systems. When I started out at an HVAC consulting ...

In steam distribution systems, steam traps can be blamed for wasting a large amount of energy. Traps are put into place to capture and remove condensate water from the lines in order to avoid problems ...

The Fluid Controls Institute (FCI) recently released Tech Sheet #108: Condensate Line Sizing for Gravity Returns from Steam Traps and Heat Recovery which is available as a free download from the FCI ...

If you’re one of the rare regular readers, you know by now that I like steam heat. If asked why, I would say it’s the uniqueness of the jobs I look at. I don’t think that they are ever the same, and I ...

A century-plus of steam-generated power production has shown the importance of water and steam chemistry. Just one boiler tube failure in a conventional unit or heat recovery steam generator (HRSG) ...

Food and beverage applications must meet a variety of process temperature and pressure control requirements to maintain the tight temperatures that ensure product ...