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Wireless devices automate steam trap fault detection, avoid exposing workers to hazardous areas, and pay back in less than one ...
He believed that the problem was failed steam traps. Solution: Bruce tested the 250 steam traps and found a failure rate of 23 percent. Around each steam trap was a bypass valve. Failed steam traps did indeed have a direct bearing on the problem he was called ...
What is Steam Trap Insulation? A steam trap is a type of valve that filters out condensate and non-condensable gases from pipework without losing steam. ...
Engen’s refinery in Durban, South Africa was approached by Delta Steam Systems in 2012 with a proposal to replace all steam traps in the refinery. ...
A leading global healthcare company has revealed that it has achieved a 12-month payback on Thermal Energy International’s GEM venturi orifice steam traps installed at its manufacturing facility in Italy. Thermal Energy International has installed a total of 92 steam traps throughout the facility’s process plant, ...
Steam traps and steam systems can represent a large proportion of a manufacturing plant’s total operating costs. ...
Conscious that the laundry’s mechanical steam traps were causing water vapour losses through evaporation from the hot well as well as poor condensate return, Richard Harris, Head of Engineering and Estates Standards, decided to investigate the GEM venturi designed steam traps. “We considered chemical treatment, but ...
Having successfully installed GEM Venturi steam traps at another of its European sites, the company asked Thermal Energy International to conduct a survey of its mechanical traps, which were regularly failing open, partly open and closed. ...
Metered tests carried out on Thermal Energy International’s GEM steam traps by Italcables, Italy’s largest producer of wire strands for pre-stressed concrete and post-tensioned structures, have shown steam savings of up to 30% compared to mechanical traps. ...
Prior to the installation of the GEM steam traps, the hospital found that a percentage of its steam traps were failing each year. ...
Looking for a steam trap with longevity, the plant contacted Zenith Marketing & Consultants, a company specialising in industrial energy saving products, about the award winning GEM venturi orifice steam trap. ...
As the GEM steam traps have no moving parts to wedge open or fail they provide a permanent solution to steam trapping and condensate return problems. GEM steam traps also improve product processing by enhancing the quality of steam and reducing equipment repairs, downtime and ...
Diageo’s 18-acre Runcorn facility is making savings in energy, replacement costs and maintenance of its steam traps following the installation of Thermal Energy International’s Venturi Orifice GEM traps. ...
The international pharmaceutical and health-care group, Angelini, has made Thermal Energy International Inc’s GEM venturi orifice steam trap its steam trap of choice following three years extensive testing. ...
Having successfully installed GEM Venturi steam traps at another of its European sites, the company asked Thermal Energy International to conduct a survey of its mechanical traps, which were regularly failing open, partly open and closed. ...
ELANTAS Deatech has now replaced all of the mechanical steam traps on its process, utilities and steam distribution pipeline with the GEM venturi orifice design. Prior to the installation of the GEM steam traps, the mechanical traps regularly failed open, closed or partly open, necessitating ...
Salisbury District Hospital is saving approximately 10% of its steam consumption following the installation of Thermal Energy International’s GEM venturi orifice steam traps, which is providing the hospital with significant energy savings. ...
As the steam gives up its useful heat it condenses to water. The steam trap’s function is to remove this water and air from the steam pipework. At Shuaiba Refinery the mechanical steam traps were failing at a rate of in excess of 10% per annum. Steam ...
Steam Traps A steam trap is a device that discharges condensate and air from the line or piece of equipment without discharging the steam. ...
Thermal Energy International has announced that it has received purchase orders totally £374,167 from a major food manufacturer based in the UK, to provide GEM condensate return systems for use at 5 of its manufacturing sites. The GEM steam traps should be shipped and the revenue recognised over the next 3 months. ...