Steam Loss Articles
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An Emergency Request For A Steam Trap Testing Audit - Case Study
Challenge: Customer complained of high back pressure in their condensate system. 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 into solve: Abnormally High Back Pressure in the ...
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Cumulative exergetic assessment of LPFO utilised steam boilers
This paper relates to a study on the energy and exergy resources, transfers, consumption and losses in the combustion and heat exchanging units of industrial steam boilers. Mass, energy and exergy analyses, which included the physical and chemical exergies of material streams, were used to investigate the energy resource utilisation of Low Pour Fuel Oil (LPFO) in industrial steam boilers. The ...
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Efficient steam production in paper mills
The paper and pulp industry is an energy and emission intensive industry. Steam is an essential part of the paper making process with steam boilers, steam distribution systems and other processes accounting for a large percentage of a paper mill’s energy costs. Useful energy is often lost from boilers and process equipment such as heat exchangers, dryers, evaporators etc, as well as from ...
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Wigan Infirmary Expected to Save Over £48,000 a Year Following Installation of GEM Steam Traps
The Royal Albert Edward Infirmary in Wigan, better known as Wigan Infirmary, anticipates it will avoid spending £48,847 per annum in fuel and maintenance costs following the installation of Thermal Energy International’s GEM venturi orifice steam traps. A total of 157 GEM steam traps have been installed throughout Wigan Infirmary’s site providing the hospital with a projected ...
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GEM steam traps stop mechancial trap failure & reduce condensate return pressure by 51% at KNPC shuaiba refinery
Keeping on top of the constant challenge of repairing and replacing thousands of mechanical steam traps is no longer a problem at KNPC’s Shauiba Refinery in Kuwait following the successful conversion of 1,750 mechanical traps to Thermal Energy International’s award winning GEM Venturi Orifice design. In addition, KNPC, a subsidiary of the Kuwait Petroleum Association, has seen the HP ...
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Wasting energy through steam loss
The European Union Directive on the Energy Performance of Buildings, which relates to all member nations of the European Union, are obliged to set limits on greenhouse gas emissions, particularly from buildings. Typically steam is used for a wide range of applications within larger establishments including, humidification, hot water, space heating and air heating. Primary energy losses in a ...
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Elantas enjoys significant steam savings with GEM
Thermal Energy International Inc. is pleased to announce that ELANTAS Deatech S.r.l, a member of the global specialty chemical group Altana AG, and a leading producer of insulating materials for the electrical and electronics industry, has revealed that it is achieving significant savings in steam consumption at its site in Ascoli Piceno, Italy following the installation of Thermal Energy ...
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Sunlight Services Group Ltd., Wellingborough, U.K.
Site Engineer John Wright at Sunlight Services Group has tried every make of mechanical steam trap over the last 30 years and found they all failed and continually required testing, new parts or total replacement. Sunlight fitted a couple of GEMs on an ironer and a drier, replacing mechanical traps. An immediate improvement on equipment performance was noted with better temperatures than ever ...
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Thermodynamic evaluation of gas turbines for cogeneration applications
In this paper, the first and second laws of thermodynamics have been utilised to evaluate the performance of intercooled reheat regenerative gas turbine cogeneration plant. The effects of overall pressure ratio, cycle temperature ratio, pressure losses, and process steam pressure on energetic and exergetic efficiencies have been investigated. The results indicate that most of the exergy ...
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Energetic and exergetic efficiency analysis of an indirect fired air-turbine combined heat and power system
The aim of this paper is to analyse the performance of an intercooled reheat regenerative indirect fired air turbine based combined heat and power system using the first and second law of thermodynamics. The energetic and exergetic efficiencies have been defined. The effects of overall pressure ratio, cycle temperature ratio, pressure losses and process steam pressure on the energetic and ...
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Coupling aspects of an MSF desalination plant and loss of electrical power generation of a nuclear power plant: case study
Thermal desalination technologies are very energy intensive. The utilisation of nuclear energy for seawater desalination provides a safe, feasible and economic solution for the production of very good quality water. The Multi-Stage Flash (MSF) desalination plant of the Nuclear Desalination Demonstration Project (NDDP) of the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE), Government of India, is coupled with ...
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