AB & CO - Steam Heating and High Pressure Boiler

In these heating systems a high temperature level is often a necessity for achieving the required high efficiency and output in the process.

When using steam (or water) these high process temperatures can only be achieved by significant pressurising of the saturated steam (or water ).

It is important to emphasize that dry saturated steam is both extremely efficient to carry heat and to deliver / transfer the heat. Saturated steam offers a very high specific heat content (kJ per kg steam) and thereby deliver a large amount of heat by a modest steam flow. Steam at saturating point also very efficiently finds way to all part of the heat surfaces, - and even more efficiently transfer the heat to the heat surfaces (large heat transfer coefficient also called the k-value).

This indeed makes steam very attractive to use for process heating, and on top of this, it is also a well defined medium from which engineers worldwide have a lot of experience working with.