Steam systems serve as the backbone of numerous industrial processes, providing the essential thermal energy required for a wide range of applications across various sectors. From powering machinery ...

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) ...

Steam is a marvelous way to transport large amounts of energy effectively and economically. That is why Steam has been the cornerstone of campus, district heating, and process systems for the past two ...

In previous Power Engineering articles, we examined the importance of trace iron monitoring to determine the extent of carbon steel corrosion in heat recovery steam generator (HRSG) condensate and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Food and beverage manufacturing is inherently water and energy intensive, but your operations may be using more of these resources than necessary, meaning that you’re also spending more money than you ...

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 ...

It is well-known that a conventional boiler or heat recovery steam generator (HRSG) and related steam turbine have innumerable pieces all working in conjunction to produce the end product of electric ...

Notwithstanding the effects of erosion due to wet steam acceleration through bends in the pipework, clean high-quality steam is not normally chemically corrosive in its gaseous state. But when steam ...