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No. 56 – Safety Items for Steam

September 24, 2018

CONTENTS

Water hammer: something that never should occur in a steam system 5
Steam and condensate water hammer. 5
Where does water hammer occur? 5
Results of water hammer. 6

No. 55 – Eliminate Unwanted Steam Venting

September 24, 2018

Best Practice No. 55 How to Eliminate Steam Venting and Stop the Major Energy Loss

1. OVERVIEW

With today’s competitive international market, all plants need to reduce operating costs, and lowering energy consumption

STEAM TRAP STATION TESTING

September 21, 2018

Steam System Optimization Testing Steam Trap Stations by Temperature and High Frequency Ultrasound Kelly Paffel, Inveno Engineering LLC Tampa, FL, invenoeng.com My name is Kelly Paffel, I'm technical manager for Inveno Engineering, LLC, located

No. 54 – Venting Steam

September 7, 2018

Venting Steam: The Largest Energy Loss in Steam Systems

1. OVERVIEW

Figure 1. Example of Steam Plant Operation: No Steam Venting With today’s competitive international market, all plants need to reduce operating costs,

No. 53 – Steam System Leakage Costs

September 7, 2018

Steam and Condensate System Leakage Costs. Steam and condensate leaks are unacceptable—and even abnormal—in today’s industrial steam and condensate systems. These leaks cost industrial plants millions of dollars in lost energy

Steam Condensate leak – No. 52

September 7, 2018

Steam and Condensate System Leaks Are Unacceptable in Today’s Steam System Operations: Leaks are unacceptable in today’s industrial steam and condensate system. In fact, steam leakage is considered abnormal in daily plant operations.

Venting Steam is the No. 1 Largest Energy Loss In the Steam System

September 5, 2018

STEAM SYSTEM OPTIMIZATION

STEAM VENTING NO. ONE MAJOR ENERGY LOSS IN A

STEAM AND CONDENSATE SYSTEM

My name is Kelly Paffel. I'm technical manager for Inveno Engineering, LLC, located in Tampa, Florida. We're a

Steam System Optimization – How to Eliminate Steam Venting

August 20, 2018

Steam System Optimization How to Eliminate Steam Venting With Proper Steam System Engineering My name is Kelly Paffel. I am the technical manager for Inveno Engineering LLC, a Tampa based company. We're

Combustion Flame Visual Inspection

August 13, 2018

Combustion flame visual inspection by Kelly Paffel technical manager Inveno Engineering, LLC Tampa, Florida, USA My name is Kelly Paffel. I’m with Inveno Engineering LLC located in Tampa, Florida and today I

Ultrasonic Steam Trap Testing

June 24, 2018

Successfully Testing Steam Traps With High-Frequency Ultrasound When using high-frequency ultrasound, the main question is where the sensitivity should be set to conduct the test. If the testing instrument is set

Testing Steam Traps by the Temperature Method

June 19, 2018

Testing Steam Traps by the Temperature Method The relationship between steam pressure and temperature makes temperature measurement extremely helpful in understanding many different operating conditions of steam components that

Waterhammer in Steam and Condensate Systems | Part 1/3: What is Waterhammer?

May 17, 2018

My name is Kelly Paffel. I'm Technical Manager for Inveno Engineering, LLC located in Tampa, Florida. We're a domestic and international engineering company, specifically in the field of steam and