Dec 5, 2014 | Steam Engineering and Design
Steam is a valuable medium and any leaks should be dealt with properly and quickly. Live steam leaks are a significant and highly visible waste of energy, as well as being a possible health and safety risk. A steam leak results in the loss of both latent and sensible...
Nov 29, 2014 | Steam Engineering and Design
ESOS, launched on 26th June 2014 by the Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC) is in response to the upcoming implementation of Article 8 of the EU Energy Efficiency Directive. So what is ESOS? It stands for energy saving opportunity scheme. It requires all...
Nov 21, 2014 | Steam Engineering and Design
Steam is used extensively in the power industry to produce electricity. High pressure steam is used to turn a steam turbine at thousands of revolutions per minute, which is connected to an electrical generator. This electrical generator then generates electricity...
Nov 8, 2014 | Steam Engineering and Design
To protect a steam boiler, and produce the correct quality of steam, the water quality in the boiler must be maintained. Even when a good and correct water treatment plant and regime is used there will still be a requirement to blow impurities out of the boiler. If we...
Nov 5, 2014 | Steam Engineering and Design
An economiser on a steam boiler is a sure way to fuel and therefore cost savings, as well as C02 reductions. In this article we look at what an economizer is and installing on steam boilers. A feedwater economiser is a heat exchanger which recovers heat from the flue...
Oct 28, 2014 | Steam Engineering and Design
Superheated steam, sounds like something out of science fiction. In actual fact it’s not. Superheated steam is formed by the further heating of saturated steam. It is therefore hotter and contains more energy than saturated steam. Superheated steam does not however...
