Corrugator Steam
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The EPA is announcing that the period for providing public comments on the November 30, 2012, proposed ‘‘Reconsideration of Certain New Source and Startup/Shutdown Issues: National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants from Coal and Oil-fired Electric Utility Steam Generating Units and Standards of Performance for Fossil-Fuel-Fired Electric Utility, Industrial-Commercial-Institutional, and Small Industrial- Commercial-Institutional Steam Generating Units’’ is being extended by 7 days.
DATES: The public comment period for the proposed rule published November 30, 2012 (77 FR 71323), is extended by 7 days to January 7, 2013.
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Kelly Paffel
The National Board has a very good paper on combustion air for the boiler room or plant.
We have two 60,000 lbs package Watertube boilers burning methane gas from a land fill. The methane gas is being delivered into furnace area through a gas ring. Natural gas is also being used at the same time (40 to50% methane and the rest is made up with natural gas). Natural gas is being delivered through a center gas gun. There is a white residual building up on the boiler tube walls. There is a indication of this white residual through the system (economizer and stack). Question: Does any one have experience on this situation and is there a solution to prevent the build up of the residual. Thank you for your help
If you operate a boiler plant, you should be aware of three rules that will regulate facilities considered potential sources of hazardous air pollutants (HAPs). On March 21, 2011, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) published the rules, collectively known as the Boiler Maximum Achievable Control Technology or “Boiler MACT” rules. For many boiler operators the rules will require a one-time assessment, boiler tune-ups every two years, and records and reports in various combinations depending on several factors, including whether you are an “area source” (small source <10 MM Btu/hr) or a “major source” (large source <10 MM Btu/hr).
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Good news: After learning about Boiler MACT Rules, things get much easier. Just have Swagelok Energy Advisors schedule and complete your one-time boiler assessment, boiler tune-ups, and/or both. In fact, Swagelok Energy Advisors is one of the few resources that can have both completed for you. One source you know and trust.
In a steam deaerator, steam serves as the scrubbing agent to reduce the partial pressures of the gases being removed. The phenomenon of gas removal from water through the use of scrubbing in a deaerator can be accomplished in several different ways.
With the scrubbing action occurring, the deaerator must vent the non-condensable gases into atmosphere. Therefore, the only acceptable steam venting from a steam system operation is the Deaerator venting of non-condensable gases with a very small percentage of steam. To accomplish this goal of venting non-condensable gases; the deaerator will vent a small percentage of steam.
With the high cost of steam today, the deaerator vent must be investigated to insure excessive venting of steam is not occurring. Our Steam Group Members have found steam losses that have exceeded $ 100,000.00 a year cause unnecessary venting from the deaerator.
Read the full best practice @ http://www.plantsupport.com/download/PSE_BP_2.pdf
We are a small hospital and we are thinking about removing all of our steam and replacing it with a hot water system. Is there a way to determine what the payback for a project like this would be? We currently have 3 boilers that operate at 120 psig. We only use the 100 psi steam in a few applications such as sterilization. Our domestic hot water system and heating system is a low steam pressure.
Would there be any payback in changing the high pressure systems to low pressure and operating our boilers at 15 psi instead of 100 psi and having a dedicated steam boiler for the sterilizers?
Thank You
Gary Harvath
In a steam deaerator, steam serves as the scrubbing agent to reduce the partial pressures of the gases being removed. The phenomenon of gas removal from water through the use of scrubbing in a deaerator can be accomplished in several different ways.
With the scrubbing action occurring, the deaerator must vent the non-condensable gases into atmosphere. Therefore, the only acceptable steam venting from a steam system operation is the Deaerator venting of non-condensable gases with a very small percentage of steam. To accomplish this goal of venting non-condensable gases; the deaerator will vent a small percentage of steam.
Read more about deaerator venting…
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