TEAM UP! FOR STEAM AND CONDENSATE PIPING SYSTEMS SAVINGS

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TEAM UP! FOR STEAM AND CONDENSATE PIPING SYSTEMS
SAVINGS

• It can be as easy as
• fixing a leaky steam trap.

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Why should we care?

• For the environment
• For the bottom line

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Why should we care?

• For the environment
• Fixing a leaky steam trap can
• capture big environmental
• gains.

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Why should we care?

• For the bottom line
• Ten pairs of uninsulated NPS 6 flanges will cause
  an annual
• heat loss of 1,000.

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Where is energy wasted?

• Redundant pipes
• Steam leaks
• Steam trap losses
• Heat loss through uninsulated
• pipes and fittings

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What can we do?

1. Housekeeping
2. Low-cost opportunities
3. Retrofits

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What can we do?

• 1. Housekeeping (cont.)
• Regularly inspect and maintain
• steam traps.
• Fix steam and condensate leaks.
• Ensure good steam quality by maintaining chemical
  water treatment.

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What can we do?

• 1. Housekeeping (cont.)
• Repair damaged pipe insulation.
• Shut down equipment when
• not needed.
• Shut down steam and condensate branch systems
  when not needed.

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What can we do?

• 2. Low-cost opportunities
• Overhaul pressure-reducing stations.
• Insulate pipes, flanges, fittings and equipment.
  (Three metres of uninsulated 10-centimetre steam
  pipe will waste more than twice as much money in
  steam costs per year than it would cost to
  insulate.)

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What can we do?

• 2. Low-cost opportunities (cont.)
• Remove redundant steam and condensate piping.
• Re-pipe systems or move equipment
• to shorten pipe lengths to minimize
• heat loss and steam leaks.
• Repair, replace or add air vents.
• Optimize the location of sensors.
• suggestion Put sensors in the best
  locations.

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What can we do?

• 3. Retrofits
• Upgrade insulation.
• Eliminate steam use where possible.
• Replace old steam traps or ones that are the
  wrong size or type.

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What can we do?

• 3. Retrofits (cont.)
• Optimize pipe sizes.
• Oversized while undersized pipes require higher
  pressure, lead to higher leakage and require
  extra pumping energy.

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What can we do?

• 3. Retrofits (cont.)
• Depressurize condensate.
• Recover heat from condensate.
• Install a closed-loop pressurized condensate
  return.
• Measure steam and condensate flows with a meter.

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How can we do it?

• We have the people.
• We have the tools.
• oee.nrcan.gc.ca/industrial

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Thank you

• Together we can make it happen.
• Its good for the environment.
• Its good for the bottom line.