Steam Trap Performance and Process Plant Efficiency
The Importance of Steam Traps
? Process efficiency
? Safety
? Energy saving
Steam traps valve are important in maintaining and operating efficiency of a steam system. A malfunctioning steam trap can bring about a number of problems, including the following:-
A blocked trap
The trap may be blocked by debris such as pipe scale, or feed-water chemicals that have been carried over from the boiler entrained within the steam itself. Alternatively, the trap mechanism may have failed and the valve that controls the flow of condensate through the trap could be closed on the seating surface of the orifice. The effect of the above is to hold back condensate in the