Innovative Flooded Steam Heat Exchanger
If you are a designer that works for consultant engineer or mechanical you might have come across steam network system . Steam piping design is done the same way over the last 100 years or so. The traditional way of design those steam heating system needs a lot of components like 2 (1/3-2/3) pressure reducing valve, 2 (1/3-2/3) control-valve on the steam heat exchanger, a steam relief valve hook to the roof which need maintenance annually and a dedicate condensate return pump with a vent pipe to the roof to eliminate all the flash in return condensate line in order to avoid any water hammer.
If you are a designer that works for consultant engineer or mechanical you might have come across steam network system . Steam piping design is done the same way over the last 100 years or so. The traditional way of design those steam heating system needs a lot of components like 2 (1/3-2/3) pressure reducing valve, 2 (1/3-2/3) control-valve on the steam heat exchanger, a steam relief valve hook to the roof which need maintenance annually and a dedicate condensate return pump with a vent pipe to the roof to eliminate all the flash in return condensate line in order to avoid any water hammer.
New steam heating system needs less equipment
No more pressure
reducing valve, no more condensate pump and no more safety relief valve.
This innovative vertical steam heat converter solution that not only avoid all those previous pieces
of equipment but gives also energy savings up to 15%!
The steam system
consist of using a vertical heat exchanger, build for steam process, with a
small control valve install on the condensate return line. By doing so, they flood the heat exchanger.
That allows them to extract not only the latent heat but also the sensible heat
which you don’t do when you use a traditional horizontal heat exchanger
system. And because they work on full
pressure in the steam inlet, they don’t need a vacuum breaker, so they don’t
inject oxygen in you return lines anymore.
It
requires no safety valve to the roof
The vertical steam
heat exchanger comes with an ASME (CRN
for Canada) stamp for high pressure vessel on the heat exchanger and all the
other components. This way the safety
valve is not needed.
There is over 400
installations around United States and Canada. Mostly use in Hospitals,
Colleges &Universities and some industry, this unique concept is the new way
of designing steam network.
And the big question is why we didn’t do this
before?
Well if you take a
look at the traditional manufacturer in the steam business, not only they offer
heat exchanger concepts but also all the components needed to make this work,
so by pushing this type of concept (flooded steam heat exchanger) they will
lose a lot of return business in maintenance over years. Like the pressure
reducing valves and steam condensate pumps.
Maxi-Therm is a new player
in the steam market, not only they manufacture building heat and domestic hot
water system but also a clean steam generator and a condensate mixer that avoid
the needs of multiple condensate return lines.
They simply offer all the solutions to have a 100% close loop on steam
with no vents to the roof or the wall.
To know more about
Maxi-Therm visit www.maxi-therm.net. (514) 351-1001
