Whether you want to check the health of your steam traps, or partner with us to ensure your processes run trouble free, our Complete Steam Trap Management programme can be tailored to suit your needs, offering a total customer solution.
Supply and installation of replacement components that are quick and easy to maintain by either your maintenance team or our experienced service teams to ensure reliable delivery of steam to your process. This reduces the risk of unplanned failures and lowers the overall cost of ownership of the steam system.
Healthy steam traps enable the steam system to deliver the thermal energy required for your process applications to operate effectively. Condensate in your steam supply can affect the operation of applications, causing issues such as slow start up times and poor heat transfer. Removing the condensate from your system allows the steam to perform its task within your process efficiently.
Effective steam trap management is essential if you are expanding your production line or have plans to grow your process in the future. Seamlessly connecting new and existing steam systems requires an integration partner that you can trust. For new steam and thermal energy projects, we have a specialist team dedicated to helping keep your project on track and within budget during design, installation, commissioning and ongoing support.
As with all the utilities in your plant, steam must be well managed to ensure safe operation. Steam traps that are unable to remove condensate from your system pose a potential hazard. Effective steam trapping allows condensate to be removed from your system, reducing the likelihood of potentially hazardous situations.
Listen now to episodes 8 and 9 in our Talk Steam To Me podcast series and hear how steam system assessments and our complete steam trap management program can help you achieve your sustainability goals and help you save money.
Did you know irrespective of the type or brand, steam traps are recognized as a potential source for significant energy loss?
In this recorded webinar Spirax Sarco steam experts, Jennifer Carlino and Jarrett Dozier discuss steam trap maintenance programs and how they can identify steam leaks with the goal of targeting and prioritizing areas of the plant, which with further investigation, could lead to greater savings and improvements. In addition, our experts will identify opportunities to reduce total cost of ownership and share best practices for steam applications.
Accurate, consistent surveys help prevent serious issues such as: water hammer, elevated energy waste and fuel consumption, frozen lines, production stoppages and unscheduled downtime, as well as increased equipment maintenance, repair and associated hours.
We have the knowledge, tools and expertise necessary to help you maintain low trap failure rates and shorten the lead time between detection of an issue and replacement. By providing access to the real-time status of your steam traps, we make it possible to replace failed traps before they have a negative impact on your processes and efficiency. Whichever option you choose, your data is owned by you and protected by the high-level security of SAGE.
Our technicians are steam and condensate system experts, with extensive experience in testing thousands of steam traps each year. Armstrong survey techs have met all requirements and have satisfactorily completed all the appropriate Armstrong University coursework for their level.
There are many reasons for seeking expert help with your steam system. From a need to increase your sustainability credentials by reducing CO2 emissions by employing the latest technology, to improving performance in the steam and condensate loop.
Whether you're looking for a comprehensive audit to identify potential upgrades, or if your current process isn't giving you the temperatures you need consistently, Gestra is at hand to offer help and support.
Armed with this detailed information, we'll be able to give you a range of options on how to achieve an optimal steam system. This might be as straightforward as replacing defective steam traps with state-of-the-art Gestra models, to complex Energy Audits, or improving your system's layout to remove bottlenecks and reach higher sustainability targets.
Whatever the size of your steam system, however complex or simple, your business can also benefit from Gestra's experience and expertise. We've been helping customers like you for over 120 years now - don't leave it to chance: Contact your local team today
All EM&T members are TLV TrapMan factory-trained and certified and have 10+ years of steam-trap testing experience in a variety of applications. EM&T has a spotless safety record with zero incidents, accidents, or recordables. All members participate in background checks, TWIC, and random D&A testing programs.
Boiler and burner maintenance is a critical component of plant safety, efficiency and uptime. Early identification of potential safety-system issues helps prevent costly mishaps and assists with continued approval and certification of the burner system by local authorities and insurance companies.
Does it seem like there is a perpetual monsoon in your plant? Do you have a hard time hearing your employees over the sledgehammer-on-steel sounds that your steam pipes make? Has the graph that shows your year over year steam usage begun to look like a textbook exponential graph?If so, it may be time to start looking at getting your steam traps looked at.Bestobell AquaTronix has extensive experience with any steam system whether it be five traps or five thousand traps, we have done it all! When the reccommendations are followed, a steam trap survey can have one of the fastest ROIs of any maintenance project. Even a small leak on a low pressure system can cost you hundreds of dollars a year, and in our experience, most plants will probably have about 10% of their steam traps fail each year.
TLV's vast experience of steam trap surveys and extensive knowledge of steam traps and equipment enables us to constantly pursue ways to improve the accuracy of diagnosis, to provide objective and quantitative output, and to enable our clients to continuously manage their steam traps and achieve energy savings.
Steam leakage from steam traps and bypass valves can be quantified and converted into monetary values to accurately grasp the effect.
In particular, steam loss represents a significant amount of money when viewed on a plant-wide basis.
To help site users achieve peace of mind, surveys are specifically designed to provide reliable data which can be used to perform budget allocations and analyze return on investment. These methods can be a key resource for sites to precisely estimate financial gains and establish a concrete plan to reduce failures.
"Eliminating such a large number of defective steam traps will allow us to save energy."
We hear this from many steam users, who also find that it is more difficult than expected to put this into practice. When asked what problems and issues they had before requesting a steam trap survey, our users had this to say:
Analyzing the failure rate of a sample of approximately 170,000 traps surveyed in Japan on a site-wide basis, the failure rate was 25.0% at the time of the first survey, but fell to 9.4% in the fourth year after implementing TLV's trap management program on a regular basis.
Our surveys utilize the latest TrapMan diagnostic equipment specially developed by TLV.
The equipment can be used for non-TLV products, and it automatically determines the operation and quantifies the amount of steam leakage. Its reliability has been evaluated by an internationally recognized third-party certification organization.
Surveys are performed by TLV-trained and accredited professional personnel.
The amount of steam leakage is converted into a monetary value and losses are clearly indicated. Recommended models are selected for the parts that need to be replaced.
As a general rule, the failure rate, defective parts, and amount of loss are reported on the day the diagnosis is completed.
We collect data covering up to 64 items, including steam traps, peripheral valves, piping, operating conditions, etc. We determine the year of installation (= service period) from the serial number, lot number, etc., as well as the manufacturer and model of the trap.
We then prepare and submit a trap survey list and layout drawing based on the information collected .
In addition to the operational status of the trap itself, TLV's surveys also check for leakage of the bypass valves, the open/closed status of the upstream valve, and the operational status of the equipment ahead of the trap to estimate and quantify the total amount of internal leakage.
APM Steam experts conduct steam trap surveys to test and document operational status using ultrasound and temperature differentials. Survey data provides a complete trap inventory and system information in a report outlining findings and recommendations, a synopsis of results and a return-on-investment calculation that compares replacement costs with losses associated with failed traps. The report also includes trap application problems and specific recommendations for trap and trap station improvements.
Throughout the survey, APM Steam field technicians evaluate elements surrounding the steam trap, including isolation valves, inlet strainers, strainer blowdown valves, outlet check valves, trap station bypasses, test valves and sight glass flow indicators. The survey also evaluates all features of a properly working trap station that allows technicians to work on it safely without being exposed to live steam present in the system. These issues could prevent technicians from repairing without requiring a disruptive facility shutdown.
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