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Got Steam?
New Techniques for Measuring Steam Quality in Utilities

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Got Steam? New Techniques for Measuring Steam Quality in Utilities

How does steam safety impact you?

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Got Steam? New Techniques for Measuring Steam Quality in Utilities

What we dont measure- we cant control

What is Wet Steam?
80% steam quality

Do you know the quality of your Steam?

100% steam quality

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How do you measure steam quality?

3 Components:
Pressure
Temperature
Amount of liquid (condensate)

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Where am I on the steam curve?

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What is Dryness Fraction

Mass Fraction vs. Volume Fraction Quality is the % mass that is vapor

Quality = 1 Saturated Vapor

Quality = 0 Saturated Liquid

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Application Example Why dryness fraction is a mass term

Low Pressure Steam: Steam Quality 90%
In volume terms: 99.9% of the volume is Vapor

Low Pressure Steam: Steam Quality 10%

In volume terms: 98.9% of the Volume is Vapor

Conclusion: 90% steam quality to 10% steam quality has a volume

difference of 1% resulting in a 340% difference in Energy

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Dangers of Wet Steam

Water Hammer

Erode control valves

Premature failure of steam system

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Impact: Supplying values you need

Direct Mass and Energy

NEW direct 4-20mA input allows temperature and pressure
correction with an output format a customer desires

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Impact: Poor steam quality - expanded

Dryness fraction

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Value: Steam quality energy correction

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Prowirl 200 is optimized for steam measurement

IAPWS - table
The International Association for the
Properties of Water and Steam

Mass and energy

compensation for
wet/saturated and
superheated steam
Compensation with
temperature and
pressure (fixed or
dynamic)

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Causes of Wet Steam

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Got Steam? New Techniques for Measuring Steam Quality in Utilities

Application example: How improving steam quality

impacts the bottom line
Improving your steam quality from 0.8 to 0.95 on a 13000 lb/hr Boiler
80% steam quality

How Much Money does improving my Steam quality from 0.8 to 0.95
save?

95k/year
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95% steam quality

Got Steam? New Techniques for Measuring Steam Quality in Utilities

Application Example: Measuring in Mass vs. Energy

How much are you being
over charged if the steam
you are receiving is 0.9
dryness fraction?

Utility bill will be 8%

higher than it should be

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What have we learned?

Boilerhouse, Marstons Brewery, UK

Your meter is wrong!!

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Brewery Flow Measurement

FT

FT
8022

Air

8023
FT
8017

FT
03
FT
02

Fuel

Blow down

FT
01

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FT
8016

FT8016
FT 02
Saturated
FT(Middle)
01Steam
Fuel
Oil
FT8023
No2bara
insulation
Air
FT8022
PCombustion
=
/ 29psi
FT8017
Saturated
FT 03Steam
T
343F
PSaturated
1bara
15psi
Saturated
Steam
T==173C
25C /Steam
77F
P = 8.5
bara
/ 123psi
Feed
Water
Q
=
1.55t/h
T
=
20C
/
68F
T
=
155C
311F
Q
=
0.785t/h
TT == 155C
/
311F
173C
/ 343F
DN 80
40
DN
QQ
==
13.650t/h
Q
=
2.4t/h
DN
8
2.4t/h
Q_m
=
4.6t/h
VLDN
=
2.6m/s
=
300
250
DN
80m
4.3m/s
Feed water V =
DN
80
DN=100
tank
Q_loss
182kW
= 61.8m/s
=V913.31kg/m
Q_m_cond.
= 0.32t/h
= 121.8cP

Got Steam? New Techniques for Measuring Steam Quality in Utilities

Your flowmeter is wrong!

Comparison of boiler outlet and sub-meters:
FT8023 (Boiler outlet): 4.6t/h
Sum of FT8017, FT8022 and FT8016: 2.4t/h + 2.4t/h + 1.55t/h
= 6.35 t/h

Deviation of 38%
Reason: Prowirl 73

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What is your boiler operation & efficiency plan?

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Classification:
Public

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Thank you very much

for your attention