Boilers and Steam
Everything in The Blueprint of Water about boilers and steam, anchored on Chapter 13: Heating Things Up.
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Concepts (51)
ASME or ABMA Guidelines · Alkalinity · Amine Volatility · Bicarbonate Decomposition · Blowdown · Blowdown Fuel Penalty · Boiler · Boiler Efficiency · Boiler Horsepower · Boiler Tubes · Brine Tank · Carbonic Acid · Carryover · Condensate Energy Value · Condensate Return · Conductivity Controller · Corrosion Rate Rule · Cycles of Concentration · Deaeration · Deaerator · Feedwater Conductivity · Feedwater Tank · Film-Forming Amines · Foaming · Hardness · Hardness Breakthrough · Hydrazine · Ion Exchange · Latent Heat of Vaporization · Neutralizing Amines · Non-Detect · Oxygen Scavenger · Phosphate Sludge Conditioning · Pretreatment · Priming · Regeneration · Scale · Sensor Validation · Silica · Sodium Sulfite · Specific heat of water · Steam · Steam Expansion Ratio · Steam Traps · Steam-Condensate Loop · Stoichiometry · Sulfite Residual · Symptoms Versus Causes · Total Dissolved Solids · Water Hammer · Water Softener
Formulas (13)
Annual Fuel Cost Savings (Condensate) · Blowdown Fuel Cost · Blowdown Heat Loss · Boiler Horsepower Conversion · Carbonic Acid Formation · Corrosion Rate Temperature Rule · Cycles of Concentration (Boiler) · Fuel Energy Saved (Boiler Efficiency Adjustment) · Latent Heat of Vaporization (Steam) · Sensible Heat (Condensate Energy Value) · Sensible Heat to Raise Water (50°F to 212°F) · Sodium Sulfite Oxygen Scavenger Reaction · Sodium Sulfite Stoichiometric Dose Ratio
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Practice problems (10)
P13.01 At 140F feedwater contains roughly 4 mgL · P13.02 A boiler burns 100 billion BTU per year If 132 · P13.03 A facility reports water hammer every weekday · P13.04 List four consequences of losing 50 of · P13.05 Feedwater contains 3 ppm dissolved oxygen a · P13.06 A plant returns 8000 lbhr of condensate at · P13.07 A boiler produces 20000 lbhr of steam · P13.08 Your blowdown conductivity controller reads · P13.09 A technician reports sulfite residual is zero · P13.10 Using the Perfect Storm scenario 90 condensate
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