Representing

High Marks for Steam Expertise

 

Plumbers, Pipe-fitters and Steam-fitters

 Plumbers are not Pipe-fitters.  Each has specific skill sets.

Steam Fitters...have specific skill sets that are NOT akin to Pipe Fitting and Plumbing.

POINT...if it's a STEAM job...don't hire any outfit that does not provide TENURED, SKILLED steam fitters.

Best Practices with steam fitting is not something to lay off on a jack of all trades.

Steam Trap Surveys. Steam Trap Management.

STEAM TRAP SURVEYS...an Energy Conservation Measure (ECM) with compelling paybacks.  

Some states offer rebates and incentives that further improve cost recovery while boosting heat integration at your facility.

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STEAM TRAP SURVEYS...Keeping you on the path of peak energy optimization.

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The objective of the plenary program is to integrate specifications (product selection and sizing) and standards complemented by installation best practices.  The program includes:

1. Site-wide steam trap study (more deliverables than a performance survey)
2. Audit of Specifications
3. Audit of Standards
4. Audit of Purchases/Warehouse stock
5. Development of integrated solutions

Several other scopes are available as listed below.  Call or email for details.

1. Baseline
2. Benchmark
3. Audit
4. Pass/Fail
5. Performance
6. Turnkey

Rick Bockwinkel

Phone:  913.579.7688

EMail:  Bock@ERBSteam.com

Heat Exchangers Hammering? Tube Bundles Fouling and Failing?

Do you have heat exchangers (i.e. Reboilers) HAMMERING and/or losing tubes like this heat exchanger?  

This device is not evacuating condensate, thus the significant temperature differential.  This backing up of condensate in the heating space reduces surface area AND poses a potential for thermal and hydraulic shock that will damage tubes, create leaks and destroy equipment.  It also reduces throughput and can impact product quality.

Steam / Water Mixing Valve. Washdown and Process Tempered Water instantaneously...safely.

Instantaneous HOT Water

SAFE

Typically Used for Washdown, CIP, COP applications

Wide Range of Flows

Steam Trap AUDITS are not Steam Trap SURVEYS

Relatively Speaking...
You should have an Audit of your Steam Trap Survey....

When it comes to steam trap services, be careful about using the words "SURVEY" and "AUDIT" interchangeably.  There is a difference.

A Survey mandates a physical inspection…whereas an AUDIT is a study of a SURVEY.

So…what's the POINT?

If you have had a Steam Trap Survey and don't know what to do with it, we can help.

Send your steam trap survey as an editable file (i.e. Excel format) or in a PDF format and a QUICK audit of that data and a one page summary of observations and opportunities will be returned.

No obligation...

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Best Practices: Steam Control Valve Installation Illustration

The illustration provided is accurate with regard to componentry and sequencing. 

However, what is not shown is SIZING and SPECIFICATIONS. 

ERB and Associates specializes in coordinating the installation and commissioning phase of projects to ensure performance and lasting results.

When you say Steam...what do people think?

People invariably think of steam as something for cleaning or ironing...or running a locomotive.  But steam is much more pervasive than that!  Steam is the single most widely used DERIVED energy source on the planet.

Get the most out of it...and hone your competitive advantage.

The FIRST ALL STEAM TURBINE STATION in AMERICA 1903

And in the foyer, in the VISITOR log that is on DISPLAY...see below...the name... 
Thomas Edison, Inventor.

Unfortunately there was no room on that page for me to sign in ;-)

90.9% of all Electrical Power is DERIVED from STEAM

Steam is not only a POWERful energy, it is a tremendous GREEN utility that provides outstanding heat transfer as it changes phase from GAS to LIQUID...a fluid you could pour in any river and thereby improve the water quality of that stream...

Richard Bockwinkel has been optimizing steam systems since 1975.