Steam Trap Surveys. Steam Trap Management.

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

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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.

Safety Relief Valve Surveys and Services

Remanufactured Safety Relief Valves 

Save you money, time...

AND we provide you a
TWO-YEAR performance warranty.

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.

Why Fix Steam Leaks?

Steam Leak Surveys provide compelling paths to energy savings with paybacks in MONTHS!!!

A Primer on BOILER PRIMING / Carryover Problems

If you are experiencing "boiler priming", sometimes called "carry over", resulting in boiler plant shut-downs and/or water hammer, there is good news.  

There are a number of solutions that can readily mitigate this.  

Contact ERB and Associates, Inc.
Richard Bockwinkel by phone: 913.579.7688 or eMail: Bock@erbsteam.com.


The PRIMER...In a boiler steam bubbles are continually bursting at the steam water interface and ejecting boiler water drops into the steam space.

As the rate of steaming increases a point is reached where the steam bubbles are arriving at the surface faster than they are being removed, they accumulate as foam.

Steam released from the bursting bubbles move towards the steam outlet carrying with it smaller water droplets and taking with it any foam.

The steam also drags the surface of the boiler water towards the steam outlet so that the water level at that point can be higher than elsewhere, depending on the positions of the level controls this may cause the feed pumps to deliver water and thus raising the water level further.


As the water level is raised the volume of the steam space is decreased, the speed of the steam across the surface is increased drawing foam and water droplets towards the steam outlet. A sudden increase in steam demand can cause a slug of boiler water to enter the steam outlet.  This is known as priming.  Operation of the boiler below its design pressure will also produce a similar effect.

Pre-Insulated Tubing EQUALS Instant Steam/Condensate "PIPING"

Less Costly...More Satisfying.  

The beauty of pre insulated steam tubing is its ease of installation; not to mention that you can color code fluid transfer lines...steam, condensate, compressed air, nitrogen and so forth...  

The practicality is impressive.  There are less fittings required; thus less leak points...less time to install...and less contamination potential from thread sealant materials migrating into the fluid space.

Specialized Coatings for Safety and Energy Savings