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condensate traps

steve_164
steve_164 Member Posts: 10
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Is there a formula to figure out the depth of condensate traps?

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  • Al Letellier_9
    Al Letellier_9 Member Posts: 929
    trap depth

    What kind of trap are you referring to? Steam or AC condensate? What exactly are you looking for?

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  • Joe Billow_6
    Joe Billow_6 Member Posts: 69


    Are you talking about a thermal trap? Condensate traps are usually buckets, installed after radiation with drain down or fixed orifice which are installed the same except you have to size the orifice. I personally do not like the fixed orifice. I think that orifice traps are kind of a scam. I worked for a company that bought into it the fixed orifice theory at the time I started with them. They only changed out half their traps and the orifice people talked about how much better returns they where getting and no more wet radiation. I used a IR thermometer to show them that most of their buckets that where left where bad and that probably the ones changed to orifices where too. They also had a varying load that does not work well with fixed orifice traps
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