Is this wrong?

icesailor

I found this today. It is one of two steam traps on a beer mash cooker. The other one is a Barns & Jones F&T trap. This one is a Spirex Sarco. There is a tag on it and the tag is on the top. Being as dyslexic as I am, I can't read a mirror upside down. The only thing I could make out was an arrow pointing up but was pointing horizontally, and it was made in France and has metric units for measurements,

The kettle heats unevenly. I guess it has heated unevenly since it was installed 7 years ago. Does the trap need to be flipped so that the arrow points up? I would think that it should.

Sorry for the fuzzy photos. It was cold outside in the truck and warm and steamy in the building. A fast as I wiped off the lense, it fogged up again.

bill_105

not at all

Let's see, It starts with beer. A trap is somehow involved.A guy who is dyslexic is wondering if the arrow should point up or down. Throw in it is French and that means Metric! Then the condensation on the camera.Lots of love from alaska. Go Pats

icesailor

Warm Beer:

The French drink wine. This facility doesn't use steam to make wine, Just beer and booze. They use the left over beer mash and anything else that they extract flavor from to make booze. The beer wash makes Vodka or Nock or Notch.

My first assumption is does it work and did it always work. It works but not consistently. There's two steam jackets in the kettle. One on the side, and one on the bottom. That one handles the bottom. The only way I can see the tag is with a mirror because it is on the top. The tag is covered with crud. After cleaning it off, I still have to read through the crud. Someone installed it in this position. I can take it off and flip it. I looked on the Spirex Sarco Web Site and couldn't find a F&T trap like it. The thing works. I want to make it better, not worse.

bob_46

Trap

Ice, the trap should be rotated 90º . It looks like a FT14 . If the condensate in this application has to be lifted you will have temperature control problems.

Attached some interesting reading . Sarco used to put out a very good book called Hook-Ups .

http://www.spiraxsarco.com/us/pdfs/training/hookup.pdf

Steamhead

Ya think

the same guy put that in as the one you posted about a few days ago?



Someone out there really needs to learn what the arrow means!