Wet Steam

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Wet Steam

Dry steam is the good stuff. “Wet” steam is steam that contains more than 2% water. It’s the bad stuff because the water uses up a good portion of the steam’s latent heat before it can get out into the piping. When that happens, the building suffers. The steam dies in the header and the near-boiler piping. The people freeze.

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Duff

Thanks Paul, nice

Phil_17

I'd love to see the rest of the piping on that boiler, because what we can see certainly doesn't look proper. As for insulation, I saw one little bit, but where's the rest?

Learner35

Looks like a job for a Trap Header! You can't make dryer steam in these new smaller design boilers. Otherwise, a very cool demonstration of what's going on inside the piping. Noticed a lot of bouncing on the steam gauge. Water condition looked like it had a lot of impurities in it.