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Does It Pay To Fix Those Steam Traps?
Does It Pay To Fix Those Steam Traps?
Short answer: It sure does, but not in the way you may think.
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All the best, T.P. Tunstall
Minnich Hydronic Consulting & Design
However, one could argue that due to the lost steam via the failed open trap, that may still cause a boiler burner to run longer in some systems, as it tries to satisfy the pressuretrol setting, while pressure is being lost to the return side. Possibly heat-timer controlled boilers may not suffer as much from this. That all said, I totally agree that the 'real' energy savings mechanisms are more complex than the simplified "orifice leakage = energy saved" concept.
- Jon Katz