Adventures In Steam Heating

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Adventures In Steam Heating

In this episode, Dan Holohan shares some basic principles of how steam heating systems operate and why opportunity knocks for those who work on them.

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ChrisG525

steam boiler two pipe system steam trap at the end of the main is not getting hot only 160° on the inlet hundred degrees on the outlet

Condensate return using a vacuum-system. Vacuum tank running well and service the steam trap at the end of that run and still no heat on the risers. Please help

pedmec

are you sure your pump is pulling a vacuum?

Jamie Hall

If the steam trap at the end of the main — a crossover trap, I presume, to a dry return? — isn't getting hot, steam isn't getting there. So… how far down the main does steam get? How is (are) the dry return(s) vented? Are they hooked up to the vacuum pump or atmospheric vented? Do they, or any part of them, get hot? And… where are your drips to the wet returns? Are they clear? No stray traps to double trap things?

Really need a lot more description of this system.

Mad Dog_2

Outstanding Dano! Mad Dog