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Any Steam Guru's out there??

Tony Conner_2
Tony Conner_2 Member Posts: 443
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... will likely be the safety valve setting for both the boiler & the kettle, as opposed to operating pressure. A 3/4" line at 7 PSIG will pass about 125 #/hr, assuming that the steam line is fairly short - maybe 50 feet or so. That steam flow should be really close to delivering the 119,000 BTU/hr (I'm assuming that you mean thousands of BTU) kettle rating. The heat input number for the kettle is likely the maximum heat transfer it's capable of, under whatever the standard design conditions are, as opposed to what it may actually need to deliver in this particular application.

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  • Dan_22
    Dan_22 Member Posts: 24
    Any Steam Guru's out there??

    Does anyone know how may btu's per hour of steam I can deliver through a 3/4" line at 7psi?
  • Steve Garson_2
    Steve Garson_2 Member Posts: 712


    Why are you running 7psi through a 3/4-inch pipe?
    Steve from Denver, CO
  • Robert O'Connor_11
    Robert O'Connor_11 Member Posts: 42
    no guru

    but about 23mbh

    Robert

    ME
  • Dan_22
    Dan_22 Member Posts: 24
    Any Steam Guru's out there??

    Steve,

    I just installed a Market Forge steam generator that supplies a two compartment food steamer and a 60 gallon steam kettle.
    The steam kettle rating is 119 btu/hr of steam at 15 psi.
    The generator would not run right at 15 psi and the manufacturer told me to run it at 7psi. We got in a little bit of a pissing match when I mentioned it will decrease the output of the kettle considerably but they assured me it would not. To me that just dont make sense. If you cut the pressure in half doesn't the output decrease in relation to the pressure drop.
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