Energy & Power, Heating, Cooling & Drying

Decrease energy costs with steam trap monitoring

Phil Black - PII Editor 30/06/2011

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You may know intuitively that leaking steam traps in your plant are resulting in lost energy. But do you know how much money is going up in steam? In steam systems that have not been maintained for 3 to 5 years, 15% to 30% of the installed steam traps may have failed. That can equate to millions of dollars on your energy bill. Your once-a-year steam trap inspections give you some protection, but they don’t provide you with visibility to the real-time status of traps. A steam trap that fails the day after an inspection could leak for nearly a full year, wasting energy and potentially putting your process at risk of water hammer.

What if you could have constant visibility to all of your critical steam traps, in a system that is easy to install and maintain?

Emerson Process Management is helping processing plants to significantly reduce their energy costs with automated steam trap monitoring. With the Rosemount® 708 Wireless Acoustic Transmitter, you’ll have up-to-the-minute visibility to all of your critical steam traps through a non-intrusive, wireless monitoring system. Backed by Emerson’s proven experience in Smart Wireless field instrumentation, the Rosemount 708 will enable you to effectively and easily capture significant energy cost savings.

For more information and an explanatory video, visit www.rosemount.com/stopsteamloss

Emerson Process Management, Heath Place, Bognor Regis, PO22 9SH, UK.
Tel: +44 (0)7827 305193
Fax: +44 (0)1243 867554
E-mail: Kerstin.Ochel@Emerson.com
Web: www.rosemount.com/stopsteamloss