Recently we have began to look at the performance of our feedwater heaters, and I have a few questions. We are a 700 Net MW plant, with 2 HP heaters, deaerator, and 4 LP Heaters. For about the past year, one of the LP Heaters was at a very low level. Once we noticed this, we changed the...
You're amazingly helpful. I truly appreciate all of the help and guidance you have given. I walked down the system with an operator and after that and looking at the P&IDs as well as all the data I have, it looks like the main cause to the issue of steam being created from a blockage in a Y...
Here is a snapshot of the worst performing pump. It measures flow vs efficiency which I calculated. The black line is the pump curve provided by the manufacturer. Link
Thanks all for the suggestions. It has been a lot of help.
Sorry for delays, I got pulled into another project. Seems like that happens a lot. I should have been more descriptive with my post. When I began looking at this, I spoke with maintenance and operations departments to determine what...
Hello, I work in a steam generation facility, and am currently having issues with condensate pumps. Forgive my ignorance, I am a recent graduate and don't know much about pumps, or the facility in general. The plant has 3 vertical condensate pumps. Two are in operation at any time, with one as a...
