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Water hammer is typically caused by one of four reasons; 1. Rapid valve closure. Valve closes quickly and the fluid momentum is changed. Quick changes in fluid momentum result in large forces applied at the location of the momentum change, and a high energy shock wave which must dissipate its...

Thanks sOeebuch! Just to clarify! The steam generator blowdown is continuous. No cooling water line at discharge. Both the flash steam and flash tank condensate drains will be piped to the same heat exchanger (feedwater heater). The flash tank steam introduced to the heat exchanger through...

First time for me! Need some help or advice from the groups experience here. We are installing a blowdown recovery system. A maximum of 60 gpm of saturated liquid at 1000 psia (boiler conditions) will be piped to a new flash tank (sized appropriately by flask tank manufacturer). The flash...