Hello Katmar,
We checked the condenser & it is sloped so we made up a length of pipe with a vanstone on one end and inserted it through the tank nozzle, at the lower end of the condenser, so the end of the pipe extends down near the bottom of the receiver ensuring it will be below the water...
Thanks very much for your reply. The piping does seem suspicious in that when I'm looking at it I wonder how does the steam "know" which line to travel up to the condenser. As far as I can tell no provisions had been made to distinguish the steam supply from the condensate return. The condensate...
We have a shell and tube heat exchanger (cooling water on tube side) located above a condensate receiver. It is used to condense flash steam from the receiver & return it back to the receiver. The cooling water flow through the condenser is controlled to maintain receiver pressure at 30 psig...