weeknight
Industrial
- Jun 18, 2011
- 7
Hi Guys,
Looking for some assistance here if possible, working on a project in Australia, steam is a little new to me so am out of my depth a little. Ok I have a 20hp old style boiler rated to 700kpa, the steam pipe is 1 inch directly from the boiler running for 10 metres to the twin pot cooker. The cookers are rated to 260psi and are also guaged to 16bar pressure. I have run the boiler to 700 kpa and then turned on the steam to one of the kettles while it is empty. I get 6 bar pressure maximum, i then pour in 10 litres of cold water and i drop back to 2 bar and stay there even when the water is boiling. I decide to open the valve for cooker number two and the pressure drops away altogether. I think that my infeed pipe of 1 inch is too small to feed one cooker let alone two. The cooker itself came from a different factory and they are trying to marry up the boiler to suit, i wonder if i am being underdone and need more hp on the boiler side or whether i need to increase the size of the infeed pipe from the boiler to the cooker, perhaps 2 inch? Please help if you have time.
Looking for some assistance here if possible, working on a project in Australia, steam is a little new to me so am out of my depth a little. Ok I have a 20hp old style boiler rated to 700kpa, the steam pipe is 1 inch directly from the boiler running for 10 metres to the twin pot cooker. The cookers are rated to 260psi and are also guaged to 16bar pressure. I have run the boiler to 700 kpa and then turned on the steam to one of the kettles while it is empty. I get 6 bar pressure maximum, i then pour in 10 litres of cold water and i drop back to 2 bar and stay there even when the water is boiling. I decide to open the valve for cooker number two and the pressure drops away altogether. I think that my infeed pipe of 1 inch is too small to feed one cooker let alone two. The cooker itself came from a different factory and they are trying to marry up the boiler to suit, i wonder if i am being underdone and need more hp on the boiler side or whether i need to increase the size of the infeed pipe from the boiler to the cooker, perhaps 2 inch? Please help if you have time.
