Re: Piping High Pressure Return into Low Pressure Steam Main

From: <Christopher>
Date: Tue Mar 01 2005 - 12:23:00 EST

On Mar 1, 2005, at 7:37 AM, Ken Nisly-Nagele wrote:

> Does anyone have experience, positive or negative, with the practice of
> piping high pressure return into low pressure steam mains?
As a general rule, you don't connect a high pressure and a low pressure system at all except maybe for a common vent to atmospheric pressure. You risk having pressure control problems, and if the high pressure system were to become restricted downstream of the connection for any reason, you risk blowing up the low pressure system. Christopher Wright P.E. |"They couldn't hit an elephant at <a href="/group/PipingDesign/post?postID=LLlnlBqHzm6Ok3gzrpjTpjoOQO_Ea1axHusRCIg5eyiP1HVzIL4CRjINy0KXc33DNOYY5P0KrF_VjbFQLIg">chrisw@skypoint.com</a> | this distance" (last words of Gen.

.......................................| John Sedgwick, Spotsylvania

1864)
<a href="http://www.skypoint.com/~chrisw/">http://www.skypoint.com/~chrisw/</a> Received on Tue Mar 01 12:23:00 2005