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• What Are The Main Reasons For Generating Steam?

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• What are the main reasons for generating steam?
The main reasons for generating steam are to; use it to generate electricity in a power plant. The steam is pressurised and comes into contact with a turbine which then is forced to turn and when this is done around a magnetic field, electricity is formed. Another use for steam is to use it as a heat transfer material in the process industry. The steam that is generated inside a boiler will be transported into a heat exchanger, this then gives off its heat to allow the heating of the process fluid. The steam from both methods will condense when it gives up most of its energy and can be reused in the system in an attempt to save raw water usages.
• Identify the types of boiler feed water.
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When pipes are not lagged they give off a very high amount of heat energy if the pipe contains hot materials. Also workers nearby could burn themselves if they make physical contact with the hot surface. Insulating lagging such as fibre glass, magnesia and slag wool all have low thermal conductivity so most of the heat in the pipe will not be able to escape so the temperature of the liquid travelling through a pipe will lose the smallest amount of heat possible. Reflective lagging can also be used; this reflects radiation such as heat from the sun as the surface is shiny and metallic so the radiation rays cannot be absorbed. The key reason why lagging is used in steam systems is that a lot of energy is put into getting the steam up to the desired temperature so it is a waste to lose this energy when it could be …show more content…

The valve is manufactured to open when a certain amount of pressure in a system is achieved; the valve that works on the tension of a spring will open, allowing the exit of the vapour causing the high pressure so that the system pressure goes back down to normal working parameters. Check/Non return valves:
Check valves or non-return valves are used to ensure there is only one direction of flow; these are commonly used when there is a larger pressure downstream so it stops the pressure coming back up the pipeline. These are often also found before the entry into a reactor vessel so that an unstable reaction is unable to occur before all of the reactants are inside the reactor vessel. These often work on springs and are also found on both sides of the piston chamber, around the inlet and outlet of the chamber in any kind of piston found from a reciprocating pump to car engines. http://uk.grundfos.com/service-support/encyclopedia-search/non-return-valve.html Globe

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