When saturated steam at 0.8 MPa is reduced to 0.1 MPa and then sent to the heat exchanger, is a temperature regulator needed?
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When saturated steam at 0.8 MPa is reduced to 0.1 MPa and then fed into the heat exchanger, what is the superheat? Is a temperature regulator needed?
Saturated steam at 0.8 Mpa is around 170°C; to reduce the pressure to 0.1 Mpa, a desuperheater is required. The temperature of saturated steam at 0.1 Mpa is close to 100°C. The superheat level can be determined through thermal calculations based on the amount of water used for desuperheating, which allows the steam temperature to be calculated. Hope it’s adopted!
It depends on the requirements of the medium used in the heating process.