What is the purpose of installing a liquid seal tank with a suction steam silencer in a gasification unit?
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What is the purpose of installing a liquid seal tank with a suction steam silencer in a gasification unit? What are the effects of not having a silencer liquid seal tank?
Is it considering the risk that, when steam extraction is not in use, atmospheric air might enter the pipeline connected to the syngas? Install a liquid seal to prevent gas from entering?
It is recommended to use a simple flowchart to describe it, as each company’s approach is likely to be different
A liquid seal tank is used to collect condensate; without it, steam will condense and form water at the silencer
Collect the condensate; otherwise, when steam is drawn off, it will blow the condensate everywhere.
Collect the condensate; additionally, the liquid level in the condensate tank serves as a liquid seal to prevent vacuum leakage.