Steam condensate recovery
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How do different companies handle steam and liquid recovery in chemical processing plants?
This post was last edited by qugd on 2022-10-4 at 14:32. There are basically two approaches to recovering steam condensate in enterprises: condensate of acceptable quality is directly fed back into the pure water preparation process on the boiler feedwater side, while condensate of poor quality is directed to pipelines for other purposes, such as circulating hot water or make-up water for cooling systems; this is because on-site discharge is no longer permitted nowadays. As for whether the quality is satisfactory or not, different companies and different applications may have their own respective standards.
Generally, large quantities are collected for reuse; the place where they are reused depends on their quality. For smaller quantities, they are often discharged directly (although this is rather wasteful).