Precise steam production and distribution monitoring saves operating and maintenance costs
Utility management objectives often include the efficient management of the steam production and distribution essential to core processes. Operational challenges include protecting the integrity of boiler equipment, control systems, and infrastructure, as well as reducing heat loss in distribution and optimizing fuel consumption and heat exchangers. Accurate and reliable measurement and monitoring enable such challenges to be overcome, and operational and maintenance efficiencies to be unlocked.
EUR 4.5
million
of missed potential savings through the misunderstanding of boiler efficiency over a typical 10-year operating period.
How we can help
Endress+Hauser combines a deep understanding of energy and utility management with a broad instrumentation, service and solutions offering to enable steam management with optimal efficiency and safety. Whether in ensuring the quality and supply of feedwater that is integral to the efficiency and lifespan of a boiler, in determining the accuracy of measurement results, or in identifying and quantifying losses in the steam system, we help minimize operating and maintenance costs.
Benefit from class-leading quality and reliability, plus direct access to in-house expertise and industry know-how
Optimize maintenance with local support for your daily challenges
Comply with environmental protection, energy management, as well as boiler and piping relevant standards
Applications
Feedwater preparation
Ensuring a regular supply of the highest quality feedwater is not only vital to optimal boiler productivity, it helps avoid early equipment failures, costly blowdowns, and corrosion.
Our expertise in the field
Endress+Hauser Prowirl F 200 flowmeter and iTHERM TM131 thermometer deliver the essential information and insights to optimize feedwater preparation and reduce operating costs. Our Steam/Water Analysis System helps you continuously check the quality of your feedwater.
Maximize feedwater quality for efficient steam production
Optimize water preparation consumables for cost savings
Accurate measurement of how effectively the heat content of a fuel is transformed into usable energy is an essential undertaking to enable optimal boiler performance. However, controlling flow, pressure, incoming combustion air temperature, and exhaust temperature is a complex undertaking.
Our expertise in the field
The Endress+Hauser portfolio offers reliable, safe, and efficient metering and monitoring solutions for flow, pressure and combustion air (temperature and flow), that enable you to maximize the performance of your boiler.
Monitor key parameters to improve boiler efficiency
Detect critical errors in time
Comply with ASME Performance Test Codes (PTC 4-1998) and regulatory standards
Appropriate boiler controls are required to ensure a readily available and efficient steam supply for effective utilities plant operations.
Our expertise in the field
Endress+Hauser offers tried and tested technologies such as Vortex to accurately measure the continuous flow during steam generation, unlocking substantial efficiency gains. Our flow metering products and solutions are engineered to improve overall availability and efficiency. Our solutions for continuous boiler water level measurement and level switches help you comply with standards like IEC 61511 and increase safety.
Ensure accurate boiler controls for efficient steam generation
Maximize fuel potential to drive cost savings
Extend calibration intervals to minimize downtime with innovative Heartbeat Technology
Primary challenges in the delivery of steam from the boiler house to its different points of end-use are minimizing energy loss in transit and protecting essential infrastructure.
Our expertise in the field
To help meet this need, Endress+Hauser has created the Energy Measurement Proving Service. Our technical experts perform on-site calibrations and verify the accuracy of your steam energy measurement, enabling you to enhance and sustain the efficiency of your steam distribution systems.
Provide adequate insulation to pipework
Monitor steam traps and energy losses
Minimize risks of water hammer to protect infrastructure
Steam reaches the heat exchanger either superheated or with varying degrees of wetness, however for efficient energy transfer, steam should ideally be 100% dry saturated. Moreover, wet steam can lead to increased risk of water hammer and associated wear to infrastructure.
Our expertise in the field
Endress+Hauser instrumentation enables the direct measurement of wet and dry steam, helping to ensure the best conditions for efficient heat exchanger performance. Our multivariable Vortex flowmeter Prowirl F 200 even allows you to compensate steam by pressure, temperature and dryness fraction and output mass, energy, and steam quality.
Leverage instrumentation compliant with industry standards ((IAPWS- IF97/ASME)
Learn where to measure for a more efficient process
Steam application parameters
Benefits
Whether you need support for an individual instrument or a managed service contract covering a combination of products, software and solutions, you can rely on us. We aim for safe, efficient and available steam and we understand your daily challenges as Energy and Utility Managers. Serving before earning is our founder’s principle and it has shaped our company to this day.
5 to 15%
is the estimated savings generated from energy management solutions
20,000
Euros saved each year with the use of economizers corresponds to the annual fuel costs of EUR 1 million.
2%
is the typical improvement of boiler efficiency for every 10°C (50°F) of feedwater temperature increase using economizers.
Browse through our portfolio!
Analysis
Analysis
Water, beverages, dairy products, chemicals or pharmaceuticals have to be analyzed every day. Choose the device best suited to your process needs from our comprehensive product portfolio.
Flowmeter
Flowmeter
Water, natural gas, steam, mineral oil, chemicals are some of the fluids that have to be measured day in, day out. Select the flowmeter best suited to your process needs.
Level
Level
Continuous level measurement and point level detection in liquids and bulk solids
Pressure
Pressure
Powerful instruments for process pressure, differential pressure, level and flow.
Software
Software
Apart from all relevant measuring and system technologies, we also offer appropriate software for all branches of industry that provide to run your operating processes at its full potential.
System products
System products
Applicator
Temperature measurement
Temperature measurement
Thermometers and transmitters for the process industry
Instrumentation Services
Instrumentation Services
Maximize plant performance, minimize OPEX, increase uptime, all with compliance. Partner with Endress+Hauser instrumentation services.
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