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Summary
According to a report from the Federal Energy Management Program, roughly 20% of the steam leaving a typical facility’s central boiler plant in space heating applications is lost due to leaking steam traps. And those are the traps that are “working.” The Department of Energy estimates that between 15% and 30% of steam traps will fail outright if they’re not regularly inspected and maintained. What does this mean for you?
The unfortunate truth is that steam traps leak energy, and many of them fail outright. Which means that even if your company sticks to an arduous and time-consuming schedule of inspecting, maintaining, repairing, and replacing the traps across your facility, you’re still almost certainly losing at least some of the costly energy your steam system produces every day. Worse, if your company doesn’t have a regular trap-maintenance process in place, you are even more likely to experience failures — which will add considerably to your costs, and could result in expensive facility-wide downtime, or even an explosion.
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