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Vincent Ferguson & Alan Standerwick, Spirax Sarco, Inc., Blythewood, SC

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Workforce Development May 1, 2005

Five common steam line sizing errors

When operating a boiler for process or building heat, engineers deal with a dynamic system. Phase changes, mass and energy balances, mixed-phase flows, non-Newtonian compressible gases, changes in pressure and velocity, and production-based or seasonal load swings are characteristics of this complex system.

By Vincent Ferguson & Alan Standerwick, Spirax Sarco, Inc., Blythewood, SC