Novaspect’s Steam Solutions Team provides improvement opportunities throughout the steam system by providing best-in-class:

• Consultation Expertise • Services • Products

Our staff of senior industrial energy engineers and support engineers are experienced in design, implementation, testing, and maintenance of:

• Steam generation systems• Steam distribution systems• Process and comfort steam use • Condensate recovery systems

We maintain the local talent necessary to assist our clients in enhancing safety, assuring environmental compliance, increasing assetreliability,andimprovingfinancialperformancethroughthermalefficiency.

Steam Generation

Combustionefficiencythroughcontrolschemedesignandboilertuning

• CO reduction • Opacity control • Meeting environmental compliance • Biasingofmulti-boilerloadingforefficiency• Biasingofmulti-fuelloadingforefficiency/cost

Burner management • Burner sequencing schemes • Flame safety system review and design• Spurious burner trip analysis

Feedwater delivery and drum level control upgrades Operator alarm management studies Operational performance logging and reporting design Data acquisition and reporting design Environmental monitoring and reporting systems designMachinery vibration analysis and protection systems for critical rotating equipment

• O2 optimization• NOX control • Ramp rate improvement • Load change responsiveness • Designs for variable BTU fuel

• Minimumfirecontrol• NFPA 85 compliance evaluation• Flame instability analysis

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Steam Distribution

Header pressure disturbance analysis Header prioritization Rebalancing headers for economy Designs for abnormal situations Coordinated control designs to limit operator intervention Application of surplussing valves Selection of the proper header pressure regulating devices Diagnostic testing and repair of regulating devices and transmitters Steam main condensate removal system design Air binding analysis Water hammer analysis Steam trap surveys

• Application-based trap selection • Trapping system design • Trap leakage and mis-operation audits

Steam Use

SteamconditioningforefficientheattransferHeat exchanger analysis and optimization Operating within existing heat exchanger constraints Steam-reboiler analysis and optimizationUsingflashsteamtoimproveefficienciesinmulti-pressuresystems

Condensate Recovery

Economic evaluations for recovery Redesign for stall, negative pressure differential and vacuum conditions Mechanical and motive steam powered pump condensate return system design

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