From GEM (A Thermal Energy International Company)
The job of a steam trap is to trap, or hold, steam within the steam system while draining condensate out of it.
It sounds simple, but a steam trap also has to:
* Vent air and non-condensable gases at start-up;
* Discharge large quantities of cold condensate as steam enters the system;
* Discharge much smaller amounts of hot condensate on achieving temperature, and over varying conditions, without passing live steam.
In the past, only mechanical traps have been available to tackle these demands. They have large orifices with various bucket and float valve mechanisms, and they do the job with various degrees of success. But they all have moving parts which, in time, fail.
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