Steam Systems Assessment
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The Steam System Improvement Workshop covers the operation of typical steam systems and discusses methods of system efficiency improvement. The one day workshop is designed for end users – at the energy manager, steam system supervisor, engineer, and operations level – who have steam system responsibilities in industrial and institutional plants.

The workshop is divided into three major categories:

• Steam Generation Efficiency. The boiler is investigated with the target of obtaining optimum steam generation efficiency.
  

• Resource Utilization Effectiveness. Encompasses fuel selection, combined heat and power systems, steam system balancing and steam end users. The course covers the basic concepts of combined heat and power systems along with opportunities associated with steam system balancing.
  

• Steam Distribution System Losses. Focus areas include: steam leaks, heat transfer loss through insulation, and condensate loss.

For each of the categories the workshop goes into detail about the equipment and the theory of operation. Several case studies are presented from steam system surveys conducted by the course developer.

The workshop also introduces the major steam opportunity assessment tools developed and utilized by Best Practices Steam. The major text for this workshop is the "Steam System Survey Guide," a technical reference document developed by Best Practices Steam. The workshop also introduces the Steam System Assessment Tool (SSAT), and several of the workshop examples are
presented using the SSAT. Finally, the workshop introduces the 3E-Plus insulation appraisal software and an example is presented that uses the 3E-Plus software.