Spirax Marshall has varied products on steam and condensate lines for application in Refinery and Petrochemical Industry. They comprise of High Pressure Steam Traps (TD 62 and TD 120), High Pressure Safety Valves on steam lines, High Pressure Boiler Blowdown Control System (MBS and HBS), Steam and Condensate Manifolds, Automatic Pumping Traps (APT), Steam Tracing Traps (MST and BPTs)

Steam Condensate Manifolds

Steam Tracing is used principally to maintain a reasonable product temperature and viscosity in order to simplify pumping and avoid freezing, solidification or stagnation. Although the condensate flowrates are relatively small, trap populations will be high, as all tracer lines should be individually trapped. For ease of design and layout, the steam to tracers is distributed through a manifold and condensate from the traps is collected in a manifold for further distribution.
Traditionally these manifolds are custom designed to an appropriate piping code, then fabricated and tested on site. The number of individual components needed to construct these manifolds is large and the labour needed to procure, weld test and inspect them is expensive. These manifolds are large, heavy and a complex piece of the tracing system. After construction, insulation can be awkward because of their widely differing geometry.

The modern method of manifolding is to purchase the manifold as a standard piece of equipment just like buying a steam trap. The convenience of this type of manifold with its optional insulation jacket and mounting kit is available from Spirax Marshall.

Typical Application for non-critical tracing.

Steam is distributed through one manifold to the tracer line attached to the product line. At the end of the tracer line the steam trap discharges the condensate into another manifold and is returned to the condensate into another manifold and is returned to the condensate main.

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