Condensate and Waste Heat Recovery

CHALLENGES

Realizing the financial expectations of your condensate and waste heat recovery system investment:
• Implementing advanced technology level solutions with minimal work force training

• Managing real-time operational situations with a high degree of data certainty: confidence in level indication

• Eliminating potential, hidden maintenance costs associated with a level technologies vulnerabilities to process dynamics and subsequent damage to expensive hardware

• Managing the consumption of natural resources and associated costs to include water, water treatment and discharge, fuel and chemicals.

• Identifying the variables in the “level measurement equation” that contribute to a technologies’ total lifecycle cost

• Translating system performance to optimize boiler performance and utilization

SOLUTION

Leverage generations of Magnetrol experience and expertise to optimize overall system performance using advanced level technologies strategically placed throughout the system

• Improve heat exchanger/condenser performance (energy transfer) by eliminating variables associated with an existing level technologies’ performance on aggressive steam applications

• Better management of flash/receiver and blow down tank capacity to maximize recovery of available energy in condensate in the form of flash steam

• Prevent direct exposure of pumps & pump seals to high temperature steam resulting from poor level control on receiver/flash tanks

• Eliminate avenues for potential level measurement errors and reduce periodic maintenance inspection (PMI) intervals: calibration, external corrections, process dynamics, ambient conditions and hardware complexity

• Better manage condensate inventory to ensure sufficient supply to meet steam generation demands

RESULTS

Meet or exceed the return-on-investment (ROI) expectations in months, not years

• Reduced environmental footprint through improved resource management (water, chemicals & fuel)

• Lower operational costs by better managing controllable losses: optimized waste heat recovery through enhanced heat exchanger/condenser performance

• Extended hardware longevity (pumps & pump seals) by leveraging the inherent advantages of advanced level technologies and low cost, redundant protective measures

• Lower installation, commissioning and lifecycle (periodic maintenance requirements) costs

• Minimize production downtime due to issues associated with more traditional type level controls

Related products

Orion Instruments

Aurora® magnetic level indicator

The Aurora® combines the operating system of a conventional float-based magnetic level indicator (MLI) with the leading-edge Eclipse® guided wave radar transmitter developed for level measurement applications. The result is true level-measurement redundancy in a single-chamber design.

Using a 3" or 4" chamber to house both the Eclipse probe and the MLI float, these devices operate seamlessly to provide continuous electronic guided wave radar measurement and visual indication. There are six basic configuration styles and more than 15 material selections for the Aurora magnetic level indicator.

For the first time ever, the ability to accurately and repeatedly measure ultra low dielectric media, high temperature/high pressure process conditions, and media with shifting and changing dielectric values can be accomplished with Aurora.

Magnetrol

Eclipse® 706 guided wave radar transmitter

The Eclipse^® Model 706 high performance transmitter is a loop-powered, 24 VDC level transmitter that is based upon the proven technology of guided wave radar (GWR). Encompassing a number of significant engineering accomplishments, this leading-edge level transmitter is designed to provide measurement performance well beyond that of many of the more traditional technologies.

Utlilizing "diode switching" technology, along with the most comprehensive probe offering on the market, this single transmitter can be used in a wide variety of applications ranging from very light hydrocarbons to water-based media.

The innovative angled, dual compartment enclosure is now a common sight in the industry. This enclosure, first brought to the industry by Magnetrol^® in 1998, is angled to maximize ease of wiring, configuration, and viewing of the versatile graphic LCD display.

One universal ECLIPSE Model 706 transmitter can be used and interchanged with all probe types, and offers enhanced reliability as it is suitable for use in critical SIL 2/3 Certified safety loops.

The ECLIPSE Model 706 transmitter supports both the FDT/DTM and enhanced DD standards, which allows viewing of valuable configuration and diagnostic information such as the echo curve in tools such as PACTware^™, AMS Device Manager, and various HART® Field Communicators.

Other applications

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