Steam Traps
F&T in traps stands for this.
What is Float and Thermostatic?
This type of boiler has the gasses of combustion surrounding the tubes and the water is inside them.
What is a water tube boiler?
Steam piping in the ceiling of an office keeps making banging sounds in the morning.
What is water hammer from improperly pitched pipes?
Steam Piping must have this to avoid trapping water.
What is pipe pitch?
The pressure is relieved when this device senses it is too high.
What is a relief valve?
This type of trap is most COMMONLY used with high-pressure steam.
What is a Bucket Trap?
This type of boiler has the gasses of combustion inside its tubes and the water is around them.
What is a fire tube boiler?
The boiler keeps tripping out on a low-water cutoff.
What is a bad boiler feed water pump?
These must be installed prior to any steam trap to help prevent damaging it.
What is a strainer?
Turns the boiler off in a low water condition.
What is a low-water cutoff?
This type of trap would most commonly be used with low-pressure steam.
What is a Float & Thermostatic Trap?
A steam producing boiler with a working pressure greater than 15 psi.
What is a high-pressure steam boiler?
A condensate pump has steam blowing out of its vent on the side of the building.
What is a malfunctioning steam trap?
This type of reducer is most often used with steam piping.
What is an eccentric reducer?
This often leads to unsafe operating conditions with boilers.
What is a lack of maintenance?
This type of trap would be used with steam with a MAWP of 600 psi.
What is a Thermodynamic Trap?
Often referred to wrongly as boilers, these items use air as their heat transfer medium.
What are furnaces?
A low-pressure steam main is fed by a high-pressure system. The low pressure main is at 25 psi.
What is the spence valve is allowing too much pressure by?
When dropping down to pipe a steam trap off a main, this must extend below the tee the trap comes off.
What is a dirt leg?
This device shuts down the boiler if it senses too much pressure.
What is a pressuretrol?
This type of trap is commonly used with a radiator.
What is a Thermostatic Trap?
This type of boiler may be built in place.
What is a sectional or "Pork Chop" boiler?
The floor drains in a mechanical room with steam boilers keep melting in the room below it, pouring water into the ceiling of that room.
What is the condensate is not being cooled before being put to drain?
When piping high-pressure steam, these types of pipe and fittings should be used.
What are Schedule 80 pipe and AAR fittings?
When cold water is introduced to a working steam boiler this may occur.
What is boiler shock?