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Video on Condensate Power Pumps

09/15/2008 12:21 AM

Hello Gang & Gurus.

Please go to www.Youtube.com , write "Condensate Power Pump" & click search.

Please do let me know how you like the videos.

There is also an interesting latest video on how over 3500 litres/hr condensate is being wasted on roof top via the Receiver's exhaust line due to an Electrical Pump failure.This happened when a Client asked me to carry out an energy audit survey because his Energy Bill shot up.

Will be uploading yet another video from same plant where over 4000 kg/hr steam is being wated by leaking steam traps.

Thanks & Best Regards

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Re: Video on Condensate Power Pumps

09/15/2008 12:49 AM

Hello ducon

Thanks for the invitation, and I place my comments below:

Refer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7b0zG4FBrH0

Comment: Camera movement jerky, gauge cannot be read, voices hard to distinguish above steam roar.

Refer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbla0wMWjOo&feature=related

Comment: Camera movement jerky, picture too dark.

Refer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zw27uDrc6m0&feature=related

Comment: Better photography, what a waste of hot water, crick in neck from camera 90 degree turnaround, could hear birds cawing, but did not see them.

Refer last one on your youtube listing: Looks like a remake of the first, with same problems.

Did you use a cellphone, digital camera on movie mode, or "proper Video camera", to make those?

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Re: Video on Condensate Power Pumps

09/15/2008 1:56 AM

You are 100% right. Used my digital camera when no one was watching. cant photograph inside plants.The reason why i posted it was there was NONE on the subject.Thanks. Will take special permission & video actual with a specialist or try not to jerk too much with my camera.Thanks biddy.

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Re: Video on Condensate Power Pumps

09/17/2008 12:12 AM

This looks like a Sarco-Spirax unit?

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09/17/2008 1:04 AM

Similar but only one in fabricated Sc.80 Seamless dished-top & 25% higher in capacity.

Also made by Sprirax Sarco/Armstrong/TLV/Johnson Corporation/Yarway/Gestra/ITT Domestic/Watson McDaniel/Bestobell/Clark Reliance/ADCA/Spence & Nicholson/Dunham Bush etc.

Virtually everybody uses the same Float Unit Assembly like I do.

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09/15/2008 1:58 AM

biddy??? Sorry no offence BUDDY.

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My Missed Opportunity

09/15/2008 3:12 AM

Hello again, ducon

No offence taken.

Where I grew up in the 1940's and early 1950's, we had a plant with agressively clinging seedheads, called "biddy biddy" - picture at left.

These were a real pest, as they used to hook into socks and clothing, plus sheep fleeces, dog hair, cat fur, cow hair etc.

I was always inventive, yet this weed was commonplace that I missed the practical application of the principle designed into that seedhead.

Another person Swiss engineer, George de Mestral, looked carefully at the similar plant, and decided to make a common useful article from that idea.

Velcro is what he invented, back in 1941.

It just shows how easy it is to lose the opportunity.

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Re: Video on Condensate Power Pumps

09/15/2008 5:58 AM

It's hard to make out much of the actual pump...it looks like a black mass with a yellowy green chilli sticking out of it.

As a video it could do with some love interest..maybe Kiera Knightly would help out on the next installment?

It's difficult to see what I'm looking at...but hey I still liked it.

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Re: Video on Condensate Power Pumps

11/02/2008 6:03 AM

Went out & took a new video . Upload in Youtube. Some improvement I hope. Please comment.

The Float activates with compressed air after 1:25 sec and after 7 secs it deactivates after the 98 C temperature condensate is lifted & returned to the overhead condensate return main. The 2 nos stub that you see on the body are for a gauge glass set(optional). No other moving part inside body (impeller/rotar/shaft) which is hallow hence the flash steam can do any harm nor can cavitate anything.

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Re: Video on Condensate Power Pumps

11/03/2008 6:23 PM

Hello ducon and readers,

For easy location by readers:

ducon's Youtube Videos are here: http://www.youtube.com/user/duconems

The two latest are: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N50Y-_Ew95E

also: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dM7lF1cTGNY

Your Video standards have improved, thank you.

How much savings per month has the client received?

Kind Regards....

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