What is Condensate Recovery?
If 1 t/h of steam is supplied to equipment for a heating process, then the same amount of condensate (1 t/h) needs to be discharged from the equipment. Condensate recovery is a process to reuse the
water and sensible heat contained in the discharged condensate. Recovering condensate instead of throwing it away can lead to significant savings of energy, chemical treatment and make-up water.
Throwing it away can lead to significant savings of energy, chemical treatment and make-up water
Condensate can be reused in many different ways, for example,
As heated feed water, by sending hot condensate back to the boiler's deaerator
As per-heat, for any applicable heating system
As steam, by reusing flash steam
As water, for cleaning equipment or other cleaning applications