Document Name: 0101r096

Section: TAPPI PRESS

Title: Paper Machine Steam and Condensate

Systems

TAPPI PRESS
Paper Machine Steam and Condensate Systems
4th Edition, edited by Robert D. Perrault

1990. 40 pp., 8-1/2" x 11" soft cover

Item Number: 0101R096

ISBN: 0898525047

This book gives papermakers and those responsible for solving drying-related problems a basic
understanding of the design, operation, and control of paper machine steam and condensate
removal systems.

Table of Contents:

Foreword 2.2 Thermocompressor pressure control

Contributors
Introduction
1 Steam Control and Condensate Evacuation
Systems Design
1.0 General
1.1 Basic steam pressure control system
1.2 Multiple pressure control sections
1.3 Automatic differential pressure control
1.4 Dryer temperature control using a vacuum
system
1.5 Pressure and temperature control for each
dryer section
1.6 Simple three-section cascade dryer
section
1.7 Positive pressure control loops for wet end
dryers
1.8 Low pressure wet end dryer
1.9 Temperature control of wet end dryers
1.10 After size drying control
1.11 Single felted dryer section
2 Thermocompressors (THC)
2.0 General
2.0.1 Construction and operation
2.0.2 Advantages and disadvantages of
thermocompressor systems
2.0.3 Performance
Thermocompressor Systems
2.1 Thermocompressor pressure control
system
system with differential control valve
2.3 Dryer differential control using the
thermocompressor spindle
2.4 Thermocompressor cascade system
2.5 Yankee dryers
3 Blow Through (Flow) Control for Dryer
Drainage Systems
3.0 General
3.1 Blow through control principles
3.2 Blow through control installation
3.3 Yankee or single dryer blow through
control system
4 Mechanical Vapor recompression (MVR)
4.0 General
4.1 Advantages
5 Dryer Drainage System Controls and
Equipment
5.0 General
5.1 Pressure control
5.2 Differential pressure control
5.2.1 Transmitter installation
5.3 Separator control
5.4 Vacuum system
5.4.1 Vacuum pump
5.4.2 condenser (heat exchanger)
5.5 Effect of air in steam
5.5.1 Noncondensable bleeds
5.6 Syphons for paper machine dryers
5.7 Effect of centrifugal force
5.8 Drive horsepower and dryer condensate
load

6 Troubleshooting, Check-out, Start-up, and

Shutdown of Dryer Drainage Systems
6.0 Equipment Check-out
6.1 General installation
6.2 Control valves
6.3 Separators
6.4 Condensate pumps and motors
6.5 Vacuum pump
6.6 Heat exchanger (HE)
6.7 Thermocompressor (THC)
6.8 Steamfit and piping
6.9 Controllers
6.10 Systems checkout - flushing new systems
and rebuilds
6.11 Shutdown procedures
6.11.1 Cold shutdown
6.11.2 Warm shutdown
6.12 Sheet breaks
6.12.1 Long breaks
6.12.2 Short breaks
6.13 Operating problems and trouble shooting
6.13.1 Low differential pressure
6.13.2 High differential pressure
6.13.3 High drive torque
6.13.4 High separator level
6.13.5 Very low separator level
6.13.6 High steam pressure
6.13.7 Low steam pressure
6.13.8 High steam usage per pound of
water evaporated
6.13.9 Loss in production rates