Complete Steam Loss Project

To meet the needs of our clients, notably the chemical, petrochemical, pharmaceutical, refineries, oil & gas sector, The Sniffers nv/sa has developed a Total Steam Loss Management Program adjusted to the need of our clients to reduce energy costs.

A Steam Loss project is typically conducted in six phases:

Step 1: Preparation of a Steam Loss project
- Information exchange meeting
- Project introduction
- Project scooping
- Coding & naming conventions.
- Prepare technical information. (drawings, technical information steam traps)
- Database set-up

Step 2: Database preparation:
- Build site structure (site - unit - sections - drawings)
- Prepare Basic data
- Prepare Customer data

Step 3: Source inventory:
- Project kick-off meeting
- Safety training
- Site visit
- Define monitoring routes
- Start inventory program
- Import all gathered information into database
- Prepare monitoring phase

Step 4: Unit monitoring phase
- Prepare detection device and gather relevant information
- Start monitoring program
- Regular status meetings
- Import all measurement data into steam database.
- Database update
Step 5: Reporting
- Consolidate all gathered data
- Prepare lessons learned
- Create Steam loss report
Detail list of all leaking steam traps
Repair orders
Graphical overview of losses in kg/yr
Detailed list with the status of all steam traps
Top 5 off leaking steam traps (in costs and losses)
Comparing different types, and mark’s of steam traps.
- Create project presentation (MS-PowerPoint)

Step 6: Project closing
- Hand-over of Steam management report
- Present project presentation
- Discuss project continuation plan
- Finding solutions for reducing steam losses and improving of the steam process.

Based on the output of the reporting information, a repair program can be planned. The achieved savings of raw materials can be huge and many times bigger than the total Steam loss project costs (we have already found leaks which have an individual steam trap loss of more than 200 tons/year.
These additional options can deliver huge synergies while different tasks can be performed in one go.

Please send us attached information request if you want to receive more information on our services and/or used equipment.
If you want to receive a standard offer you can send us attached request for proposal

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