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The Clinic — Troubleshooting & Reliability
Diagnosis-first: start from the symptom on the plant floor, reason back to the physics, then fix the cause — trap failures, surveys, stall, pumping and the ways steam systems eat themselves.
- G1Why steam traps fail300°10 minSteam locking, air binding, double trapping and stolen differential — the four impostors that condemn healthy traps.
- G2Trap surveys and trap management300°10 minFinding the 15–25% of traps that have failed, pricing them honestly, and the register-and-route discipline that keeps them found.
- G3Stall and condensate pumping300°10 minReading the stall chart like a clinician, the NPSH arithmetic that rattles electric pumps, and the pressure-powered pump that ends it.
- G4Erosion and corrosion in steam systems300°9 minPipe forensics: carbonic acid, oxygen pits, flashing erosion and wiredrawing — read the failure, find the upstream cure.