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Boiler Water.pdf - The Jamaican Sugar Industry

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Condensate<br />

• Condensate from the evaporators, pans and turbines supply in excess<br />

of 150% of the boiler feed water<br />

• Condensate can be contaminated with sugar<br />

• <strong>Sugar</strong> contamination<br />

– Drops the pH to acid levels under pressure.<br />

– Low pH feed water corrodes the tubes.<br />

– Corroded iron is laid down as scale on the tubes.<br />

– <strong>Sugar</strong> can caramelize and be laid down as carbon scale on the<br />

tubes<br />

Confidential and proprietary to Garratt-Callahan Company

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