Replace Pressure-Reducing Valves with Backpressure Turbogenerators: Office of Industrial Technologies (OIT) Steam Tip Fact Sheet No. 20

Program Document · Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 2002

OSTI ID:15000091

Many industrial facilities produce steam at a higher pressure than is demanded by process requirements. Steam passes through pressure-reducing valves (PRVs, also known as letdown valves) at various locations in the steam distribution system to let down or reduce its pressure. A non-condensing or backpressure steam turbine can perform the same pressure-reducing function as a PRV, while converting steam energy into electrical energy.

• Research Organization: National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: US Department of Energy (US)
• DOE Contract Number: AC36-99GO10337
• OSTI ID: 15000091
• Report Number(s): DOE/GO-102002-1476; TRN: US200325%%39
• Resource Relation: Other Information: PBD: 1 Jan 2002
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

32 ENERGY CONSERVATION, CONSUMPTION, AND UTILIZATION
PRESSURE REGULATORS
DEPRESSURIZATION
STEAM
STEAM TURBINES
TURBOGENERATORS
VALVES
RETROFITTING
INDUSTRIAL PLANTS
ON-SITE POWER GENERATION
OFFICE OF INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGIES
BESTPRACTICES
EFFICIENCY
ENERGY
PRESSURE-REDUCING VALVES
BACKPRESSURE TURBINE
INDUSTRY