Condensate Trap 1

[SEP87]

Hello,

I am designing a small 3" Gas control system. The media is wet biogas and the customer has requested a condensate trap situated before the main isolation valve.

Whenever we deal with biogas, we usually use a special filter (after the isolation valve) which includes a sump with a drain tap. However they have asked for a trap upstream of this. My question is; Does anyone know of a specific component that I can use or will an american style sediment trap (T piece configuration) with a tap of some sort be sufficient? I'm in the UK so we don't use a sediment trap as standard as some other countries do. There are plenty of high spec sediment and condensate traps on the market, but they are all a bit overkill for our requirements. They are usually situated directly after the biogas digester and therefore need to be much sturdier (and more expensive) than I require.

I know the question is quite vague, but that's all i've got to work with at the moment. Any advice would be appreciated.

Thanks

 

[BigInch]

Just about anything that works will work. Could be just a connection to another piece of pipe with end caps forming the trap. Set the trap pipe below your mainline. Install a valve on the trap pipe to drain any condensate that accumulates.

What would you be doing, if you knew that you could not fail? Ans. Bonds and derivative brokering.

 

[SEP87]

Thank you, i assumed a simple bit of pipe with an end cap would do the trick, just checking i hadn't missed anything obvious.

Thanks