Challenge
A large process industry in India faced the following issues across their facilities.
- Each facility has 100 to 500 steam traps distributed across the plant
- Manual testing done on each steam trap once in a few months (best case scenario)
- On an average 10% to 20% of steam traps fail each year
Solution
- As a pilot 50 steam traps were installed with the IoT based monitoring system.
- Since these modules are battery powered each of the installation took less than 15 minutes.
Impact
Reduced Delay In Fixes
Real-time alerts sent to the end users when the system detects a variation from the standard inlet and outlet temperatures of the steam trap.
Cost Savings
- After installation 20,000 litres of boiler make up water saved per month.
- Rs 25,000 saved per month as boiler energy costs