Hi everyone,
The water level in the sight glass of our steam boiler fluctuates a lot, so much that it causes the low-level safety cut-off to trigger several times an hour. Just to be clear: the average level is in the middle of the sight tube, the level isn't actually too low, it's just that as the water oscillates rapidly between high and low it can trigger the cut-off. Obviously this is very frustrating.
I work in a brewery which has been running for many years before I arrived and apparently this problem has always existed. It's a 1,000,000 BTU steam boiler, our kettle holds 25hl when full to the brim (I usually start a boil with 21.5hl in the kettle).
Any suggestions about what is going on and how to fix it?
The water level in the sight glass of our steam boiler fluctuates a lot, so much that it causes the low-level safety cut-off to trigger several times an hour. Just to be clear: the average level is in the middle of the sight tube, the level isn't actually too low, it's just that as the water oscillates rapidly between high and low it can trigger the cut-off. Obviously this is very frustrating.
I work in a brewery which has been running for many years before I arrived and apparently this problem has always existed. It's a 1,000,000 BTU steam boiler, our kettle holds 25hl when full to the brim (I usually start a boil with 21.5hl in the kettle).
Any suggestions about what is going on and how to fix it?
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