I’d like to understand why high purity waters apparently cause high corrosion rates of carbon steel at room temperatures. Is the higher corrosion rate really due to their low ion content, & therefore higher dissolution driving force (ie hungry water explanation)? Is the rate for pure water...
In ASME Section VIII (one of ) the criteria that determines is a vessel is covered in the code is if the “operating pressure” is 15 psig or higher. There are some cases where the codes definition of “operating pressure” is not clear to me. Maybe best using a hypothetical: Let’s presume...
We had an application which used steam generated from a "clean steam" generator for humidification. The steam generator used DI water as feed. After a relatively short (?)period of time, the galvanizing on the ductwork downstream of the humidifier was almost gone. There had been...
