Steam and Condensate Management

Steam and Condensate Management

For Colleges, Universities and Higher Education Campuses

Armstrong's proven trap management program is engineered to lower trap failure rates and help you reduce or avoid energy costs.

Our specialists will work with you to implement a custom trap management program that is modeled after our empirical success with Notre Dame, WMU, U of M, MSU, and other leading educational institutions.

Award-winning Steam Trap Management Program

Achievements include reductions in steam usage and water hammer, and increased cost savings, heat transfer efficiency and comfort for students and staff. Modeling this success, 37 universities have implemented this program.

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Expert steam piping, complete with steam traps, control valves, condensate removal equipment, monitoring, and more.

More than a century of in-depth knowledge and experience enables us to manage your steam and condensate requirements better than anyone in the world. Our solutions are all engineered to consistently deliver superior accuracy and reliability as well as best-in-class quality, longevity and value—for more effective steam and condensate management.

SAGE UMT® Wireless, Handheld Trap Tester

SAGE UMT® Wireless, Handheld Trap Tester

Testing steam traps is as simple as pressing a button with SAGE UMT®. Armstrong's state-of-the-art, automatic trap testing device eliminates user error and raises the quality of trap testing to a new level. With SAGE UMT®, any steam trap technician can survey traps quickly, easily and accurately on a regular basis, while information syncs seamlessly to SAGE®.

SAGE UMT® is a Fundamental Tool in Your Complete Trap Management Program.

  • Detects traps in good, cold and blow-through condition
  • Piezoelectric acoustic sensor, developed and tuned specifically for the unique conditions found in steam traps
  • Non-contact infrared temperature sensor
  • RFID technology significantly reduces the time required to locate and identify traps
  • SAGE UMT® works seamlessly with SAGE® Mobile and SAGE® Smart Utility System Management platform
  • SAGE® immediately uploads data to the cloud where it's protected by high-level security and automated backups
  • Customers own their own data

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Effective Steam Trapping

Armstrong steam traps are designed for energy efficiency, minimal steam loss, corrosion resistance and long, dependable service. We offer a complete range of steam traps including: inverted bucket steam traps, bimetallic super heat steam traps, clean steam thermostatic steam traps, disc steam traps, dual orifice steam traps, float and thermostatic steam traps, radiator traps, trap valve stations and more.

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Condensate Management

Armstrong offers a full range of condensate recovery and management products and solutions, including pumps. We can help you reduce costs for: fuel and energy, boiler water makeup and sewage treatment, and boiler water chemical treatment.

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Wireless Steam System Monitoring

Armstrong offers superior, groundbreaking solutions that provide real-time monitoring of your critical steam trap population. You receive instantaneous notifications of any problems, enabling you to repair or replace failed traps before they create serious steam quality issues.

Both SteamEye® and AIM® can communicate with SAGE®, allowing the user to continuously monitor critical traps and survey the entire trap population, all in the same database.

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Wireless Steam System Monitoring

Wireless Steam System Monitoring

AIM® (Armstrong Intelligent Monitoring

AIM® is a wireless monitoring technology built on the WirelessHART and ISA-100 communications protocols, which continuously monitors and evaluates the operating condition of steam traps and other critical equipment in your system. AIM® provides instantaneous notification in the event of steam trap or critical equipment failure.

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SteamEye®

SteamEye® uses a proprietary wireless transmitter mounted at the inlet of any type of steam trap to detect temperature and ultrasonic fluctuations in steam flow. In the event of steam trap failure, a signal is sent to a central receiver, alerting system operators that maintenance is required.

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SAGE® Smart Utility System Management

SAGE® keeps you fully informed, 24 hours a day with regular updates, precise documentation, custom-filtered reports, and real-time alerts notifying you of any problems. SAGE® work seamlessly with our real-time monitoring products (SteamEye®, AIM®, and The Brain®), ensuring that it always has access to the most current data.

SAGE® works harder to make your life easier.

  • Survey steam traps quickly and accurately with SAGE UMT® and SAGE® Mobile
  • Maximize your equipment's reliability, efficiency and safety
  • Customizable user experience
  • Accessible on tablets, laptops and PCs
  • Real-time dashboard monitoring
  • Multi-location views
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Pressure Reducing Valves (PRVs)

Pressure Reducing Valves (PRVs)

Armstrong can help you manage your steam, air and liquid systems safely and efficiently with pressure reducing valves (PRVs) and temperature regulators to maintain constant pressure or temperature for process control, for uninterrupted productivity.

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Pressure Reducing Valves (PRVs)

Control Valves

Fully utilize your system and provide safe accurate control for your application.

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Case Studies

Award-winning Steam Trap Management Program

Achievements include reductions in steam usage and water hammer, and increased cost savings, heat transfer efficiency and comfort for students and staff. Modeling this success, 37 universities have implemented this program.

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Reducing Power Plant Steam Costs

Helping a famous university lower power plant steam costs by 21% within two years.

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Managing and Maintaining Steam Trap Population

Complete oversight of the steam trap population in all the academic buildings on campus, resulting in lower steam consumption and significantly lower fuel costs.

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Achieving Energy Management Goals

Steam trap management program enables university to improve efficiency and reduce costs and carbon emissions.

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Recommendations from Armstrong University

Higher Education Package

Included are 15 online courses to help you increase student safety and comfort, improve accuracy in metering and submetering, and uphold your commitment to carbon neutrality.

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Safety Training 101 Package

This package of 21 courses addresses environmental health and safety issues to help you provide a safe working environment. Each course can typically be completed in 30 minutes or less.

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Complete Course Listing for Higher Education

Armstrong University Online offers a wide variety of courses designed to address issues faced by your industry each day.

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