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thanks for the suggestions. i need to mull things over in my head before i can come up with new questions. hope thats fine. :)

Hi, i know this might be a bit of deja-vu, but i was thinking about the amount of steam being released into the sky and i was wondering about how to condense most of the steam so that wastage is reduced drastically and after seperating the oil , the water may be reused. The basic purpose is to stop draining the water table and feed the water back into the boiler. I did come up with a very rudimentary idea. " Use a 12ft. high cylindrical chamber and let the steam be fed from the bottom. Have a series of pipes running inside the chamber like a radiator and feed water in it using a pump. this water can be gotten out at the top and fed into a kinda reservoir by sprinkling it through a shower-type nozzle. this will help cool the water as it falls into the reservoir . " the problem with this idea is that the water in the pipes is soon to reach temperatures as high as the steam and there is no way to cool it down to maybe cold temperatures. We DO have a heat exchanger which is being used to preheat the water in the boiler but it doesnt condense all the steam. This is the prequel to the oil/water mix problem actually. once we can do this, the oil can be looked into. i have sent queries to a few companies for skimmers and even spoke to CIagent as suggested by you all in the previous thread, however, one restriction is that the oil content in the water is about 0.1%. Low, i know but till 100% is removed, the water cannot be used. still awaiting their opinion.

ptree, i agree with u. it IS a prob. but as of now, trying to work out between the systems adviced above is what we are trying to do. hopefully we can get a system which can help out a lot.

Well, converting to a compressed air setup is gonna be big bucks. the hammer itself isnt the prob. We are actually wanting to do some good by re condensing the steam in a resorvior so that we can then remove the oil from it to reuse the water. hence the thread. I am now trying to find a brand other than CIAgent as i am unable to get a response from them. the coagulent is the perfect solution, but finding one such is tough.

hey guys, sry for the late response, but i had a few family celebrations. Apprenticeman, ure more than welcome. i really appreciate all the help im getting here. i do have a few other things i wanted advice on, will be posting them seperately. Ptree, i will get back to you about the laws. advice is always good from people whi have experience. fionnbharr, i am not sure what tooling you have in mind which can be used here. ironrosefarm, thanks a lot. my pic was a bit dark and tooo huge but i dotn really use photoshop or anything so i couldnt do anything bout it. appreciate it a lot. john, we do actually use the steam to preheat the water for our boiler to conserve fuel and save money. however the sheer amount of steam being put out needs to be let out somewhere, hence the entire mixing problem.Also, we dotn use contaminated steam as it would mess up the boiler pretty bad. we wanna try and condense it as much as possible to reduce environmental impact and also try and save the water table. if we can condense it all back then the water being pumped out will be reduced to a minimum instead of the whole amount every single day. thomas, no prob. my pleasure. lol, hammer envy CAN drive people mad i suppose. however, im still a trainee in the business so i suppose i am safe for now. :P

the pic of the hammer is below.

ptree, i am in India.

hey all. Thanks a lot. i'll forward your responses to my engineering department and see what they ask me to ask you again. Thanks a lot. ApprenticeMan, I will try to post the pics for you to see in the same thread.

I have a 3 Ton Steam operated free forging hammer. My problem is that the exhaust steam comes out mixed with condensate and cylinder oil and this outlet is connected to a tank in which they collect. I need to separate this mix as soon as possible. This total mixture is at very high temperatures as the steam coming out is saturated steam and we need to separate it out continuously to drain the water in the drainage. Obviously, oil mixed with water cannot be let out in the drainage. Any ideas how i am to go about it?