Schutte and Koerting Product Application Selection Chart

Schutte and Koerting manufactures steam jet vacuum systems, steam jet heaters, exhausters and compressors, scrubber systems, desuperheaters, thermo compressors, eductors and syphons, ejectors, and valves.

The following is a handy chart to assist in selecting Schutte and Koerting product according to application. While this chart is helpful to narrow down the right product for the job, it is highly recommended you contact a Schutte and Koerting application expert to confirm your selection meets all technical, performance, and safety requirements.

Application Selection Chart

Process	Applications	Motive Fluid	Products	Technical Info
Move/ pump liquids or solids	Emptying a tank or pit Pumping juices or other edibles in a canning plant Supplying heated water to jackets of stills Pumping waste liquids containing solids Cleaning sludge from tanks and pits Moving spent filter clay Heating and moving slurries Sampling operations Moving dry solids using air	Steam	Jet Syphons Steam Jet Heaters Steam Jet Ejectors	Bulletin 2-A Bulletin 3-A Bulletin 5E-H
		Air/Gas	Jet Syphons Steam Jet Exhausters Solid Handling Eductors	Bulletin 2-A Bulletin 4-E Bulletin 2-SH
		Liquid	Liquid Jet Eductors Water Jet Exhausters Solid Handling Eductors	Bulletin 2-M Bulletin 4-P Bulletin 2-SH-LQ
Move/ pump air or gases	Agitating fermentation tanks and drying drums Priming centrifugal pumps Exhausting air from vacuum pans and evaporators Pressurizing vats Handling corrosive gases Aerating/oxygenating wastewater Circulating or recirculating steam Boosting flash steam from a condensate receiver Compressing waste steam Convey waste gases to flare Exhaust sulfur pits	Steam	Jet Compressors Steam Jet Exhausters Steam Jet Ejectors	Bulletin 4-F Bulletin 4-E Bulletin 5E-H
		Air/Gas	Steam Jet Ejectors Steam Jet Exhausters Jet Compressors	Bulletin 5E-H Bulletin 4-E Bulletin 4-F
		Liquid	Liquid Jet Eductors Water Jet Exhausters Gas Scrubbers	Bulletin 2-M Bulletin 4-P Bulletin 7-S
Produce a vacuum	Filtration, distillation Impregnation, absorption Drying, degassing Dehydrating, evacuating Cooking, evaporating Vacuum transfer, chilling Removing condensate under vacuum Exhausting air from vacuum pans and evaporators Priming centrifugal pumps	Steam	Steam Jet Exhausters Steam Jet Ejectors	Bulletin 4-E Bulletin 5E-H
		Air/Gas	Steam Jet Exhausters Steam Jet Ejectors	Bulletin 4-E Bulletin 5E-H
		Liquid	Liquid Jet Eductors Water Jet Exhausters	Bulletin 2-M Bulletin 4-P
Mix 2 materials	Mixing chemicals in desired proportions Introducing water-treating compound into boiler feedwater Mixing powdered dye with gasoline Blending oils in a tank Scrubbing gases Mixing by-product gases for furnace firing Mixing propane, butane, & natural gas Compressing waste steam to a usable process pressure Circulating steam in dryers	Steam	Steam Jet Heaters Steam Jet Exhausters	Bulletin 3-A Bulletin 4-E
		Air/Gas	Jet Compressors	Bulletin 4-F
		Liquid	Gas Scrubbers Liquid Jet Eductors Water Jet Exhausters	Bulletin 7-S Bulletin 2-M Bulletin 4-P
Heat a liquid	Submerged heating Heating and circulating water Preventing freezing of water in gas holder tanks, cups Cooking grain, mash, or similar mater. Supplying heated water to jackets of stills and graining bowls	Steam	Steam Jet Heaters High Capacity Heaters Jet Syphons	Bulletin 3-A Bulletin 3A-HC Bulletin 2-A
Scrub a gas	Removing SO2, SO3, CI2, SiF4, HCI, NH3, HF, H2S, HNO3, H2SO4, COCI2, HCN, SOCI2, HBr, Br2, F2, formaldehyde, particulates, reduced sulfur compounds, and many other compounds	Liquid	Gas Scrubbers	Bulletin 7-S
Reduce steam temp.	Power plant requirements for desuperheated steam Improve heat transfer of surface-type heat exchangers Reduce and control superheated steam temperatures that harm product Control superheat temperatures at partial loads Maintain balance between process steam and power requirements	Steam	Steam Desuperheaters	Bulletin 6-D

Specializing in Providing Instrumentation and Control Solutions for Industry

Power Specialties provides a wide range of industrial control products, instrumentation, and equipment to a variety of industries including ethanol / biofuel, agricultural and specialty chemical, power, pharmaceutical, manufacturing, and oil and gas production. Products include; flow, level, pressure, temperature, analytical instrumentation, recorders, data acquisition, annunciators, loop controllers, steam jet vacuum systems, process weighing and instrument communications. Visit https://powerspecialties.com.

Schutte & Koerting Steam Jet Vacuum Systems

Steam Jet Ejectors are used in the chemical, petrochemical, pulp and paper, food, power, steel and allied industries in connection with such operations as filtration, distillation and evaporation, absorption, mixing, vacuum packaging, freeze drying, flash cooling, deaerating, dehydrating and degassing to name just a few. They will handle both condensable and non-condensable gases and vapors as well as mixtures of the two. Small amounts of solids or liquids will not adversely affect performance.

The principal feature of the Barometric Condenser is that injection water may be discharged through a tail pipe by gravity, without requiring a pump. The Barometric Condenser is employed in a variety of industries as an economical means of removing air, exhaust steam, and other vapors from vacuum equipment.

The video below provides and overview of the extensive capabilities Schutte & Koerting has in the engineering, design, and fabrication of steam jet vacuum systems.

Contact Power Specialties for Schutte & Koerting inquiries by calling (816) 353-6550 or visit https://www.powerspecialties.com.

Maleic Anhydride Scrubbing Application

S&K Ejector-Venturi Scrubber

Schutte & Koerting, a manufacturer of steam jet vacuum systems, steam jet heaters, exhausters and compressors, scrubber systems, desuperheaters, thermocompressors, eductors, ejectors, and valves, was asked to develop a special Ejector-Venturi Scrubber for a specialty chemical producer.

Background

Ejector Venturi Gas Scrubbers are very effective at removing noxious gases, particulates, odors, fumes and dusts from gas streams. Particulate contaminants are removed through impaction by the high velocity spray of scrubbing liquid. Gases and odors are eliminated through absorption and/or chemical reaction between the gases and scrubbing liquid. When properly matched to the application, these scrubbers, by their nature, are better able to cope with the high temperatures, heavy contaminant loads, and corrosive conditions often encountered.

Maleic Anhydride Scrubbing Challenges

Processes for making one of the raw materials (maleic anhydride) used in resin production generates contaminated off-gases. Maleic Anhydride is absorbed fairly readily in water producing Maleic Acid. However, maleic anhydride transforms directly from gaseous to solid state when cooled and, as a result, can easily plate out on scrubber internal surfaces building up and causing plugging. In order to minimize this “maintenance headache” a special ejector- venturi design is utilized.

Custom Ejector-Venturi Scrubber

The gas inlet and liquid inlet orientations are reversed such that the gas inlet is from the top and the liquid inlet from the side. This allows for the installation of tangential wash sprays just below the gas inlet to wash the walls and keep them wetted. As a result the dry/wet interface is eliminated in the body section where most plugging typically occurs.

Other applications utilizing same special design:

• Removal of chlorinated silanes, which tend to form “sticky” gels during scrubbing
• Removal of elemental sulfur from sulfur holding tank vent exhausts 

Results:  At 50 – 10,000 ACFM gas rates, 90+% removal efficiency ejector-venturi per stage.

For more information on steam jet vacuum systems, steam jet heaters, exhausters and compressors, scrubber systems, desuperheaters, thermocompressors, eductors, or ejectors, contact:

Power Specialties, Inc.

9118 E. 72nd Terrace
Raytown, MO 64133
Toll Free: (800) 432-6550
Phone: (816) 353-6550
Fax: (816) 353-1740

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