What is a loader in arborescent pipe networks?
In order to keep the mechanical expenditures and the initial costs within a limit, engineers often try to lead as much as possible different condensate lines on a common collector. This has the disadvantage that these lines affect each other mutually negatively because of their different pressures. Usually these collectors are therefore designed as open systems, i.e. the positive pressures are diminished over a vapours pipe leading to the atmosphere. Steam flags and environmental pollutions are the results, whereby in particular also the partial substantial losses of energy have to be considered. For reasonable planning an uncoupling of the system should be done, i.e. lines of same pressures are led on smaller delivery units, which deliver the condensate then from closed collectors delay-free to master stations or to ring systems. We than call these smaller units loader, as they supply the condensate from intermediate collecting tanks or single consumers to the main stations. Since thi
