Industry surveys routinely find that a quarter or more of mechanical steam traps in service have failed — most of them leaking live steam. Move the sliders to see what that means in tonnes of steam, dollars and CO₂ for your plant.
Real projects often do better than this estimate: replacing only the worst leaking traps typically cuts 20–70% of steam loss on those lines (a mega refining-chemical complex in East China measured 20–70% per replaced unit). The calculator assumes money is only saved on steam — it excludes fewer trap replacements, less maintenance downtime, and improved heat transfer.
Get an exact project quotekg/h steam leaked by one failed DN25 medium-pressure trap (site measurement)
steam saving after replacement, measured by third-party inspection at a Yangtze River Delta petrochemical complex
steam consumption per tonne of product at a polyurethane chemical plant after replacing an imported trap
payback range achieved across documented SteamEco retrofit projects
A well-known Jiangsu chemical plant ran 328 mechanical traps; field testing found 156 of them leaking, together wasting 7,500 t of steam per year. Replacing them with SteamEco venturi traps saves about USD 290,000 per year at a steam price of USD 40/t — with a payback inside 12 months, and no further trap-replacement cycle every two years.