High-pressure steam boilers were blowing up all across the land and a big reason for that had to do with the relief valves of the time. In 1905, a boiler in a Boston shoe factory blew up, traveled a ...

The ASME Code requires that sufficient relief valve capacity be provided to prevent the pressure inside the deaerator and storage tank from rising more than 10% or 3 psi, whichever is greater, above ...

In steam boiler applications, pressure relief valves (PRVs) are the silent sentinels – the last line of defense against potentially disastrous overpressure situations.