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Proper employment of guided wave radar in steam loops Keith Riley – Level Product Business Manager Ravi Jethra - Industry Manager, Power Energy Executive Summary This paper will address the application of Guided Wave Radar (GWR), also known as Time Domain Reflectometry (TDR), in your steam loop. Included will be discussions of how this technology functions and differs from more traditional forms of level indication. About the Authors Keith Riley has been a Product Business Manager with Endress+Hauser since April 2008. Prior to this, he has been a Product Manager and Regional Sales Manager with L.J. Star Incorporated as well as a Product Manager for Penberthy (Tyco Valves). Overall, he has over 15 years of sales, marketing and application experience in the process industry. Ravi Jethra is the Power and Energy Industry Manager at Endress+Hauser. He holds a degree in Instrumentation Engineering from Bombay University and an MBA from Arizona State University. Ravi has over two decades of experience in process automation linked to Energy systems worldwide. He is based in Maryland and likes to read, hike and cook Indian food during his spare time. Excerpts taken from: Proceedings of the ASME 2011 POWER Conference July 12-14, 2011, Denver, Colorado USA CP01201F/24/EN/13.12 US/INDD CS INTRODUCTION The heart and soul of any boiler based power generation system is Level indication in the steam loop is critical, yet the methods the steam loop or circuit. Without the proper availability of water employed to measure it have been slow to evolve or change. Some in this system, efficiency suffers. In more extreme circumstances of that has been due to code requirements (PG-60 of the ASME damage to other components from either too much water Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code) or a simple lack of confidence (carryover) or too little water (low water condition) will occur and