The advent of the Industrial revolution caused the invention of steam traps. During the age of machinery and locomotives, it is necessary to have a certain system that can produce heat energy source-many types of equipment during that era are powered by heat energy. Back then, the condensate is manually removed. This can be time-consuming, ineffective and makes the system prone to leakage resulting to reduction of energy source.

Steam is a good source of energy. Water sources are abundant and inexpensive. Other energy sources like fossil fuels can totally deplete in the future, and it takes millions of years before they can be replaced. As a result, the increase in demand leads to the increase of fossil fuel prices. Aside from that, steam does not cause negative effects to the environment. It does not contain any harmful chemicals that are deemed hazardous to the biosphere.

Its energy efficiency, among its other advantages, has become popular among many industries. As a result, steam and steam traps are used in several kinds of applications. Initially, steam is used to increase the temperature of certain kinds of equipment-the steam goes to the inlet, increases temperature. While the condensate is led to a different outlet, the high temperature steam product goes to a different inlet to be used as energy source.

The energy source coming from the steam makes steam turbines work. The steam turbine is part of a system that produces thermal and electrical energy source to some industrial machinery. To prevent turbines from being damaged, the steam is heated to a certain degree where condensates cannot penetrate the equipment in any way. The steam must be very well heated to make this possible. However, this type of process is not applicable to all plants. There are others who avoid heating the steam too much so as not to damage the steam turbine.

In some applications, the steam produced in steam traps are used as a moving force to certain gases and liquids. High-pressure steam is used to push the other lower-pressured air products. Steam is also used as a source of moisture in other plants-there are certain materials that can be produced if there is presence of moisture. Others use steam energy to humidify the air-in places where cold climates are experienced, steam energy is used to produce warmer air.

Until today, steam traps are very essential in large industries. They are still used as a generator of non-renewable energy sources such as steam and heat energy. Although there are already other energy sources discovered today, the energy coming from the steam is still considered essential.