Steam Boilers for Breweries
Here are some excerpts from my new book, Lessons Learned: Brewing with Steam. I wrote it to help you design, install, and maintain steam systems used in the craft brewing...
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Archive for 2016
A Dedication to “The Lost Art of Steam Heating”
I was never an A student in high school or in college. It was my math and science classes that helped me graduate with a decent GPA. It was just something about problem s...
E.N. McDonnell Speaks Up for Steam Heat
This is a speech that E. N. McDonnell, founder of McDonnell & Miller, made on May 29, 1940 to the Heating & Piping Contractors National Association in defense of steam he...
Radiator Paint Colors
Ever wonder why so many of the old radiators you see are painted silver? Back in the day, they were mostly plain grey metal, but then the Spanish Influenza arrived during...
Pumping Away Piping
This is an excerpt from Dan Holohan’s book Pumping Away and other really cool piping options for hydronic systems. Since you've read this far, I figure you must be pretty...
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I was having dinner in Canada with some friends and we got to that point in the meal where the waitress asked about salad dressing. "What do you have?" one of the guys as...
Water Quality with High-Efficiency Boilers
The majority of the hydronic boilers we install today are low-mass, modulating condensing boilers. Sure, we still install a few atmospheric cast iron boilers on occasion,...
A Practical Manual of Steam and Hot-Water Heating (1911)
A Practical Manual of Steam and Hot-Water Heating was written by Edward Richmond Pierce in 1911. This will give you a glimpse into what heating was like during that time ...
Steam-Boiler Water Feeder Patent (1879)
William C. Wolfe's circa-1879 patent for a water feeder shows an invention that is remarkable simple and fully automatic. It's probably one of the earliest feeders to app...
SelecTemp Modulating Zone Heating
Turbonics offered this unusual steam system, which Iron Fireman had come up with years before. It was called SelecTemp and offered self-modulating zone heating. Thanks to...