Many buildings, particularly modern buildings, work with both steam and hot-water heating systems. In this excerpt from his Dead Men’s Steam School seminar, Dan Holohan g...
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Steam-to-Water Heat Exchangers
What’s The Right Heat Exchanger Pressure?
A few years ago, an engineer who works with older New York City buildings started to email me with good questions, mostly about steam heating. I’ve enjoyed hearing from h...
Solving a Steam-to-Water Heat-Exchanger Problem
I once visited an engineer who worked for the City of New York. He worked at a pitted drafting table in a green room that occupied about an acre of New York City real est...