The Fluid Controls Institute (FCI) recently released Tech Sheet #108: Condensate Line Sizing for Gravity Returns from Steam Traps and Heat Recovery which is available as a free download from the FCI ...

Carbonic acid grooving of a condensate return line. Photo courtesy of ChemTreat, Inc. In Part 1 of this series, we examined methods to produce high-purity water for high-pressure power and ...

Last month, I wrote about refrigeration design engineering being a lost skill. This month, I’m going to discuss another lost engineering skill: steam systems. When I started out at an HVAC consulting ...

While several methods exist for sizing collector pipes on steam lines, the results obtained from the various approaches can be quite different. This article will show how design parameters can be used ...

Liquid analysis is one of the most important measurements in any type of power plant (fossil fuel or nuclear). Generating electricity is a fundamentally inefficient process. The efficiency of current ...

Steam is a marvelous way to transport large amounts of energy effectively and economically. That is why Steam has been the cornerstone of campus, district heating, and process systems for the past two ...