Steam heating has been around a long time. It’s a tried-and-true way to heat a number of different applications because it’s such a wonderful medium for heat transfer. In addition, it is usually easy ...

If engineered well and drained properly, a simple finned-tube heat exchanger can help maximize a fossil-fueled power plant’s combustion efficiency, capacity, and air pollution reduction. Use the ...

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 ...

Could tiny threads of carbon fiber do the same job as big metal industrial heating coils? A new breakthrough from researchers at Rice University says yes, and the finding could go a long way toward ...

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Work coils, also referred to as the inductor, are a part in an induction heating system. Their purpose is to indicate whether a work piece has been heated effectively and efficiently. There are ...