Behind the Lines of Temperature Wars
A report examining the most common thermal complaints made by office workers and the variety of ways facility professionals respond to them is available for free download. ...
Networked Thermostats Help Church Realize Significant Energy Savings
Located in Cary, N.C., Colonial Baptist Church consists of five multipurpose buildings (Figure 1) that employed a combination of standard and programmable...
Hospital Expecting 25% Fuel Savings With Direct-Contact Heat Recovery
With construction of a new hospital in Hopewell Township, N.J., under way, Capital Health is planning to move its Regional Perinatal Center (RPC) from...
VRFZ System Meets Hospice's Need for Simultaneous Cooling, Heating
Owned and operated by Share Foundation, a not-for-profit public charity, Life Touch Hospice in El Dorado, Ark., opened its 16-bed John R. Williamson Hospice...
Tax Incentives for Geothermal
With the current national emphasis on renewable-energy systems, we find ourselves on the brink of great opportunity, yet frustrated by the constraints...
WaterFurnace Names New President, CEO
WaterFurnace International Inc., a manufacturer of residential, commercial, industrial, and institutional geothermal and water-source heat pumps, has named Tom Huntington as president and chief executive officer. ...
Flowmeters Help University Recover Over $1.25 Million in Annual Billings
On Virginia Commonwealth University's campus in downtown Richmond, Va., the steam plant consists of three identical boilers, each capable of generating...
Cleaver-Brooks Establishes Facility in China
Cleaver-Brooks, a North American manufacturer of boilers and boiler-room equipment, announced the opening of an assembly facility in Shenzhen, China....
Hydronic and Solar Equipment Aid Quest for Energy Independence
Portsmouth Abbey School is home to Rhode Island's first and largest utility-scale wind turbine....
Codes & Standards - April 2009
ASHRAE The American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) recently announced the publication of ANSI/ASHRAE Standard...
Analyst: Worst Is yet to Come for Economy
The U.S. economy is going to get worse before it gets better, an economic analyst told a room full of boiler-industry professionals Jan. 17 during the American Boiler Manufacturers Association's 2009 Annual Meeting in Weston, Fla. ...
New Las Vegas Casino Plays It Safe in Constructing Central Boiler Plant
Unilux, Schebler, and Energy Products of Nevada worked closely with the project engineers and owners during design of Echelon, a casino and resort complex on the Las Vegas Strip....
Low-NOx Boilers Deliver Reliability, Redundancy Required by University
When Steven Bowman arrived at Tarleton State University in Stephenville, Texas, as director of energy and utilities operations, one of the biggest challenges awaiting him was expansion of the growing university's HVAC system...
Boilermakers Bracing for Decline in Orders
With the United States and much of the world mired in a recession, it is no surprise that many industrial- and commercial/institutional-boiler manufacturers are expecting tough times in 2009. How tough is anyone's guess. ...
Boilers in the Electronic Age
During the early 1980s, America was enjoying video-cassette recorders and cable television and marveling at the invention of cellular telephones and personal...
NEW PRODUCTS
Hot-water pumps Series RWA high-temperature air-cooled pumps are designed for use with hot water, ethylene glycol, and propylene glycol. Eight pump sizes...
Infrared Heaters Warming Students and Teachers, Cutting Energy Costs
Located in southeastern Colorado, at an elevation of 7,600 ft, Moffat School is no stranger to extreme winter weather. It was 50 below for 60 straight...
Boiler Retrofit vs. Replacement
The approximately 400,000 industrial and commercial boilers in the United States consume about 33 quadrillion Btu about 25 percent of the world's energy...
Industrial-Boiler Replacement
A large industrial boiler can operate successfully for 25 years or more. However, the decrease in a boiler's performance and associated gradual increase...
The Economics of Lower Emissions
There is a worldwide movement to reduce carbon-dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse-gas emissions. While the United States has focused mostly on nitrogen...
Cost-Effective Electric Boilers
The United States has achieved a new level of consciousness regarding the environmental impact of the boilers we manufacture, specify, purchase, install,...
Invisible History
How hard could it be to replace an old steam heating system? When I saw the inside of the elegant rococo theater, I understood. Unfortunately, the radiators...
University Controlling Energy Costs With Direct-Contact Heat Recovery
The Richard J. Renaud Science Complex on the campus of Concordia University in Montreal is a 345,000-sq-ft, L-shaped structure consisting of a salvaged...
Applied Rooftop Heating Systems
Applied rooftop heating systems offer many performance and cost benefits, including configuration flexibility, energy efficiency, and wide operating ranges, for owners and design engineers. The availability of fully modulating gas heating systems with high turndown ratios helps maintain comfort conditions. ...
Automaker Trades Three-Pass Boilers for Modulating Units, Saves Thousands
At Mitsubishi Motors Corp.'s manufacturing plant in Normal, Ill., two large, 20-year-old, 300-hp, three-pass boilers had met their match, unable to perform...
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