SlideLOK features a patent-pending coupling and pressure-responsive gasket with four separate sealing contacts that engage the groove 360 degrees around the pipe.
Version 4 of the Bell & Gossett System Syzer® program for PC computers is available. It is an update of a tool for calculating flow rates and pressure drops in HVAC piping systems. The program provides a more comprehensive, user-friendly, and web-based selection tool for engineers, consultants, and designers.
The North American Insulation Manufacturers Association (NAIMA) has launched a new version of its 3E Plus® insulation thickness software program that performs a wide range of energy, economic, and environmental calculations to help determine cost savings through increased insulation thicknesses.
Version 4 of the Bell & Gossett System Syzer® program for PC computers is available. It is an update of a tool for calculating flow rates and pressure drops in HVAC piping systems. The program provides a more comprehensive, user-friendly, and web-based selection tool for engineers, consultants, and designers.
Pipe Restoration Technologies LLC announced that it has been awarded Patent No. 8206783 by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), its fifth U.S. patent for its ePIPE in-place pipe restoration system. This patent is focused on methods that provide enhanced cleaning and lining of smaller diameter pipes.
Grooved mechanical piping has been changing the way contractors do business for more than 85 years, but this method of pipe joining is still unknown or misunderstood in some areas of the commercial building industry.
For securing PEX, CPVC, or copper piping in domestic hot- and cold-water systems and in hydronic heating applications when a job is in process or interrupted, the Speedfit test caps provide a leak-proof seal in conjunction with the company’s push-fit fittings.
At an AHR Expo press conference, Xylem Inc. announced that its Bell & Gossett ESP System Syzer is now available for mobile handheld devices. The ESP-System Syzer is calculates flow rates and pressure drops in piping systems.
While it’s often viewed as “new” and lumped in with other plastics, polypropylene pipe has in fact been used around the world for nearly 40 years and is highly engineered — offering HVAC application benefits that many other plastics can’t. It also offers several advantages over metal HVAC pipe systems.