Articles Tagged with ''hydronics zone ''

Having the proper air-side pre-pressurization prevents system water from entering the expansion tank, until the water begins expanding due to heating. 

It took six firefighters to get the kid out of the duct, and Mama got older. Much older.

Last fall, I taught my first online course dealing with designing hydronic heating systems. The course was titled “Mastering Hydronic System Design.” It was a collaborative effort between HeatSpring Learning Institute, BNP Media’s CE Campus, and myself.

I turned 64 in January, and if I knew I was going to live this long, I would have taken better care of myself. 

If you’re using a calculator, spreadsheet, or other computational tool, you should use the most accurate numbers possible. It’s just part of being a professional.

The year I served as the potted plant, Sheraton was building a hotel out on Lawn Guyland. This is where things got tricky. 

The following formula has been around the North American hydronics industry for a long time: Btuh = 500 x gpm x delta T. It can be used to estimate the rate of heat transfer into or out of a device that has a stream of water flowing through it at a known flow rate, and with a measured temperature change between the inlet and outlet of that water stream.

Unless you get an older steam system working as it should be working, sensors and software will just let you know that something is wrong.

In newer modulating/condensing boilers, many of their heat exchangers had to sacrifice two very desirable qualities in the interest of being small and light.

As the noted philosopher Mr. Michael “Iron Mike” Tyson once said, “Everyone has a plan, ’til they get punched in the mouth.”