Old boiler rooms are often home to steam-heating boilers. Older cities are loaded with these and lots of people — knuckleheads included — have had decades to mess with what the “dead men” once ...

Holistic assessments of steam systems identify interdependencies, leading to more effective and lasting solutions. Long-term service partnerships foster institutional knowledge, faster troubleshooting ...

Recently, the photos that accompany the columns haven’t been matching up as well as I like, and since “it’s all about me,” I wanted to make sure I took some job site photos to use for this column. It ...

Declining performance of a large compressor-driven steam turbine's surface condenser at Shell Chemical LP's petrochemical complex in Norco, La., was constraining an associated process unit to a ...

When designing or replacing a low pressure steam boiler, throw out everything you know about hydronic boilers. A steam system is closer in operation to an air conditioning unit than it is to a ...

Even minor traces of chloride, sulfate, and sodium hydroxide can cause severe problems in steam systems, and especially turbines. In the case of sodium hydroxide, stress corrosion cracking of turbine ...