Steam distribution from the boiler to the points of end use should occur with minimal loss of energy. However, the total amount of steam distributed (figure 1) never matches the amount of steam coming ...

Vicinity Energy's Operations Manager Mike Ancona explains how a modern co-generation plant creates the steam that heats Center City office buildings. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY) This story is part of the ...

Steam distribution systems support manufacturing across a huge range of industries, from craft brewing to oil refining and most everything in between. Steam can carry enormous amounts of energy, and ...

From 2010 to 2015, Indianapolis Power & Light (IPL) experienced an increase in secondary network events, resulting in cable fires and dislodged manhole covers. After conducting root cause analyses, ...

In steam systems that have not been maintained for three to five years, between 15 percent to 30 percent of the installed steam traps may have failed - thus allowing live steam to escape into the ...

Dave Vandas is deep underneath Northwestern's Evanston campus. He is walking through a concrete tunnel tall enough for his six-foot frame to stand in, but not quite wide enough to extend his arms to ...

The benefits of upgrading NSF Indian Head’s power and steam capability are quickly becoming apparent as the base’s new system of nodal, natural-gas powered plants approaches its first full year of ...

This EPC project will modernize campus steam system, reducing its carbon footprint and enhancing energy efficiency As part of this modernization, Ameresco will replace Northeastern’s aging district ...

IOWA CITY - Grand Avenue, near the Boyd Law Building, is under construction again as the University of Iowa starts a second phase of work on an underground steam distribution system. The $10 million ...