Nationwide Boiler recently hosted more than 30 students and teachers from the Discovery ChalleNGe Academy.

What are engineers making time to read?

Miura has welcomed Trap Energy Solutions in St. Louis Park, Minnesota, as its newest sales rep.

Diversified Heat Transfer Inc. (DHT) has named California Boiler as the new manufacturer representative for southern California for DHT’s commercial and industrial product lines.

This month’s Facility File will focus on the B2B April test for a K-8 school temporary heating project in sync with a utility rebate to furnish and install a new 120 boiler horsepower (BHP) condensing boiler application.

Nationwide Boiler Inc. appointed Rich Winfield to the position of outside sales engineer for the southern California region.

In 1973, an energy crisis led to the development of ASHRAE Standard 90. This event served as a catalyst for the creation of building design efficiency requirements, which eventually led to the creation of what is now known as the energy code for buildings.

This month’s Facility File focuses on the March Back2Basics retrofit of a campus-wide hot water boiler system covering 40 buildings with primary-, secondary-, and tertiary-pumping based on a performance lease agreement to retro-commission the system with a guaranteed operating savings. The university will hire an owner representative to work with a design-build-operate-maintain performance contractor (PC).

Weil-McLain introduced its full line of advanced, high-efficiency gas boilers for residential and commercial applications. The line now includes the Evergreen®, Ultra™ Series 4, GV90+® cast iron boiler and the AquaBalance® Series 2 — all operating with natural or propane gas and featuring the latest hydronic heating technology.

Boilers are closed pressure vessels that are used to heat fluids -- either water or steam. They range in size, fluid to be heated, temperature of fluid, and design configurations. This paper is the first in a series to explain total system efficiency with a focus on condensing hot water boilers used for space heating, process applications, and/ or domestic hot water heating.