New to the east side of Colorado Springs is UCHealth’s Eastview Medical Center, with three stories and 125,000 square feet of health care space. The third floor is where things get more interesting. This area is occupied by six operating rooms, where humidity and pressure are carefully controlled.

Boiler technology has come a long way in the past 70 years, and a lot of its major advancements have been in the area of efficiency. 

Traditionally, hospitals relied heavily on steam as their heat energy “lifeblood.” Steam was a critical medium to feed processes such as building heat, humidification, sterilization, domestic hot water, on-site laundry, labs, and kitchens. 

A steam separator sometimes called a moisture separator or a steam drier, is a device used to separate the moisture from the steam in a watertube boiler steam drum. 

Whether running hydronic or steam boilers, there are many ways to reduce operational costs throughout their life cycles. 

As a family-owned business with more than 16,000 steam boiler systems operating in more than 130 countries, CERTUSS America — a manufacturer of steam boiler systems based in Germany since 1957 — recently relocated its headquarters to Windsor, Connecticut. 

Modern electrode boilers can provide supplemental steam or hot water as required almost immediately.

Scheduled maintenance on critical steam infrastructure is essential to ongoing boiler safety, reliability, and efficiencies.

Specialized systems shall include a new gas-fired steam generator to produce the steam to new humidifiers in existing central air-handling units and specific areas of the building. Also, a new reverse-osmosis (RO) water system will serve the 100% water makeup to the steam generator.

In the HVAC industry, numerous words, expressions, equipment, and systems have heard their Auld Land Syne sung.