Any person who loves to drive fast classic cars understands the need for proper air-to-fuel mixture or ratio. If you are old enough to remember …
Condensing Boiler Specification – Part 6 – Variable Primary-Variable Secondary Example
Variable Primary-Variable Secondary pumping in hydronic heating systems has many advantages when this pumping method is chosen for the condensing boiler heating system. Today we …
Condensing Boiler Specification – Part 5 – Primary-Secondary Thoughts
Primary-Secondary pumping in hydronic heating systems is a tried-and-true method of protecting boilers while benefitting from the use of variable speed pumps in the secondary …
Condensing Boiler Specification – Part 4 – Variable Primary Thoughts
Many hydronic heating systems that use condensing boilers are designed with primary variable pumping. In this type of system, the flow rate through the terminal …
Condensing Boiler Specification – Part 3 – Operation at Lower Loads
Fire tube condensing boilers can modulate the combustion side down as the load decreases. This turndown may be just five to one (5:1) in some …
Condensing Boiler Specification – Part 2 –Boiler Temperature Reset Made Simple?
Last week we suggested using an efficiency less than the published maximum when selecting a hydronic condensing boiler for a comfort heating system. This week …
Condensing Boiler Specification – Part 1 – Design Efficiency
Condensing boilers can provide optimum efficiency for your clients’ heating systems. What do you need to understand and decide on when creating the specification and …
Primary Secondary Piping Basics: Part 3 – The Common Pipe and Boiler Loops
Many boilers manufacturers recommend or suggest using a primary secondary arrangement rather than primary variable pumping. Often this piping scheme is suggested to avoid flow …
Condensing Fire-tube Boiler Heating Systems: Why Primary-Secondary Pumping May Make Sense (Part 2 of 2)
Engineers, today, tend to lean towards primary-variable piping systems in hydronic heating and cooling systems for commercial applications. The simpler piping and elimination of a …
Condensing Fire-tube Boiler Heating Systems: Why Primary-Secondary Pumping May Make Sense (Part 1 of 2)
Primary variable pumping systems are common in large commercial hydronic systems using firetube boilers. When we are designing smaller systems with loads less than one …