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 ...

If you’re one of the rare regular readers, you know by now that I like steam heat. If asked why, I would say it’s the uniqueness of the jobs I look at. I don’t think that they are ever the same, and I ...

The author uncovers an early Trane float air vent—offering a look at coal-era steam heating design, failed radiator traps, ...

BLYTHEWOOD, S.C. — Spirax Sarco, a provider of products and services for steam systems, has announced its latest training event: Basic Steam Boiler Operator Training. The five-day course will be held ...

Valve has officially acknowledged reports of a potential Steam data security breach. The company states that the event was not a breach of Steam systems and was in fact a leak of old text messages. On ...

J-seals are an integral part of efficient steam turbine operation. The failure of a J-seal can cause significant damage to the turbine rotor as material migrates downstream. For that reason, plant ...

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 ...