February 8, 2024
In the summer of 2021, a major utilities construction project had gouged the normally pristine lawns of the Wheaton College campus. “We wouldn’t have looked out of place in a World War I battlefield,” according to the college’s director of facilities, Jay Bieszke. Despite their appearance, the trenches had been dug to achieve a decidedly…
September 18, 2022
Below is a photo of Spirotherm’s large quad hydraulic air and dirt separator (VDX1000) that was implemented for the high-rise building Old Town Park in Chicago by Heatmasters and sourced/supported by Maddock Industries. Spirotherm is expected to save the building owner at least $4,000 per year in energy costs. Protecting their boilers from overflowing and…
April 14, 2022
Trapped air in chilled and heating hot water systems is the biggest source of problems we see in the HVAC industry: it forces pumps to work harder, less efficiently and more noisily. Air also contributes to corrosion, which introduces rust particles and debris into the HVAC water flow. Dirt and air are both insulators so,…
