The future of hydronics: Combustion technology

摘要

From the time that man started a fire in a pit in a cave, the process of combustion has intrigued mankind. He has taken it upon himself to make the "fires" smaller, more efficient and as clean as possible. In this prosess, the technology has moved us from the Stone Age fire pit, to today's computer-driven, lightweight, highly efficient, fully condensing technologies. The road between the fire pit and the computer pit was strewn with boilers of all materials, good and bad, and of all combustion technologies, some better than others. There have been cast-iron vessels, copper vessels, steel vessels, copper finned-tube vessels, steel finned-tube vessels, stainless steel vessels, aluminum vessels and partially finned stainless vessels.