A new look at vacuum heating

摘要

So let's say you're in one of America's older cities and scratching your head over an antique building that has a very confused steam-heating system. What to do? Of course, you can change parts and make repairs for the rest of your life, or until management tosses you into the street. Or you can suggest management have you rip out everything in the building and allow you to start anew. Another option is to try something new that may at first seem impossible. At least that's the way it struck me. But I was wrong. Which brings me to the delightful and very smart Igor Zhadanovsky. Igor founded Applied Energy Consulting in 1994 and he's been talking to me about steam for years. At first, I thought he was nuts, but that was my failing. I wasn't listening well enough. I knew too much about steam heating. My mind was made up and that's always a dangerous thing. Igor has a master's degree in chemical engineering from Tufts and a doctorate from the Moscow Petroleum Refining Institute. He is brilliant. He speaks English like Boris Badenov from the old Rocky and Bullwinkle cartoons and his analogies are wonderful.