Last month, I wrote about refrigeration design engineering being a lost skill. This month, I’m going to discuss another lost engineering skill: steam systems. When I started out at an HVAC consulting ...

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I have a steam background from service aboard a U.S. Merchant Marine steamship and was licensed as a steam engineer by the state of Minnesota. I say the Duluth Steam Plant conversion to a hot water ...