Occasionally while servicing refrigeration equipment, technicians may come across a system utilizing a water-cooled condenser instead of an air-cooled condenser. Water is a much better heat transfer ...

March 7, 2016 Spring will be here before we know it, and that means transition time for technicians. The end of the heating season means getting ready for the cooling season, at least at my latitude.

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 ...