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Modern Engineering Concepts for Hydronic Heating Design Seminar Manual

Authors: John Siegenthaler, P.E.
� Copyright 2005 (168 pages Spiral bound, b&w)
ISBN 0-8273-7948-X

Cost: $30.00 + $6 shipping & handling

The Modern Engineering Concepts for Hydronic Heating Design seminar series was presented to hundreds of attendees across the US in 2005. If you didn't make it to one of these seminars but want a copy of the seminar manual here's your chance.

This 168-page manual covers several cutting edge hydronic heating concepts such as small variable speed circulators, interfacing solar and hydronic systems, and communicating control systems. It's well illustrated with many piping schematics and construction drawings and performance graphs. The topics in this manual were selected to help experienced hydronic heating professionals take advantage of the latest design and installation methods available for residential and light commercial applications. You'll find information not available in other publications. Get a copy while they're still available.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction
Section 1: Opportunities for Designing Modern Hydronic Systems for Residential and Light Commercial buildings
Section 2: Application Concepts for Small variable Speed Circulators
Section 3: Multiple Modulating Boiler Systems
Section 4: Interfacing Wood-Fired Heat Sources to Hydronic Distribution Systems
Section 5: Interfacing Solar Energy Collectors to hydronic Distribution Systems
Section 6: Minitube Systems; The Latest Approaches
Section 7: A unique Method for Radiant Wall Construction
Section 8: Communicating Controls for Hydronic Heating
Section 9: Modern Multi-load / Multi-temperature Systems
Section 10: Hydronic System Simulator Software

PREFACE

Welcome to the seminar. We appreciate your attendance, and have a full day planned for you. This seminar was organized to bring state of the art information on hydronic heating design to those who can best apply it. This includes consulting engineers and experienced hydronic system designers. The seminar emphasizes applications for custom residential and commercial hydronic heating systems. The goal is to ensure that hydronic heating professionals are aware of the latest hardware and design techniques that can be implemented to improve system performance and reduce cost. Too often, older design techniques and "traditional" hardware are used to design hydronic heating systems for modern buildings. An example would be pneumatic controls on a radiant floor heating system in a bus garage (installed in 2003).

Although such systems may work, they are far from state-of-the-art. Many will cost more, and perform less efficiently than if they had used one or more of the designed techniques to be discussed in this seminar. Value engineering is about reducing cost while also ensuring reliable and efficient performance. You will find a wealth of ideas for value engineering in this seminar. We expect you will also find repeated use for these concepts in your present and future hydronic heating projects.

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