Getting up a full head of steam

The boiler makeup water sector has been simmering along of late. It’s about to come to the boil, says Gord Cope.

Love, says the poet, makes the world go round. But steam, says the engineer, illuminates it. Over 80% of the electricity produced on Earth is generated using a boiler to create steam, which in turn generates watts of power. Boilers aren’t used solely in power plants, of course; in addition to heating homes and offices, refineries use them to ...

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