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To: Chicory

I grew up in an apartment that had steam radiators. The steam helped humidify the apartment as well.


9 posted on 09/07/2022 5:25:26 PM PDT by SauronOfMordor (A Leftist can't enjoy life unless they are controlling, hurting, or destroying others)
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To: SauronOfMordor

I grew up in an apartment that had steam radiators. The steam helped humidify the apartment as well.
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Can you explain how that works? Most of the systems I’ve seen are ‘one-pipe systems’... steam flows into the radiator and as it gives off its heat, it cools and condenses and flows out as a liquid in the same pipe that it came to the radiator at in the form of steam. Thus the pipe handles steam going in one direction and liquid in the other.... the liquid going back to the boiler is then reheated and sent on its way the radiator again. I believe these are essentially a closed loop system. So how does the steam humidify the space?


31 posted on 09/07/2022 6:25:58 PM PDT by hecticskeptic
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