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Put Hot Water Through a Steam Coil?

dbarto
dbarto Member Posts: 1
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I have a distributed steam coil (otherwise called non-freeze) in a multizone air handling unit.  Its the single header, tube-in-tube design.  I need to provide temporary emergency heat to the building and will have hot water, but not steam available. 

Anyone ever try to pump hot water through a distributed steam coil?  I only need a fraction of its steam capacity to temper the building.

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  • EBEBRATT-Ed
    EBEBRATT-Ed Member Posts: 17,021
    hot water

    If you cut one of those coils up you would see that the steam distributing tube is probably only 1/4" or 3/8" od copper. I doubt you could get enough flow through it to do any heating..
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