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Convert to vaccuum system?
Bill Stocky
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Has anyone converted a one-pipe system to vaccuum? How involved is it? Is the improved efficiency worth it?
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Paul System?
Another poster was interested in doing a Paul System. They still make Paul valves for radiators. They are supposedly much more efficient. Look back a few days to last week there was some discussion there on the Paul System.
- Rod0 -
That thread
is called "Paul System Retrofit" and it's several pages down from here. For some reason I couldn't paste the link- but you'll find it.All Steamed Up, Inc.
Towson, MD, USA
Steam, Vapor & Hot-Water Heating Specialists
Oil & Gas Burner Service
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I'm curious, too
I can see restoring a vacuum system, but I'm curious about why you would convert, too. What little research I've done suggests the Paul system was used to augment existing one pipe setups- would this benefit still apply with more modern setups?
I wonder- with good main venting and insulation, would it be worth the $$$ in a residential settion?
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It would have to have
an electrically driven vacuum pump, since there may not be enough steam pressure to operate an ejector. When the Paul and other air-line systems came out, they were originally used on systems that produced higher-pressure steam for power or process work, which is why the ejectors worked so well.
I have a feeling someone, somewhere, is going to build a modern Paul system in the near future. In the old days the savings were something like 35%.All Steamed Up, Inc.
Towson, MD, USA
Steam, Vapor & Hot-Water Heating Specialists
Oil & Gas Burner Service
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