My 96 unit condo association consists of two circa 1923 five story courtyard buildings which currently share an oil fired furnace to provide one pipe steam heat to both buildings.<\/p>\n
The buildings operate the steam system from a central boiler vented to an interior courtyard and individual hot water boilers in each building. There is a very large smoke stack as part of the original coal fired furnace which was abandoned in the late 1940s when the system was converted to oil.<\/p>\n
As our boiler is close to 30 years old now, the association wants to convert from oil to high efficiency gas. Doing so will require us to restore and reline the old smokestack and totally rework the existing boiler room. <\/p>\n %<\/span><\/span> | %<\/span><\/a> ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My 96 unit condo association consists of two circa 1923 five story courtyard buildings which currently share an oil fired furnace to provide one pipe steam heat to both buildings. The buildings operate the steam system from a central boiler vented to an interior courtyard and individual hot water boilers in each building. There is…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15313,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"schneps_byline":"","schneps_post_style":"","schneps_post_source":"","schneps_syndicated_read_more":"","schneps_post_source_sitename":"","schneps_syndicated_thumb_html":"","schneps_syndicated_thumb_src":"","schneps_post_source_shortname":"","schneps_post_source_url":"","schneps_post_source_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[198],"tags":[],"districts":[],"class_list":["post-28698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plumbing"],"acf":[],"parsely":{"version":"1.1.0","canonical_url":"https:\/\/brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2009\/02\/cogeneration-fe\/","smart_links":{"inbound":0,"outbound":0},"traffic_boost_suggestions_count":0,"meta":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Cogeneration Feasibility","url":"http:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2009\/02\/cogeneration-fe\/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"http:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2009\/02\/cogeneration-fe\/"},"thumbnailUrl":"","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":""},"articleSection":"Plumbing","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"FenFen"}],"creator":["FenFen"],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Forum Archive","logo":""},"keywords":[],"dateCreated":"2009-02-10T12:29:21Z","datePublished":"2009-02-10T12:29:21Z","dateModified":"2009-02-10T12:29:21Z"},"rendered":"