Facts At Your Fingertips: Comparing Steam and Heat-Transfer-Fluid Utility Systems
| By Kent Fischer, Eastman Chemical; edited by Scott Jenkins, Chemical Engineering Magazine
While modern steam systems trace their history to James Watt’s steam engine in 1776, heat-transfer-fluid (HTF) systems are more recent, dating to 1926 with the use of diphenyl oxide as a heat recovery agent in power plants [1]. This one-page reference…