| Tech-Fitt® Systems Green Building Info: Lifetime Green Alternative for Steam Trapping |
To condense the definition givenby Wikipedia, a free online encyclopedia, "green building" is the practice of increasing the efficiency with which buildings use resources while reducing building impacts on human health and the environment. Effective green buildings can lead to 1) reduced operating costs, 2) improved public and occupant health, and 3) reduced environmental impacts.
The Tech-Fitt® System, used either in original construction or in retrofits, is the only steam trapping system designed to be effective, efficient, easy, lifetime, & meets all these criteria:
- Increases efficiency with which buildings use resources
- Saves water: Water is not lost, as steam overflow from condensate tank venting.
- Saves chemicals: Without loss of stream and water, critical chemicals used for robbing oxygen and neutralizing the steam condensate remain longer in the system and are not lost in the atmosphere of the building.
- Saves fuel: Steam is held in system long enough to release its heat into its intended area, resulting in more efficient use of fuels to create the steam.
- Reduces labor: Very little maintenance.
- Saves finances: Reduces amount spent on fuel, labor, water, chemicals & landfills.
- Improves public and occupant health
- Reduces stress on occupants: Eliminates hammering in steam pipes.
- Reduces toxins released into air and ground: Reduces amount of chemicals released through wasted steam and water.
- Keeps buildings more comfortable: Heat is used only where it is needed.
- Reduces environmental impacts
- Reduces impact on natural resources: Conventional traps fail and need to be replaced or repaired an average of every 3 - 5 years. The metals used to manufacture these traps and their repair parts must be continually extracted from the earth, and are placed in landfills after they fail.
- Reduces impact on landfills: Tech-Fitt® traps are designed to last for the lifetime of the equipment on which they serve. Tech-Fitt® traps do not need to be replaced and can even be re-used in other places if the equipment they serve becomes obsolete. In addition, the traps are constructed from recyclable stainless steal.
- Reduces toxins released into air and ground: Steam system chemicals remain within the steam system where they belong.
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