As HVACR technicians, assessing whether the furnace we’re servicing is working efficiently is critical to understanding the overall health of the HVAC system — and to the success of our service call.

You might remember the days when a boiler tune-up mostly meant adjusting the flame. The flame was supposed to be solid blue with the tips slightly rounded. If the flame was soft, wavy and contained ...

Plant operators have used combustion flue gas analysis for decades as a method of optimizing boiler combustion fuel/air ratios. By measuring the amount of excess oxygen and/or carbon monoxide (CO) in ...

Bob is a service technician who is well trained and nationally certified. However, he sometimes suffers from the same confusion that all technicians occasionally do - the facts that he gathers may or ...

Elemental analyzers are also frequently called combustion analyzers because the combustion of the sample is an essential step of the analysis process. ELTRA analyzers utilize various types of furnaces ...

ELTRA's combustion analyzer, ELEMENTRAC CS-r, comes with IR detection for the secure, accurate and reliable elemental analysis of carbon (C) and sulfur (S) in predominantly organic materials like ...