Reverse Return Reexamined

There is a perception that a reverse-return hydronic piping configuration uses more piping and is therefore more expensive than its direct-return counterpart. While the cost disadvantage of reverse-return is true in some instances, this seminar presents a case that reverse-return doesn’t always add piping length and system cost, depending on system configuration. Reverse-return is sometimes overlooked or dismissed out-of-hand when it offers tangible benefits and could easily have been implemented at no net cost to the project, so a goal of this seminar is to encourage pipe system designers to explore and consider reverse-return in further detail.