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Show New Hot Line' Readies Campus For 4Cold War5 The heat's on at the University. An attractive three-story brick building on the upper campus has not drawn a great deal of attention thus far, but will play a major role in keeping campus buildings comfortable this winter. The structure is the new heating plant which contains modern furnaces that can burn either gas or coal. The plant is located north of Hempstead Road near the physical phy-sical and service plant office and shops. The site is reasonably central cen-tral to campus development and is convenient to the highway. Several buildings on campus will benefit from the convenient warm water heat this season including Merrill Engineering Center, Van Cott Hall, State Board of Health building and the new Medical Center. Lower campus buildings will be heated by the same plant, but a steam generating station will change the hot water to steam so the same pipes and radiators already in use in the older buildings can continue to be use. THE BRIGHTLY painted machinery ma-chinery and equipment is as neat and attractive as a modern kitchen. Rows of windows, whicch extend from the top to the bottom of the building add to efficient lighting inside as well as to outside design. The eight large pumps, the compressors, com-pressors, chemical tanks, fans, water softeners and conveyors are all neatly painted. The huge ten-inch ten-inch pipes which are used to carry the water away from the plant have approximately three and one-half inches of insulation packed around them and are a bright yellow in color. The large pipes extend from the basement of the building and on into a huge concrete tunnel which is nine feet high, eight feet wide and approximately 800 feet long. At the end of the tunnel smaller pipes are diverted into the various var-ious buildings involved in the heating heat-ing system. The plant is currently operas ' ing on gas but could be switched over to the use of coal without , any difficulty or inconvenience.' The unloading of coal is no problem prob-lem with this modern system. Coat is simply dumped through a heavy grill at ground level and enclosed conveyors and an elevator 3 if t the coal to overhead coal bunkers! The bunkers hold enough fuel for approximately ap-proximately 2y2 days of normal operating capacity. When coal is burned, ash handling is a cinch through the use of . a pneumatic-type pneumatic-type conveyor with an ash storage silo and a dustless unloading mechanism. CLAYTON H. KIMBALL, director direc-tor of the Physical Plant and Operations Op-erations at the University, said that every possible safety precaution has been installed for the efficiency efficien-cy of the system and for the protection pro-tection of the operator. Real economy econ-omy is achieved by automatic valves, temperature gauges, lights, and buzzers located on a colorful panel board which instantaneously show the heating engineers what the temperature is in every building build-ing connected to the system. The new plant provides space for three boilers, however, funds permitted the installation of only two. The old heating plant on the lower campus will be used on a standby and supplementary basis until additional funds are appro-. appro-. priated for the third boiler. A button on the panel board can be pushed and a diagram will show the operating engineer the locations loca-tions of all of the thermostats in any given building. Under the old system a heating engineer was kept' busy moving around the campus to check conditions in van:-buildings. van:-buildings. Now it's all done ant matically. |
