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Power plant personnel operate a new gas turbine cogeneration plant that was commissioned in June of this year to replace the existing steam turbine power plant. The new cogeneration plant consists of a 10,000 horsepower Solar Taurus 70 gas turbine fueled by natural gas, an Alstom generator producing 7,200 kilowatts of electricity at 13,800 volts, a 77,000 pound per hour heat recovery boiler producing saturated steam at 135 psig, a 300 ton two stage absorption refrigeration unit and a 25 gallon per minute reverse osmosis water purification system. The plant is controlled via a state of the art distributed control system. This new plant is more fuel efficient and is capable of supplying all of the University's electrical requirements. The old steam turbing plant could supply only 60% of the University's electrical needs.
Low pressure steam from the new cogeneration plant is distributed via underground pipelines to the campus. The steam is utilized year round for heating in the winter and cooling in the summer via four pipe heating and ventilation systems. Lithium bromide absorption chillers that utilize the heat from the steam are used to produce cool air for air conditioning.
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