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Home > Departments > Facilities Planning & Design > Projects > Project Gallery > Energy Projects

Energy Projects

Update as of: February 3, 2010


Project Overview:
Over the last year, Facilities Planning and Design has been involved with the design and implementation of numerous energy conservation measures throughout the North and South campus. The projects included the replacement of one large chiller at the Baker Chilled Water Plant, replacing the RIA chiller, extending chilled water lines to Kimball Hall, and providing winter cooling for BEB and process cooling for BRB. For all of the cooling measures listed, a more efficient method of providing chilled water was designed.

The Baker plant reduced its overall consumption by over .2KW/Ton. Additionally, the existing 134a refrigerant from the old chiller was harvested and stored onsite to be used in the new chillers as the need arises. The RIA chiller replacement included the replacement of an old water cooled chiller with a more efficient air cooled model that supplied Foster Hall the year before. At Kimball Hall new chilled water lines from the BEB central plant were installed to replace the existing chiller. This change provided both esthetic upgrades as well as increased efficiencies. The winter cooling will eliminate three separate chillers and provided the cooling requirements from the BEB central plant at increased efficiencies. The new process cooling will eliminate the exterior closed loop cooling tower and centralize the cooling needs via an internal heat exchanger and the BRB chilled water plant.

Current status:
Of the measures listed above, Baker, RIA and Kimball have been in operation in the warranty period throughout this past summer.  The winter cooling and process cooling measures are currently under construction.  The winter cooling is scheduled for test and startup in mid February with the process cooling startup scheduled for late spring of 2010.

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