Equipment Summary

This is a natural gas fired, combined heat and power (CHP) cogeneration plant with number two fuel oil back up. All steam turbines are 9 psig backpressure machines, the only condenser is the campus heating and cooling systems. There are two smoke stacks: the south is 150 ft. above grade and the north is 250 ft. above grade.   Installed on the roof is a high efficiency concentrated solar collector configured to augment the heating of  domestic hot water distributed to central campus.  The collector consists of a solar array parabolic trough reflector which concentrates the sun's energy onto a modular absorber. The absorber converts the sun's energy in a heat exchanger to heat for hot water.  The collector tracks the sun for maximum efficiency.