[SEL] Maybe OT; steam pipe

Lew Best bee_keeper at earthlink.net
Thu Jul 19 07:44:45 PDT 2007


Interesting!

Lew
 

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Most new hospitals have central steam plants. The steam has a number of
uses in a hospital including heating of the building, domestic hot
water, humidificaction, sterilization and a number of other uses. It can
also provide cooling with absrobption chillers. Several of the older
college campuses have central steam plants and when a new building is
built, it is usually connected to the steam system.

St. Louis has a steam loop in the downtown area. Most of the new
buildings are connected to the steam loop for heating, etc. There is a
steam boiler plant in a building near the downtown area. I think it used
to burn coal in the boilers  but uses natural gas now. At one time, they
were looking a burning trash to generate steam but that turned out to
not be economically feasible.

Tom in St. Louis



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