Page 6 University Daily Kansan, February 17, 1982
Plant repairs planned with $1 million request
By LISA GUTIERREZ Staff Reporter
KU officials plan to request more than $1 million from the Kansas Board of Regents in April for energy-saving modifications in the Lawrence canteen, a low-lying plant.
The modifications were outlined in a study recently completed by the Viron Corporation of North Kansas City, Mo., a national consultive engineering firm.
The office of facilities planning requested the study last June.
"We'll be forwarding it with other major capital improvements requests for possible consideration in 1804," she said, of facilities planning, said yesterdays.
The study was presented to the Regents last month.
THE MODIFICATIONS could save the University more than $750,000 in expenses annually, said Richard Perkins, associate director of plant maintenance.
"The modifications would pay for themselves within a year-and-a-half," Perkins said.
The majority of the modifications recommended by the study dealt with the central power plant and the distribution system, which includes steam lines in the tunnels running underneath the campus, he said.
Total savings in the central power
plant would be $324,789, according to the study. Savings in the distribution system were estimated at $402,184 annually.
Recommended modifications include new boiler controls and tune up; boiler blowdown heat recovery; boiler economizer and insulation for steam distribution lines, reserve water tanks, fuel tanks and water storage tanks and fuel oil heaters.
PERKINS SAID a few of the recommendations, such as the suggestion for new builer controls and meters, were made because some of the equipment in the power plant was oxidated
The power plant, south of Watson Library, was built in 1921.
Perkins said that some of the recommendations dealt with reclaiming heat that was lost during the blow-down process.
"THREE TIMES a day, we have to blow down the ends of the boilers to eliminate the formation of sludge in the boilers," he said.
He said energy could be saved by placing coils in the boilers to pick up an wasted heat.
"The hotter the water in the boilers, the less energy it would take to produce the steam," Perkins said.
Lawton said the earliest consideration of the proposed energy-saving recommendations would be by the 1983 legislative session.
Towers tenants say hot water runs cold
Residents of the Jayhawker Towers are steamed up about the lack of hot water in the mornings.
"You have to get up before the sun rises to get hot water here." Daric Laughlin, Lindsborg junior, said Monday.
Laughlin and other residents of towers A and C complained that the hot water supply ran out by 7 a.m. each day.
"If you get up later than a quarter after seven, or 7:30, you can forget it," tower A resident Anita Derby, Concord, Mass., sophomore, said.
Most of the residents of towers A and C said they had rearranged their schedules around the hot water, taking showers at high tide or the morning or getting up earlier to bed and then going back to bed.
Tom Pratt, Towers manager, said one of the water heaters in Tower C had gone out, and the maintenance had to order a replacement.
Each of the four towers is supplied with hot water by three heaters that feed that tower's system. Pratt said, the water runs out sooner than it should.
Pratt said he was unaware of any problem with tower A's hot water system.
Tower D residents said their hot water problems, which started after semester break, had been solved earlier in February.
Pratt said the maintenance department replaced one of tower D's three water heaters earlier this month.
Pratt said the maintenance department normally kept an extra water heater on hand in case any of the four towers broke in each of the four towers broke.
Pratt said that because the extra water heater was put into tower D, the maintenance department had to repair it when tower C' heater went out.
"You can't build a foolproof system," he said.
Pratt said there shouldn't be any problem paying for the replacements.
"They have never yet balked at spending money that needed to be spent," Prat said of the KU housing complex. It was the apartment complex in April 1880.
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