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Thursday, November 6. 1986 / University Daily Kansan
Computer will keep KU warm
By a Kansan reporter
A $40,000 computer smart enough to keep campus buildings at comfortable temperatures all winter long will soon become a part of the facilities operations power plant, the associate director of physical plants said yesterday.
Bob Porter, the associate director, said the University would install the new computer after workers had tested it.
Facilities operations released a large quantity of steam from the power plant yesterday to make one of the boilers work at peak condition while it was being tested.
The computer system should be ready for use in December, he said.
The system, he said, will automatically regulate the function of the boilers, which facilities operations workers now do manually.
Porter said that if the computer detects that the boilers need more water or fuel, the computer automatically
The $40,000 purchase eventually should save the University money, he said.
would add it. If the temperature or pressure gets too high, the system will regulate it also.
He said the computer would recycle fuel, which would lower operating costs.
Porter said recycling the fuel would increase the efficiency by at least 10 percent. The system now is operating at 68 percent to 70 percent efficiency.
"over a period of time, it should save quite a bit," he said
Another feature of the new system is a payback period. Porter said the money saved from the increased efficiency would equal the cost of the computer in about a year and a half.
Hayes Republic of Florida manufactured the computer and the University purchased it from a representative in Lenexa. Porter said.
The computer is about the size of an office desk, he said.
Carlin leads trade mission to Europe
The Associated Press
TOPEKA — Gov. John Carlin revealed yesterday that he would lead an eight-day trade mission to Europe starting Saturday and continuing through next week.
Carlin and officials of the Kansas Department of Economic Development plan to make stops in West Germany, Italy and France in part to "follow through on business contacts made during previous European trade missions," according to a
statement released by the governor's press office.
The governor spent 10 days travel ing in Europe as part of a trade mission in September 1985 and led a 46-member trade delegation to China in May.
During the trip, Carlin plans to visit Stuttgart, West Germany — the site economic development officials have recommended for the Kansas European Office. The location is scheduled to be considered soon by the board of the state's economic
development corporation, Kansas Inc., the statement said.
The delegation also will visit businesses and industries in the German high technology center of Dortmund. We will meet with West German ministers.
Carlin will meet with officials of Fiat, which owns the Hesston Corp., during a stop in Turin, Italy, the statement said. The governor also plans to meet with Italian industrialists to discuss manufacturing investments in Kansas.
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