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Summer Session Kansan
Tuesday, July 2, 1963
Power Plant Production Requires Aid to Meet Needs
By Clint Richards
The University of Kansas is in the process of acquiring 33,000 volts worth of insurance against blackout.
This power-in-the-cable, like money-in-the-bank, is intended to protect against emergencies.
AN EMERGENCY power service line from the west will come in near the nuclear reactor center, where a step-down transformer will cut voltage to 12.470. The electricity will then go into the regular utility tunnel system, and to the power plant for redistribution.
Until the 1950s, the power plant supplied all the electricity used by the university. In terms of modern demand, it became wholly inadequate, and the university began buying power, like any other customer, from the Kansas Power and Light Co.
It was a choice of continued do-it-yourself, involving acquisition of expensive power-producing machinery, or going to commercial sources. The latter was cheapest.
The company feeds power onto the campus through underground cables entering at the south edge and carrying 33,000 volts. Until recently it came in at only 4,160 voltage.
Now, the voltage is dropped to 12.470 through step-down transformers. Still other transformers knock the power down to 4,160—the voltage for most buildings. A few buildings with their own transformers receive electricity at 12.470 volts.
The old power plant was discarded with the acquisition of power from other sources. Its steam boilers still turn out power for such things as refrigeration, heating and cooking.
The "Reddy Kilowatt" of this operation is Eldon Ulrich. Twelve persons work full time under his direction while the old plant steams along on three shifts every 24 hours.
Distribution of power, commercial and otherwise is a complex operation simply controlled—by switching gears at the power plant. It automatically breaks up the power and sends it off to the various branches of the underground redistribution system.
This system provides electricity only for buildings on the main part of the campus. If it should break down—an unlikely circumstance in view of underground immunity from storms—air conditioners still would hum in the dorms and other buildings on the outskirts. They receive power direct from Kansas Power & Light. Co.
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First service — 9:00 a.m.
Sunday school — 9:45 a.m.
Second service — 11:00 a.m.
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informal dress encouraged Visitors welcome
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NOW! At 7 & 9 Mat. Daily 2 p.m.
Ends Tonight!
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