ALWAYS ON
Strawberry Iced Latte
“Do you remember the Shire, Mr. Frodo? It'll be spring soon. And the orchards will be in blossom. And the birds will be nesting in the hazel thicket. And they'll be sowing the summer barley in the lower fields... and eating the first of the strawberries with cream. Do you remember the taste of strawberries?” — Sam Gamgee (J.R.R. Tolkien (from 'The Return of the King' 1955)
Air Conditioning
Today at 15:00 UTC we review the latest in best practice literature for air conditioning systems in common education, healthcare settings and in the information and communication technology systems that supports activity in all of them.
Performance Monitoring for Power Plants
This relatively stabilized title covers performance monitoring concepts, a description of various methods available, and means for evaluating particular applications that should interest campus energy functionaries and consulting engineers. Comments on proposed changes to BPVC Section IV regarding site construction of heating boilers is a fairly active standard but with most changes administrative in nature.
Acceptable Performance Standard for District Cooling Systems
Thermal load on large campus power systems interact with electrical energy systems. Supercomputers domiciled in educational settlements depend upon stable and economic cooling that district systems may provide.
Quadrivium: Spring
Educational settlements should be magical places. The stack informing the beauty of these "cities-within-cities" changes 100 to 1000 times per day globally. Titles are time-sensitive, copyright protected and land in public law. We monitor the action continuously to formulate response to public consultations. Topics appear on our CALENDAR and explored every day at 15:00 UTC. Recommend refresh of this web page once or twice to see timeliest information.
Allston District Energy
The facility provides multiple buildings with steam, hot and chilled water, and 13.8 kV electricity through Combined Heat & Power systems. A noteworthy element is a 1.3 million gallon tank for storing chilled water produced off-peak, when electricity is less expensive, and distributed during daytime hours to buildings as needed.
Current Issues & Recent Research
We are tooling up for the NFPA 2029 National Electrical Code Technical Committee Meetings in September and the IEEE Industrial Applications Society Meetings in October.
Rewind: District Energy
From our 2010 VIDEO ARCHIVE: Lucas Hyman author of "Sustainable On Site CHP Systems: Design, Construction and Operations" published by McGraw, explains the fractal nature of district energy systems . Co-Editor Martin Meckler is a graduate of the University of Michigan. Mike Anthony contributed Chapter 23 -- Government Mission Critical - A combined FMECA and time value of money study on Critical Operations Power Systems.