Monitoring Energy Consumption at Universities and Colleges
Monitoring Energy Consumption at Universities and Colleges
Universities and colleges spend an average of 18 cents per square foot on natural gas and $1.10 per square foot on electricity every year. Lighting accounts for about 31 percent of the annual utility bill, while heating and cooling account for about 28 percent. Heating water is the third largest expense, comprising about 25 percent of a university's yearly utility payments. Reducing utility bills through sound energy management is a major priority for most universities.
Energy management is particularly challenging for universities due to a large number of buildings, including dormitories, which have different energy requirements and different ways of consuming energy. And while managing the energy use in so many buildings is difficult, staying within the often-tight facility budget is even harder, requiring the awareness and cooperation of thousands of faculty, staff, and students. Allied Instrumentation can help with the measurement and control of chilled water and steam utilities throughout the campus.
Control steam flow with greater dynamics.
Shubert & Salzer’s Sliding gate control valve ensures The level of quality attainable in controlling a steam plant is heavily dependent on the dynamic characteristics of the total system comprising the control element, actuator and controller. The control parameters for sliding gate valves relating to dynamic behavior are clearly superior to those for conventional control valves. As a result, the highly responsive dynamics not only improve the control quality but also form the basis for control circuits with very short reaction times. This has proved to be the key factor in steam savings of up to 30 %. Current comparisons of steam plant operators show that savings of this magnitude are attainable only by installing a sliding gate valve in place of a traditional control valve.
Read this application note on Shubert & Salzer, The sliding gate valve reins in costs for steam systems.
The sliding gate valve reins in costs for steam systems
You can’t manage what you don’t measure!
Allied Instrumentation can help with the measurement and control of chilled water and steam utilities throughout the campus.
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