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Mark says steam consumption by the University is now less than it was two years ago when the Delta 2500 was installed...
...report says the highest energy expenditures made by the University go for steam, used in heating and cooling, and for electricity, used to power the fans and pumps of the heating and ventilating systems, and to power lights, lab equipment, and air conditioning systems...
...into pellets that are the energy equivalent of 120,000 tons of coal a year; it sells them to Commonwealth Edison Co. In Saugus, Mass., a Swiss-developed technique used by New Hampshire-based Wheelabrator-Frye converts and burns 1,200 tons of garbage daily, producing the steam equivalent of 12 million to 17 million gals, of oil a year for a nearby General Electric plant. A Milwaukee plant is designed to devour 1,600 tons of garbage a day and feed the byproduct fuel to the Wisconsin Electric Power...
...prospects brighten for making big money out of muck, a whole new industry has sprung up. Some firms, such as Wheelabrator-Frye. Grumman Corp. and UOP Inc., have been using technologies that basically consist of burning the trash in specially constructed heavy-duty incinerators to produce steam for electricity and heating. Other companies, including American Can, Raytheon, CEA and Occidental Petroleum, are experimenting with more complex systems that would produce synthetic fuels...
...garbage and can be used with oil, coal or natural gas. For example, a CEA plant in East Bridgewater. Mass., converts 1,200 tons of garbage a day into Eco-Fuel II, which is shipped 160 miles to Waterbury, Conn., where it is burned with oil to generate steam in a power plant...