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10/06/2010

Texas Medical Center Brings Combined Heat and Power Plant Online

New Texas Medical Center CHP plant offers efficiency, savings

 
Texas Medical Center Brings Combined Heat and Power Plant Online

Thermal Energy Corporation (TECO) has opened a new combined heat and power (CHP) plant at the Texas Medical Center in Houston, TX. The Texas Medical Center is the largest medical center in the world, and now boasts the largest on-campus, district chilled water system in the country.

CHP plants can operate at almost twice the efficiency as conventional power methods – The new CHP plant will reduce carbon dioxide emissions at the Texas Medical Center by 300,000 tons annually, as well as saving approximately $1.5 million a year in energy costs.

The new CHP facility at the Texas Medical Center is powered by gas turbines, operating on many of the same principles as modern aircraft. Hot exhaust gas from the gas turbine is captured to create steam for the medical facility, and the electric and waste heat generated as a byproduct of facility functions is converted to steam and chilled water that is then used for air conditioning, dehumidification, sterilization, and space heading throughout the Texas Medical Center.

Funding for the new Texas Medical Center CHP plant was provided as part of nine Recovery Act awards, which contribute a total of around $149 million toward the advancement of energy efficient, innovative technologies at locations such as hospitals and utilities.

 

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05/16/2013
Net-zero is often on the facility management radar as technology allows for increasingly efficient energy management strategies and techniques.  But could net-zero become the real deal for homeowners as well?
05/15/2013
Walmart has announced that it will conduct in-depth safety inspections at 100% of the factories in Bangladesh that produce goods for the retailer. The company will complete all reviews within six months and will publicly release the names and inspection information on all 279 factories. As a result, workers in these facilities can be assured of safer working conditions, and the entire market will be lifted to a new standard.
05/09/2013

The struggle to obtain maximum temperature comfort for building tenants at an affordable cost has long been a challenge in the commercial real estate market. With new commercial HVAC technology coming into the marketplace every day, the innovative performance of two-stage water source heat pumps are starting to become more widely accepted for achieving maximum comfort at minimum cost. 

05/08/2013
A longtime concern of the facility manager, electrical fires are a persistent issue for home structures and buildings. 

The Home Electrical Fires report estimates that an electrical failure or malfunction factored in 45,000 to 55,000 home structure fires reported to the U.S. fire departments every year since 2000.
05/06/2013

An old microwave oven headed for the dumpster may lead to significant developments on the solar energy front.  Sometimes, truth is stranger than fiction.
05/01/2013
Do You Smell That? Odor complaints are the most challenging problems I am asked to solve as an Indoor Air Quality Professional.  Often only one or two of the building’s occupants out of 50 or 100 can detect the odor
04/29/2013
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced the winner of its third-annual Energy Star National Building Competition. More than 3,000 schools, businesses, and government buildings across the country competed to see which could reduce its energy use the most in one year—and a New Jersey elementary school emerged victorious.
04/25/2013
The microbial population in the air of the New York City subway system is nearly identical to that of ambient air on the city streets.
04/25/2013

The United States ranked first among 21 countries most actively using the tax code to influence sustainable corporate activity, according to the inaugural edition of the KPMG Green Tax Index, reflecting the country's extensive and long-established program of federal tax incentives for energy generally, including specific incentives for energy efficiency, renewable energy and green buildings.

04/24/2013

Let this stat sink in: 98% of lamp's energy goes to lighting the street instead of the night sky. 

Streetlights illuminate the night, shining upon roadways and sidewalks across the world, but these ubiquitous elements of the urban environment are notoriously inefficient and major contributors to light pollution that washes out the night sky. Recent innovations in light emitting diodes (LEDs) have improved the energy efficiency of streetlights, but, until now, their glow still wastefully radiated beyond the intended area.

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