District Heating & Cooling

1st Quarter 1994 | Volume 79 Number 3

On the Cover

District heating and cooling, and its benefits, translates into many languages.

Pacific Rim Countries Seeing Exponential District Heating and Cooling Growth (p17)

Korea, Japan and China, countries with cultures dating back thousands of years, have developed district energy cultures as well. As international energy business continues to grow and as IDHCA prepares to visit Seattle, District Heating and Cooling offers a look at the progress and needs of the district heating and cooling industries operating and growing thousands of miles west of the North American shores.

Residential Focus Key to Korean District Heating Growth (p18)

Japan: Both District Heating and Cooling See Promising Futures (p24)

China: District Heating Seen as Energy Solution (p32)

Plate-and-Frame Heat Exchangers: Efficiently Delivering Energy (p5)

Leonard Gassy, Product Manager, Western Region, Tranter, Inc.

Shell-and-Coil Heat Exchangers: A Superior Technology Yields Superior Results (p7)

Torn Anderberg, President, ELGE Incorporated

In an ongoing effort to bring District Heating & Cooling readers up-to-date information on technical applications being used in the industry, this issue focuses on heat exchangers. These articles focus on case studies of installations using plate-and-frame heat exchangers and shell-and-coil heat exchangers. Two more articles on additional types of heat exchangers will appear in the next issue of this publication.

Sleepless in Seattle: Seattle Steam Company Caps a Century of Service With a $4 Million Capital Program (p10)

Lanny Wuerch, Vice President and Director of Marketing and Customer Relations, Seattle Steam Company

Seattle's district steam company has plenty to celebrate these days - namely, 100 years of successful relationships in a business where "the boiler never sleeps." Since 1893, Seattle Steam has seen its customer list grow steadily from a small cluster of 27 buildings to more than 250 facilities representing a full spectrum of commercial, residential and institutional activity.

Second Largest in the Country: IPL Steam System Still Growing After 100 Years (p14)

Ralph Canter, Manager of Steam Operations, Indianapolis Power & Light

Last fall Indianapolis Power & Light celebrated the company's 100 years of steam service with a gala open house and a week of activities recognizing the employees and customers that have made the Indianapolis steam network the second-largest in the United States (second only to New York City in amount of energy sold for one network).

San Bernardino Capitalizes on Natural Heat (p43)

Kevin Fisher and Brett Bailey, City of San Bernardino, California, Water Department

The largest direct-use geothermal district heating system in the United States is in San Bernardino, California, where it is managed by the City of San Bernardino Municipal Water Department (SBMWD). In 1985, SBMWD obtained a $2.75 million grant/loan to develop and construct a municipal geothermal district heating system. The system began construction in 1985 and serves 37 buildings through a 15-mile distribution system.

Geothermal Program has Western Focus (p14)

Kevin Rafferty, Research Associate, Geo-Heat Center at Oregon Institute of Technology

Twenty district heating systems in the United States currently use geothermal district heating.