Central Michigan Life
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The whirring sound of machinery in Central Michigan University’s Central Energy facility is akin to standing near a jet engine. Though those on the university’s campus may not hear this symphony of equipment, their on-campus experience would not be possible without it.
Jonathan Webb, the associate vice president of facilities management at CMU, provided an inside look into the facility that keeps the university running.
The plant’s four megawatt turbine burns natural gas that produces the university’s electricity. The heat byproduct from that process is then put through a heat recovery steam generator and into a boiler, which provides heat in the winter and cooled through an absorption chiller to produce chilled water.
This process allows CMU to produce both heat and chilled water from a single energy source, cutting costs and saving energy.
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