Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1898 [PAGE 49]

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1896.]

PKOCEEDINGS OF BOAED OF TRUSTEES,

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2. Build here boiler house, engine room, and dynamo room, either in one building or closely connected. 3. Building a new chimney. 4. Install all our boilers in the boiler house, all our engines in the engineroom, and all our electrical machinery in the dynamo room. 5. Distribute steam for heating purposes through mains properly carried in tunnels. 6. Generate electricity at this plant for distribution through the tunnels r using it for both power and lighting purposes. 7. Install electric motors at all places where power is needed for running' fans or opeiating machinery. The advantages af such an arrangement as outlined above would be of the greatest importance. Weshould mostly eliminate the smoke nuisance. We should operate under maximum economic conditions both as to cost of fuel and labor. We should be able to use all our exhaust steam for heating purposes, and we could 1easily run 2,000 incandescent and 20 arc lamps without materially increasing our fuel consumption. We could put down a well and do a large part of our pumping. WTe could use a much cheaper grade of fuel. We could arrange for cheaper hauling by rail connections to our boiler house. We should have a modern and model plant. Its value as an investment would be undisputed. Its value as an educational feature would, be of the greatest importance to our engineering students. This fact is worthy of more than passing notice. Our students do not largely come from engineering* centers, and they carry away.wrong ideas from being educated in close proximity to poor engineering features. Costs—It would cost to build and equip the plant outlined above,. $95,000. The principal items of this amount are as follows:

Buildings— Boiler room, engine room and dynamo room Chimney — A p p a r a t u s for mechanical draft , Construction of 2.200 ft. of t u n n e l s at 35.00 Coal and ash handling: machinery Additional boiler capacity—250 H. P Automatic stokers (400 H. P) Moving old boilers Putting- steam m a i n s and r e t u r n s in t u n n e l s , installing- t a n k s , p u m p s , traps, etc Light and Poiver— Electric light and power m a c h i n e r y at central plant, capacity 2,000 incan descent, 20 arc and 100 H. P. generators P u t t i n g wires in t u n n e l s from central plant to each building Motors to replace engine now r u n n i n g New engines ror r u n n i n g d y n a m o s Pumping Plant— Installation of deep well p u m p , and pipes to all buildings Plans, specifications and s u p e r i n t e n d e n c e Total $35,000 00 6,000 00 4,000 00 11,000 00 4,500 00 4,500 00 3,000 00 1,000 00

5,500 00

7,500 00 2,500 00 2,000 00 1,500 00 3,000 00 4,000 00 $95,000 00

The electrical machinery now in the basement of University Hall would be more satisfactorily placed in a part of this building, and it would relieve the main building of dangers to which it is now subjected. In addition to the matter submitted in this report, your committee has obtained some twenty-five large blue prints showing in detail the construction and general arrangement of the heating systems visited, as well a* numerous photographs of buildings and special features seen at different places, all of which will be very useful, if such a plant should be erected at this University. Very respectfully submitted,

S. A . BULLARD, L. P. BRECKENRIDGE.