Heating Facilities: Klamath County Road Department Shops, Klamath Falls, Oregon.

Technical Report · Tue Dec 30 04:00:00 EST 1980

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/6809416· OSTI ID:6809416

Maywood Industries is presently utilizing 118/sup 0/F water pumped from a geothermal well about 1500 feet deep. The Klamath County Road complex presently heats about 13,000 square feet of space using electric and natural gas heaters. It is planned to increase the total heated area to nearly 24,000 square feet. This study is based on eliminating the existing electrical and natural gas heaters and heating the entire 24,000 square feet geothermally. It was found to be practical and economically feasible to heat the road department shop complex geothermally. Capital cost is estimated to be $170,000. Annual energy savings for the enlarged facility would be 56,720 KWH of electricity and 36,924 therms of natural gas, with a first year value of $18,175. This savings, less operating costs, when applied with escalation considerations over a period of twenty years, result in a present worth of $382,385 when discounted at 8%. Thus, with 8% bonds financing of this project is economically attractive. (MHR)

• Research Organization: Oregon Inst. of Tech., Klamath Falls (USA)
• Sponsoring Organization: United States. Bonneville Power Administration.
• DOE Contract Number: AC79-79BP15325
• OSTI ID: 6809416
• Report Number(s): DOE/BP-15325-T2
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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