Centralized energy management made affordable for new National Aviation and Transportation Center
- Lizardos Engineering Associates, Albertson, NY (United States)
Centralized energy management reduces long-term maintenance and operations costs, but the construction of large-scale central energy facilities requires considerable capital. Often yearly fundings and budgeting constraints of large multi-building construction projects prevent the application of truly centralized energy management architectures. Dowling College in Oakdale, Long island, NY, has overcome such budgeting and design constraints in its 10-year, $70 million plan for a National Aviation and Training (NAT) Center at a 105-acre site on Long Island, NY. The NAT Center`s energy design innovation is based on unique satellite energy plants, designed to provide Phase One, Two and Three constructions with centralized heating and cooling of a smaller-sized campus, at minimal start-up and operation costs. As construction continues after Phase Three, a larger main energy facility will be built to provide total campus and heating and cooling while former satellite plants are transformed into booster heating and cooling support and/or used during low load conditions. Careful selection of chiller/boiler equipment, low energy-efficient operating temperatures, piping distribution, and pump configuration all assure maximum equipment operating efficiencies and minimal gallon-per-minute pumping. This correlates to lower energy expenditures for the NAT center.
- OSTI ID:
- 96186
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-9506165--
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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