Central Utility Plant

Boiler # 10 burner and controls.

Central Utility Plant

Steam Driven Chillers

Electrical Substation #710 Kendrick Road

Electrical Switch Gear

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Electrical Switchgear

Plant Operators make sure plant operates reliably & efficiently.

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Steam Co-Generation Turbines, High Pressure Steam in foreground, Low Pressure Steam in background.

Central Utility Plant

Boiler #6 Control Panel. This panel and the controls within will be upgraded in 2021.

Distributed Control System Human Interface monitors operations in Central Utility Plant, Mid Campus Chiller Plant and Substation #710.

Central Utility Plant

High Pressure Steam Turbine Co-Generator simultaneously produces electricity and heating hot water.

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Overhead crane in co-generation bay. Below crane is the low pressure steam co-generation turbine.

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Cooling Tower #1. This tower uses pumps, fans and surface area to evaporate water to cool heat rejected from chiller #5. Boiler #10 in Central Utilities Plant Mid

Mid Campus Chiller Plant Exterior

The upper two thirds of the building houses the evaporative cooling towers, which can just barely be seen through the screens in the front of the building. The lower one third of the building houses the five electric chillers.

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Water vapor rises from cooling tower#2 and boiler#9 exhaust stack. All visible emissions from the central utility plant are due to condensing water vapor. Under normal operations there is no smoke or particulates emitted from the plant.

1967 Construction of the Pump House which pumps river water to the Central Utility Plant for heat rejection of chillers 1, 2, 3, 4. Chiller 1 is now retired. Chillers 2, 3, 4 are still online. Note: no chemicals are put into the river through this process.

1967 Construction of Pump House tunnel to Central Utility Plant under railroad tracks. The railroad tracks were later removed and are now a pedestrian walkway.

University of Chicago

1926 – University of Rochester attends facilities conference where the idea of cogeneration at UR is first known to be dicussed.

1967 Work inside the pump house tunnel connecting the Central Utility Plant to the pump house.

Underground insulated hot water piping during installation near Elmwood Avenue.

More underground insulated hot water pipe installation near Elmwood Avenue.