Production Equipment

Co-generation
(Tri-generation)

Utilities has two plants on campus that serve all of UC's buildings and six hospitals. The plants burn a variety of fuels to ensure our reliability and cost efectiveness. The plants are connected via underground piping and tunnels and contain the equipment listed below.

CUP
With its two Solar Titan combustion turbines, a Dresser-Rand steam turbine, five York chillers, two Trane chillers, two ERI heat recovery steam generators and two Nebraska boilers, the Central Utility Plant is ready to power all of this and more.

EUP
The East Campus utility plant houses 2 package boilers, 2 coal boilers, and 15,000 tons of chillers including 2 gas fired chillers, and a 3,000,000 gallons chilled water storage system.

Reliability
Service is at the heart of the university's mission - service to students, to faculty and researchers, to the larger community. Part of that service is to provide quality learning, working and living environments. It means that the university must be able to deliver reliable utilities every day, all day. The university seeks to continue its 99.98% energy reliability rating as in the past.

 

Electric Production		47MW
Steam Production		610,000 pounds-per-hour capacity Coal, gas, oil, interruptible gas
Chilled Water Production		34,000 capacity Natural gas and electric chillers
Thermal Energy Storage		2.8 million gallons of chilled water

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Learn More:
Plant Flow Diagram (PDF)
What is Co-Generation? (PDF)

Awards:
System of the Year 2005 (PDF)