The University of Michigan-Dearborn is a regional campus with an enrollment of 9,400 students. When the university opened in 1959, three large steam boilers located in the basement of its Engineering Lab Building provided heat and hot water to the campus via underground tunnels. After nearly 40 years it was time to begin updating the plant.
Throughout a 20-year period, Gary Taylor, head of plant operations at UM-Dearborn, oversaw the replacement of surge and deaerator tanks as well as leaking underground steam piping and condensate return piping in multiple phases. In addition, the chemical treatment systems and procedures were revamped and updated to ensure protection of the plant equipment and systems.
"If you were to replace a three-pass boiler with a four-pass, you wouldn't be able to properly vent everything."
Patrick Michels, D.J. Conley Associates
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