Jed you say you know the data but have to keep them secret. Correct? Can you please tell the most 'innocent' ones- the daily consumes of electric energy from the grid by the 1MW plant? peter
On Sat, May 21, 2016 at 7:16 PM, Jed Rothwell <jedrothw...@gmail.com> wrote: > a.ashfield <a.ashfi...@verizon.net> wrote: > > >> Jed, I gave you one example from first hand experience, that was a 1.5 >> ton/day art glass furnace and someone else provided examples of 4 MW >> boilers. So common sense tells me it is not unreasonable to do so. >> > > How much power did your glass furnace consume? > > Was the facility enclosed, or was it open to the outside? The large kilns > and glass making furnaces I have seen had open walls, like a steel mill, so > they did not need as much ventilation equipment as an enclosed space. > > It is not unreasonable to run this kind of equipment in the enclosed > customer warehouse as long as there is industrial scale ventilation. But > the I.H. expert would have to confirm there is such equipment, and it is > operating. He would have to measure the heat flow. > > As I said, 1 MW in this space would be like running 16 space heating > furnaces continuously without thermostats. To remove that much heat, you > need a 22" vent and a large fan. An expert from I.H. would have to confirm > this ventilation equipment is installed and working to confirm the claim. 1 > MW of heat release calls for at least at 22" vent: > > http://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/chimney-sizing-d_175.html > > A 4 MW boilers in an enclosed space needs even larger vents and fans. > > Portable 1 MW Diesel electric generators produce 3 MW of waste heat. They > cannot be operated indoors. They are outdoors, and they have large built in > radiators that produce a massive flow of hot air, similar to railroad > locomotive cooling. Much larger than semi-truck engine radiators. Here is a > photo of a 1 MW generator: > > http://www.turbinemarine.com/generators.html > > - Jed > > -- Dr. Peter Gluck Cluj, Romania http://egooutpeters.blogspot.com
