Thursday, March 1
7:00 a.m. – 8:00 a.m. Continental Breakfast with IDEA Business Partner Exhibitors
Campus Cooling & Fuel and Power
Thermal Storage System Procurement/Renewable Fuels
8:00 a.m. – 8: 30 a.m. Loma Linda University Natural Gas Procurement
Infrastructure Expansion Strategies
8: 30 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. Adaptive Control System Portfolio Approach to Natural
for Chilled-Water Pumping Gas Procurement
9:00 a.m. – 9: 30 a.m. Thermal Energy Storage Campus Electric Power
in a Deregulated Supply Upgrade
Environment
9: 30 a.m. – 10: 30 a.m. Refreshment Break with Business Partner Exhibitors
Campus Cooling & Operations, Controls, Compliance
Thermal Storage Systems
10: 30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. Campus Chilled-Water Heat Recovery at University of
System Optimization British Columbia
11:00 a.m. – 11: 30 a.m. Properly Valuing TES Safe Reagent for SCR NOx Control
in a Deregulated
Electric Market
11: 30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. IDEA Recognition Luncheon
A View From Capitol Hill – Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas
(Invited) IDEA Legislative Initiatives by Rob Thornton
U.S. EPA CHP Energy Star and Certificate Awards
1:00 p.m. – 1: 30 p.m. Coffee and Dessert with IDEA Business Partner Exhibitors
Systems Operations/ Combined Heat and Power/
Optimization Cogeneration
1: 30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. Operation of Cascade Arizona State University Campus
Ice-Making System at CHP Plant
Sanken Technology
Center, Japan
2:00 p.m. – 2: 30 p.m. Discovering & Verifying Lessons Learned at Biogen CHP
Energy Conservation
in Buildings
2: 45 p.m. – 3: 45 p.m. Utility Leaders Panel – Fuel Purchasing Strategies
3: 45 p.m. – 5: 15 p.m. Campus Forum Meeting Business Partner Forum Meeting
5: 15 p.m. – 6: 30 p.m. Reception with IDEA Business Partner Exhibitors
Friday, March 2
8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. Breakfast Briefing – Conference hosts will provide brief overviews
of systems prior to technical tours.
9:00 a.m. – 9: 15 a.m. Buses board for technical tours
9: 15 a.m. – 12: 30 p.m. Technical tours of TECO, Rice University and Baylor College
of Medicine
Registration Fees
Please obtain additional registration information at www.districtenergy.org/calendar.htm where you can link to online registration or
download a registration form.
Workshop Only
Members
Non-members
Campus Energy
Conference Only
Members
Non-members
Spouse/Guest
Combined Workshop
and Conference
Members
Non-members
Spouse/Guest
On or before
Fri., Feb. 9
$185
$285
On or before
Fri., Feb. 9
$710
$810
$160
On or before
Fri., Feb. 9
$785
$890
$160
After Feb. 9
$235
$335
After Feb. 9
$810
$910
$185
After Feb. 9
$885
$990
$185
APPA and regional APPA members qualify for IDEA member rate.
Conference registration cancellations received before Feb. 9 will be
refunded less $75 processing fee. All registrations are non-refundable
after Feb. 9. Questions? Contact IDEA at (508) 366-9339.
Technical Tours
On Fri., March 2, the day will begin with a breakfast briefing describing
the three plants that will be featured during the morning technical tours.
Here are short descriptions of each system.
Thermal Energy Corp. (TECO) is a nonprofit corporation that serves
institutions on the Texas Medical Center’s 134-acre South Main campus.
TECO operates two plants with a combined capacity of more than
80,000 tons of chilled water and 761,400 lb/hr of steam. These plants
supply steam to 36 buildings ( 13. 8 million sq ft) and chilled water to 40
buildings ( 15. 1 million sq ft). TECO has the largest campus chilled-water
system in the United States, soon to grow even larger. The company
also maintains more than 16 MW of electrical generation for emergency
power. The Texas Medical Center includes 13 hospitals, two medical
schools, four nursing schools, two graduate schools of biomedical sciences, plus schools of dentistry, public health and pharmacy.
Courtesy Thermal Energy Corp.
TECO’s Central Plant produces both steam and chilled water and has six generators
totaling 14,080 k W of capacity for emergency use.
The Rice University Central
Plant, located on the beautiful
300-acre Rice University campus,
produces and delivers steam,
chilled water and electrical power
for use in almost all of the 3. 7
million sq ft of the university’s
buildings. Constructed in 1911,
the plant contains 135,000 lb/hr
of boiler capacity in two water- Rice University’s combined Central Plant/ Mechanical Lab building is the second oldest
tube heat-recovery steam gener- building on campus. The building’s Campanile
ators and two firetube boilers; Tower serves as both a smoke stack and a
10,000 tons of cooling capacity clock tower, making it a campus landmark.
in four York centrifugal chillers
and two Trane steam absorption chillers; and 7. 5 MW of power generation from two natural gas turbines (simple and combined-cycle cogeneration arrangements).
Courtesy Rice University.
As a result of Tropical Storm Allison in 2001, Baylor College of
Medicine suffered a loss of irreplaceable research data when its
below-grade research lab and central plant flooded with more than 15
ft of water, rendering the plant inoperable. Baylor proposed an innovative solution to the Federal Emergency Management Agency to install a
stand-by cooling system to ensure Baylor was never again compromised by high water. Due to lack of space in the crowded hospital
complex and a compressed construction schedule, Baylor selected a
modular system made by TAS of Houston. The package cooling plant
is comprised of a 5,000-ton system featuring two centrifugal chillers,
water pumps, electrical switchgear and controls system.
