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T.B. Simon Power Plant is a multi-fuel cogeneration facility located on the East Lansing campus of Michigan State University. With a peak electrical output of 99.3 megawatts and a pressurized steam generation capacity of 1.3 million pounds per hour, it is one of the 500 largest power plants and the largest on-campus coal-burning plant in the United States. The Simon Power Plant is the principal energy provider to the 45,000-student main campus, meeting approximately 97% of all energy demand. Pressurized steam is distributed throughout the campus through an extensive network of tunnels to provide both heating and cooling to approximately 500 instructional, research, and residential buildings located on more than . Electrical power is distributed through the same tunnels, making the campus relatively immune from outages due to weather. The primary fuel for T. B. Simon is coal with natural gas as an alternative, although with the 1993 addition of Unit No. 4 the plant acquired the capability of burning biofuel. Simon's east smokestack identifies its operator with the letters M S U in white brick. == History == The Simon facility is the fifth power plant to be located on the Michigan State campus. Its six generating units were built in four stages:〔http://pp.msu.edu/index.cfm/power-and-water/a-brief-history-of-the-tb-simon-power-plant/〕 * 1965 - Units No. 1 and No. 2 - Dry bottom, wall-fired (coal, natural gas) * 1973 - Unit No. 3 - Dry bottom, wall-fired (coal, natural gas) * 1993 - Unit No. 4 - Circulating fluidized bed (coal, natural gas, blended coal/biofuel) * 2006 - Unit No. 5 - Dry bottom, wall-fired (coal, natural gas) * 2006 - Unit No. 6 - Natural Gas fired turbine with dry low-NOx burner (natural gas)〔2009 EIA-860 http://www.eia.gov/cneaf/electricity/page/eia860.html〕 The $23 million 2006 addition was a Best In Class combined cycle plant consisting of a conventional pulverized-coal steam turbine/generator (Unit 5) and a natural gas combustion turbine with heat-recovery steam turbine (Unit 6). Unit 6 gives the Simon plant Black start capability in the event of a general power outage.〔http://www.christmanco.com/portfolio.asp?id=68&cat_id=30〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「T. B. Simon Power Plant」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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