Quantum Engineering and Development, Inc.

Capitol Campus Department of Information System Energy Services (2001)

$647,000 project cost, $63,000 annual energy savings, $167,000 utility incentive.

Scope

Installed a heat recovery system to recover heat rejected by the computer cooling system, and use it to preheat the ventilation air for the building. Piping, pumps, heat exchangers and sophisticated controls were used to transfer the heat to where it is most needed. Also added heating systems to areas that were in need of additional heat.

Notable Facts

All work performed in a 24 hour per day data center without any disruption to the occupants or the computers.
Improved the redundancy of the existing heat rejection system for the computers. Improved and added to the energy management control system, increasing system reliability and failure reporting capabilities

“Thank you for the outstanding work you did on the DIS/NRB Heat Recovery Measure (ECM) Team… Quantum Engineering, thanks for a job well done."
Governor, State of Washington

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Efficiency Grants

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