120 General Electric domestic oil furnaces in array
Unique Multi·Unit Heating Plant
The unique multi-unit central heating plant, consisting of 120 of the now familiar General Electric domestic oil furnaces all arranged to operate automatically in a single battery, which has been installed at Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts, is now in regular service. Scientific American Feb 1935
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Wouldn't a couple large oil boilers on short vents have the same effect as 100 small oil boilers on short vents? Wasn't the tall vent just to spread the soot from the coal over a larger area?
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I saw a boiler system designed similar to this at a High School east of Pittsburgh, Pa. about 35 years ago that had about 40 small boilers connected to a staging control. What a horrible design. Yes it worked but the maintenance cost was extremely high. They had a lightning strike near the school that "fried" most of the programming controls that were on each boiler. They were MH R7800 controls.
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I wonder how long that system at Mount Holyoke lasted, and what they replaced it with?
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