Water and Stormwater Meeting Notes 19 February 2019
Attainability of iCAP goals and a review of the objectives to be applied to the upcoming 2020 iCAP were discussed.
Attainability of iCAP goals and a review of the objectives to be applied to the upcoming 2020 iCAP were discussed.
The attached document contains the meeting minutes for 6 February 2019.
The attached document is the meeting minutes from 7 February 2019.
All, This past week I interviewed another student worker and had a training with a couple others. Built bikes, test rode bikes, organized bikes, too.
I pulled a bunch of bad wheels out of the back of the shop and had volunteers scrap those. Also had volunteers/staff overhaul wheels for future builds/sales. The idea is that once we get busy, having a used wheel that’s ready to go on a bike will hopefully significantly cut down on stand time for both patrons and shop builds.
This week is Agora Days. Phillip, from the Bike Project/Uni will bring some University High School students over to the Bike Center Tuesday – Friday from 11am – 1pm and we’ll teach some bike skills! Should be a good time!
Numbers:
Visitors: 49
Sales: $114.32
Memberships: 1 for $30
Tires/tubes: 5 for $21
Thanks!
Hi Pete and Shawn--
Zero waste activities for the past week were
Best regards,
Marya Ryan
Good morning,
Week 3’s meeting was a very informative and productive with the help of Mike, who is the director of budgeting and resource planning for the energy services division. Mike was able to help confirm and teach us about what is exactly happening at the chiller plants. He caught us up to date on what is being metered and where to find certain information. Together we brainstormed ideas on how we can determine a metric to measure the water consumption of each chiller plant. This included the metered water going into the cooling tower, water going into the chiller loop, and comparing that number to the total chilled water produced. Alongside this comparison the BTUs will also be monitored to see how much energy is being used to produce all of this.
There are a couple of tasks that I will be getting done for week 4’s meeting. These include and not limited to:
This week was successful and looking forward to the information that will be collected in the following weeks. The attached document is some notes on UIUC cooling towers, Abbott, chiller plants, CHP plants, and our meeting.
Thank you,
Austin Jung
All, As one student staffer pointed out, we got a taste of summer last week. We had a few swells of genuine busyness. Odd for this time of year—but very welcome!
I had a training session last week with a new hire and will have an interview today and another training on Friday this week. I made some progress on the shop builds that the students have been building. I’ll tackle some more of the wheel pile this week in addition to working through the builds.
I am working with my student staff to get Friday Rides revived in time for spring/summer. Student staff will also lead a Fix-a-Flat class in partnership with F&S Sustainability. More updates on both next week as I work through logistics and planning for each of those events.
Thanks!
Visitors: 54
Sales: $384
Memberships: 3 for $90
Bikes (refurb): 1 for $200
Jake Benjamin
Campus Bike Center Manager
Hi Pete and Shawn—
Zero waste activity this week was catching up on emails. Morgan OKed my proposed updates to the glove recycling page of the iCAP portal (and the PDF flier with parallel content). I had intended to make the updates yesterday but fell ill. I’m better this morning, so I’ll plan to get them wrapped up early this evening.
Best regards,
Marya Ryan
Natural History Building recognized by U.S. Green Building Council. Historic classroom and research building receives LEED Gold status after renovation. See attached or follow the link to read the whole article.
https://las.illinois.edu/news/2019-02-08/natural-history-building-recogn...
Good morning all,
Austin here and yesterday’s meeting with Morgan White and Sarthak Prasad went well. I reviewed articles on how power plants use freshwater and the ways to reduce their consumption. The biggest factor in water use at power plants is their cooling system. The metric for measuring this is gallon per KWh and it’s categorized by their withdrawal, consumption, and discharge. The different types of cooling systems have their own pros and cons. For example wet recirculating cooling is good because it doesn’t withdrawal a lot of water but it consumes more than the other methods. Then an example of an advanced cooling system is a hybrid system that used air and a cooling tower to combine the advantages of a cooling tower and the resourcefulness of using a dry system. The draw backs of using only air is it makes the thermal conversion efficiency go down and increases operational costs. More details can be found in the attached file.
We proceeded to continue research on how our power plant and chiller plants operate by looking at the water and energy consumption of the billing logs. We plan on meeting with Mike next week to gain more insight on the chiller plants and their water consumption. Then we looked at the piping layouts for the Universities potable and cooling water pipelines.
To further our research I will finish reviewing some more articles on cooling tower water consumption. Then find articles with more detail on how cogeneration plants work and what metrics are used to measure their energy and water consumption. There should be more data on this from different European studies because they have similar systems like ours at Abbott. Lastly I will familiarize myself with our systems by researching the chiller plants and Abbott information given on the Facility & Services webpage.
Thanks,
Austin Jung
Attached are the minutes from the iWG meeting on February 7, 2019.
These are the meeting minutes from February 7, 2019.
$230,000 of funding from the Carbon Credit Sales Fund was approved for Energy Piles at Hydro-Systems Lab by Evan DeLucia and Mohamed Attalla
Purpose of Project:
"This project will install 8 energy piles in the foundation of the Hydro-Systems Lab on campus, and provide new research capabilities and a geothermal exchange system for reduction of energy demand from that building." -Morgan White (2/6/19)
An email of the approval is linked below.
RailSplitter Wind Farm provided the January 2019 Buyer's Share amounts by hour, totaling 2706.7 Megawatt hours. See the attached file.
Simon taught 15 sessions with around 100 attendants total, over the 15 weeks. The sessions were Mondays from at 6:30. The sessions began on 9/5/2017 and concluded at the end of the fall semester.
The manager of the Campus Bike Center, Jake Benjamin, will help us seek another qualified student to teach the class this spring.
On Tuesday, February 5th, the eGen SWATeam had their second meeting of the Spring '19 semester.
Updates on stormwater-related projects were mentioned, including an REU project to organize potential stormwater credits. Some points on campus were remarked as having successful or unsuccessful stormwater infrastructure.
Please see attached the ridership data for January 2019.
Illini Hillel Center for Jewish Life on Campus (the Center) has been working toward creating a more sustainable Center for the last few years. Starting with a student driven initiative to purchase and install a filtered, reusable water bottle filler, the Center has been working to improve its environmental impact in more ways. We would like to prepare a locally sourced Sabbath dinner for our community, using that time together to educate the community about our sustainability initiatives.