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The engineering team at NEIU, masked up in style.
Once EndoTherm is introduced into the system, that’s mostly
it — the savings begin to accrue. There is a minor bit of maintenance,
according to Gehrke, to make sure everything is running
properly. “We still need our service to make sure they don’t get
a leak, they don’t add fresh water to dilute it down — that type
of thing. So there’s still some service involved, but it’s pretty
good that you put something in, then you get results. And pretty
quickly, too.”
Other Benefits and Applications
do you two things — not only will it save you raw dollars, it’ll
reduce gas consumption and BTUs, and then ultimately reduce
the CO2 emissions, which is going to be a bigger thing in the
future, with climate change.”
To learn more about the Water Energy Treatment Saving System
and what it can do for your closed-loop heating system, reach
out to Greg Gehrke at: Gehrke Technology Group,
1050 N. Rand Road, Wauconda, Ill., (847) 878-0716, or email
ggehrke@gehrketech.com.
While everyone loves being able to cut costs, doing so while reducing
carbon emissions is another major benefit of the WETSS
program and EndoTherm technology. “The other key savings is
the CO2e — carbon dioxide emissions — reduction in pounds,”
Gehrke says. In the case of NEIU, he explains, “the heating degree
days were measured against the Chicago heating degree
days that are measured at O’Hare airport, so you can compare
one year to the next year. That was all calculated out, and once
we did all that, the university saved 30 grand — it was our conservative
number — and then 300,000 lbs of CO2 emissions.”
Of course, the question is going to come up as to whether or
not EndoTherm technology will also work in chilled water loop
situations. “We’re working on that. We have a program for that,”
Gehrke says. “It has been used in the U.K. by Heathrow Airport.
It’s been used in Dubai on a 54-story chilled water loop. In Canada,
it’s extensively used by two of the big Canadian gas-supply
companies. They’ve already approved it as a rebate program.”
This is one of the most attractive facets of the WETSS program
— its connection to available rebates from the energy companies
that serve our facilities. “A Pennsylvania gas company is about to
approve it as a rebate program, and there’s one in Michigan that
we’re working on,” Gehrke says. “We’re going to be talking to
both Nicor Gas and ComEd to put it into their programs. So it’ll
In addition to the WETSS program, NEIU generates power on the roof of its
P.E. Complex via a system of solar panels.
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