Greenhouse uses power plant’s waste heat DANVILLE - Kenneth G. Bryfogle Jr., a northeastern Pennsylvania commercial greenhouse operator, is using a unique heating system for his facilities near Danville. Waste heat from the Montour Steam Electric Station of Penn sylvania Power & light Co., located 10 miles north of Danville in Montour County, is used to warm Bryfogle’s three-acre greenhouse complex. An un derground system is used to carry warm condenser-cooling water from the plant to the greenhouse, located about a half mile away. “The project is designed to demonstrate how energy can be saved by tapping heat that has been previously wasted,” said Heinz G. Pfeiffer, PP&L’s manager-Technology & Energy Assessment. “The experiment has great potential in helping to find prac tical and cost-effective ways of conserving fossil fuels. The production of electricity results in large amounts of heat being rejected through the cooling system of a generating station. This discharge heat is usually either vented to the atmosphere or discharged through cooling water. A 20-mch diameter pipeline, buried three feet underground, transfers the warm condenser cooling water from the plant to the greenhouse. The system uses 7,000 feet of piping to establish a loop to supply the warm water to the greenhouse and return it to the power plant. SCALES LIVESTOCK SCALES For HO9 Operations TRUCK & PLATFORM SCALES ALSO AVAILABLE GARBER SCALE COMPANY 121 Witmer Rd. Lancaster, Pa. 17602 Phone: 717-3931708 ALL SCALES STATE APPROVED. PLANNING LIQUID MANUK STORAGE? We Will Custom Design Your System to Meet your Needs Grain and Foraga Structural Aval labia For immodiata Fraction Il ■ ■ ■ ■ Ptease CKp t Mail Coupon to ■ ■ ■§ ■ ■ ■ KNN DUTCH FARM SYSTEMS. INC. LF 5/2 | 1730Hlfhwar 72 North, LahanoaPa 170*2 ■ ■ lam interested in * m I * □ Liquid Manure Store** ■ pi Please add my name " to yaur marlin* Rtt NAME ADDRESS CITY STATE TELEPHONE (include area code) NO. OF BEEF DAIRY _ Diagram shows a unique warm floor heating system which is being used in a greenhouse complex near Danville. The greenhouse facility is heated with discharge heat from the Montour Steam Electric Station of the Pennsylvania Power & Light Co. An underground pipe system carries warm con inside the greenhouse, 3/4-inch total almost 24 miles if placed end diameter plastic pipes are em- to-end. bedded in gravel just beneath the The warm water flows from the porous concrete floor. The pipes, supply pipeline to the pipes spaced about a foot apart, would beneath the greenhouse floor. rn HtylJC* or Cem Sil«(« Stone* U Rtptodnc my akt or broken bottom unkuder wHhth* Untie ZIP HOGS \ x !-=?■ -J \ I Here's What You Get For Less Than 15* A Week! / /» f : '■/V V ★ OUR ADVERTISERS use the pages of LANCASTER FARMING to let yoi know about the equipment, real estate & prospective jobs they havi available. They let you know about the best buys and the latest product! to make your farm more productive and efficient! Our total farm coverage also gives you NEWS (including Dairy & DHIA Reports) ...FEATURES...MARKET REPORTS... FREE MAILBOX MARKET...and much, much more! '** *•**»!>■ If**- , \K THURSDAY. I —jsss r =E::r^=^ P.O. Box 366. Lltitz, PA 17543 717626-11640 r 394-3047 -T H densor-cooling water from the power plant to the { house. The water heats the floor of the facility to abo degrees. Also shown are a cross section of the greenl and detail of the floor heating system. 4S / When the water reaches th< greenhouse, it is between 95 anc 115 degrees Fahrenheit. The watei At LANCASTER FARMING, we think we do a good job of keeping you in formed...and we have over 39,000 paid subscribers who think so too! y?'C\ RETURN HPE s's£.s' s' V HOT WATER ■',SS / x SUPPLY PIPE I? (Turn to Page Dl5)
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