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STEAM BOILERS FOR colleges & universities
Miura’s Modular & Flexible Boiler System Fits

Educational campuses can be sprawling collections of semi-interconnected buildings and facilities. Ranging across acres of land, many city blocks and many types of building means campus load times may vary widely when it comes to generating steam for dormitories, laboratories, and classrooms. Trying to pick steam boilers for colleges & universities that can accommodate the huge swing in demand from classes in-session to school breaks, as well as seasonal changes, can stress a traditional central boiler system whereas Miura’s modular, quick response is designed to handle it.

With larger, de-centralized campuses, some educational institutions are contemplating the replacement of their central steam plants with a more decentralized approach, placing boilers closer to the point-of-use. Miura’s small, modular design is ideal for this application. Read on for more opportunities for steam in college and university campuses.

Education & Governmental Facilities
The Roll of Steam in a Comfortable Education

The biggest job of boilers on a college campus is to provide heat and hot water for the entire campus. Steam plants at these institutions are usually connected both to the hot water supply and the heating systems campus-wide. There can be a demand on the boilers to produce up to hundreds of thousands of pounds of steam every hour. For even small campuses have dozens of buildings, which need heat and hot water over the course of the day. That doesn’t mean demand doesn’t spike, ebb and flow. Mornings are usually the coldest part of the day so heating every building on campus takes priority. This is also when students living in on-campus dorms are making demands on the hot water supply with morning showers making morning often the busiest time of day for university boiler systems. The demand for steam tends to drop in the afternoon and evening once most buildings have been able to heat up making the need for a flexible system apparent.

Students seem to run on their stomachs and college cafeterias, cafes and food courts must prepare thousands of meals every day to keep up. These facilities also rely on the boiler room to provide hot water and steam, both to prepare food and to clean and sterilize utensils and dishes. The campus may also include snack bars at student hangouts, which also need hot water and steam. Thus, the demand for steam on campus tends to increase during mealtimes and flow around class schedules.

Education & Governmental Facilities
How Miura Fits into Campus Life

Major colleges and universities turn to Miura for efficient campus steam boiler solutions that reduce emissions and promote outstanding energy savings. As the world leader in ultra low-NOx modular, on-demand steam solutions, Miura offers cost-effective installations that are reliable, safe, and highly adaptive to fluctuating steam demands. Our uniquely designed steam boilers systems are compact, which makes them particularly ideal for universities looking to replace their antiquated boiler rooms with an eco-friendlier solution that saves space and energy.

Producing the quantity of steam needed for a university campus can be a costly endeavor, so a fuel-efficient a boiler system is imperative for most schools. Conventional boilers require large amounts of natural gas or fuel oil to operate, not to mention the slow startup times require the boilers to stay running idle when not in use. Miura’s smaller, modular watertube boiler systems require far less fuel without sacrificing BTU output, and they can be easily powered down when steam isn’t needed. Most campuses experience at least a 20 percent reduction in energy costs in this manner.

If a campus or institution relies on one or two large fire tube boilers for their steam needs they could be in trouble if one of those boilers breaks down or needs to go offline for routine maintenance. Even if it’s summertime and there are fewer people on campus, it’s difficult to go without steam for an extended period of time. Rather than take this risk, many universities are choosing to replace large conventional boilers with a series of smaller modular watertube boilers. This type of configuration ensures that steam heat is always available, even if one or two modules go down for servicing. In addition, modular boilers also save money because they can fire up and power down as needed to meet fluctuating demands.

Universities and colleges are often more aware than other companies of their carbon footprint. While conventional boilers tend to put out high greenhouse gas emissions, Miura’s boilers are low-NOx and are engineered to be low in greenhouse gas emission. This can contribute to lowering the campus’ overall greenhouse emissions and help them hit targeted green initiatives.