[BC] Power Glitch on Mt. Wilson

[Mike McCarthy]

It's grandfathered in from nearly 25 years ago. It's my understanding 
they can have 4 drums on the floor of Jet A and have priority on the 
elevator when they need to cycle fuel up.  I don't know the 
consumption rate.

Another station there has 625 gallon day tank to hold it's diesel 
fuel.  Code doesn't allow for a full sized tank to he housed on any 
floor but the ground level or below floors. That day tank is the 
biggest day tank I know of. That station is 2nd in line and uses about 
40 gallons an hour in a 500KW CAT.  So they too need to cycle fuel up 
by the drum at a drum every hour or so. 

I think the code allows two or three drums to be brought up at a time 
with no empties to be stored anywhere but the ground level.

MM

> ------ At 02:44 PM 1/18/2006, RLO2L at aol.com wrote: -------
> 
> >They  have a jet turbine powered genset here at Sears to keep at 
least one
> >TX  going as well as newly built 2nd site at Hancock.
> 
> >Is that why we smell jet-A exhaust in the downtown loop of Chicago 
from  time
> >to time! (;>)
> 
> I wonder how many 55 gallon drums they have to cart 100+ floors in 
> the service elevator? Is it really Jet-A or natural gas? I can't 
> imagine a city code allowing something that explosive in an occupied 
> building. Diesel, yes, anything more combustible and I'd move out of 
> the building.
> 
> Rich
> 
> 
> Rich Wood
> Rich Wood Multimedia
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