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STEAM PLANT WORKS OUT FOR LAFAYETTE, LOUISIANA The Lafayette, La., /muter plant as seen fram the rent. Corrugated transite remnrahle icalls procide far future expansion. THE comparatively small DeepSouth city of Lafayette, Louisiana, had to be rapidly augmented. Space limitations precluded adding to the found the load on its generating plant diesel plant. So a new plant, at an 5000-sq ft divided water-box surface condensers. Although the plant is located less than 1000 ft from the increasing with surprising sudden other location, had to be considered. Vermillion River, a study revealed ness. A good bit of the load increase It was imperative that the plant be that the river flow could not be de was attributed to home air condition "on-the-linc" by the first part of the pended upon for cooling water pur ing, attic fans, and other fans, put summer of 1051. poses. Therefore, a 15,000-gpm 3-cell / into service during the summer by An economic study resulted in a cooling tower was installed. the 30,000 residents. And, of course, decision to install a steam plant in The Elliott surface condensers are, I: r when commercial establishments be corporating two 4000-kw turbine- of course, equipped with Elliott twin gan installing summer air condition generators. It was planned that the two-stage air ejectors and Elliott ing, competition built up this load diesel plant could help out during Crocker-VVheelcr motors drive the in a hum-. Further demand for elec heavy peak periods in the summer four circulating-water and four con tric power resulted from increased and would be used as a stand-by at densate pumps. Six Elliott C-3V production of rice, sugar, cotton, other times. A semi-outdoor design totally-enclosed fan-cooled motors yams, as well as industrial operations. was chosen for the steam plant. drive the draft fans. It became obvious that the ciry!s The photographs show the neat Barnard and Burk, of Baton Rouge, 2.3-kv diesel engine generating plant installation of one of the two Elliott La., were the consulting engineers. fon'Kiiwx. seniNi; lays PAGE