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rhitlMiiMH. spring . POWERFAX 934 month or so afterward. It runs 24 hours a day, being shut down only occasionally between the hours of midnight and 4 A.M. In consider ing the installation of this engine- generator unit, single-valve, four- valve and unaflow engine types -were thoroughly studied, but the Elliott four-valve engine best fit ted into the heat balance scheme in this institution as it does in most of the other state institu tions. The engine operates on 160- lb. steam and exhausts at atmos pheric pressure in the summer for The Elliott l}0-kuf. engine-generator unit {Jour-valve engine, generates all electric power andfurnishes beating steam for The CoU at Cambridge, Mims. wbtcb ileptics cooking and hot water heating. In the winter a heating load is added and the engine operates against 2 buildings for patients, garage, shop valve engine driving an Elliott lbs. back pressure. building, and power plant. On the alternating-current generator, il The third engine installation, adjoining 700-acre farm are the lustrated, was installed. Even to which reference has been made, usual farm buildings of a large though the maximum peak load was the Elliott 150-kw. four-valve institution. The present popula at the present time does not go engine direct-connected to an El tion of the institution is about above 80 kw., it is saving the in- liott direct-current generator 1400. The electrical load consists ' stitution considerable money to which was installed at the State of the lighting load for the various generate its own power. The new Asylum at Anoka. Its duties are buildings, power for a baking plant unit was installed in December very much the same as at Will- and similar requirements, auxil ; 1932 and went into operation a mar. iary power, etc. All power required in the institution is generated and exhaust steam is used for cooking and hot water requirements in the summer and for heating in the winter. The chief engineer of the plant, Mr. Arnold Bakken, has been with the institution since its inception. The Colony for Epileptics at Cambridge is a comparatively new institution with a present population of around 600 people. Originally only a boiler plant was installed and power was purchased. (This was one of the very few Minnesota State Institutions to purchase current.) An engine room had been provided but no gener ating unit was installed until 1932. The institution had grown to the point where it was found desirable to generate its own pow er and the Elliott 150-kw. four- The switchboard at Cambridge, furnished by Elliott Company. S& vi. I * * * 27 CRIMDEBN00000221