XP's Places - A tour of the SAIT Power lab

 

Currently I am a Power Engineering student at SAIT (2004-2006).  SAIT is a decent sized campus, with about 65000 full and part time students, and over 2300 courses avaliable.

Below is a little pictour (picture tour) of most of the SAIT campus, with lots of pictures of the SAIT power lab.

Lets begin then, with the C-Train station at SAIT


The C-Train station in the foreground and the Alberta College of Arts in the background.  The SAIT campus is right next door to the ACA.

This is  the pedestrian crossing at the SAIT Station


Looking back at the SAIT station from the other side


The C-Train Station pedestrian crossing at the other side


The C-train goes all the way to downtown Calgary, this is the bridge crossing 10th street (I think)

Just outside of the Ctrain station is a big soccer field and the old Heart building's Heritage hall.  Heritage hall was built back in 1905 or so, and SAIT expanded it by putting in a modern structure attached to the back of it


A close up look at Heritage hall, Senator Burns building is on the right


Senator Burns building complex

Just behind Heritage Hall is the attached Heart building, you can see the transition from old bricks to the new building

A tree just outside Heritage hall

The back of the newer Heart building, inside is a lot of class rooms, a big lunch hall, and the library

Inside the glassy structure of the Heart building

The lunch hall of the heart building, you can see the other "outside" wall of Heritage hall, which is intergrated into Heart building

And a close up look at Heritage hall's wall, there are a couple of pedestrian bridges connecting to the inside of the building


The lunch hall below and classrooms on both sides, and Heritage hall just up front


Near the Heart building is the Senator Burns building, which houses mostly girls, I think!  Anyway all the girls come to classes here, probably learning how to sew.


Across the street from Senator Burns are the local campus residence.  The new building on the right and the old (and currently abandoned at 2005) on the left


And right by the Residence is the Thomas Riley building, which contains mostly stinky guys mumbling about "S" and "F" all the time.


The study and lunch hall


The lunch hall on first floor

SAIT Power Lab


Inside this building is the SAIT Powerlab, which is called the TransAlta Epi Center, whatever that means


Inside the Power Lab is a fully functional John Inglis boiler, a steam turbine connected to an electrical generator, which can produce power and supply it back to the grid.  Also in this room is a hot water heating boiler, a turbine model, and a small fire tube steam boiler


Just right next door is another fully functional Boiler called the "Volcano", the Volcano boiler room also houses the Moores Turbine and generator unit.


The side of the volcano boiler


Housed on the second floor of the Volcano boiler room is an air conditioned control room


Right behind the control room is the Moores turbine and generator unit.


The control panel for Volcano boiler, all of the functions can be controlled inside the control room as well.  (the handsome bloke is Kyle Sullivan)


The oh shit button for Volcano boiler


Volcano boiler alarm message display


Volcano boiler superheater temperature and Drum level display


The 1960 style Moores turbine control panel


Fire inside the Volcano boiler!


The non return steam shut off valve for the Volcano boiler

 

17/12/05

 

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