Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1902-11-20
nv. yaiiey's Heating PLAN

Heating plant:
The Missouri V.l!,, plant now furn.
ishes heas FIR eighty houses including
res d .nce;, stores and churches, some
on which are half u mile distance from
the plant and at an elevation of eighty
five feet aboveit The total radiation
now supplied with heat is about 10000
square feet, while the present plant
has capacity of GO,OgO square feet.
In addition to Its hot water heat, the
Missouri Valley company furnishes
steam heat direct for tho $500 square
feet of radiation in the opera house
two blocks distant from the power
honse. With all this RADIATOR. the
plant has never failed to keep the
buildings at comfortable tempera-
ture during even the severest winter
weather.
A yearly charge of 90 cents 8 quare
foot of radiation is made by the Mis-
souri, Valley company for lis heat and
1T is estimated that one square foot of
radiation will heat 30 cubic feet of air.
This statement, may not however, help
the average man in figuring out saw
ing in his coal bill. 1t is rather diff
cult to make u satisfactory comparison
of the cost of Nesting house with ra-
diation from the c.tnral plant and
with stoves and furnaces With the
central plant system nearly every
room in the house has to be sup
piled with radiators and as the charge
is fixed one yearly for each square
foot of radiation installed whether
used or not, the whole house Is gener-
ally kept heated for the cost is no
greater.
On the other hand the users of
stoves, furnaces and individual heating
plants are accustomed to heat only the
rooms as and when desired. Thus on
the first glance the cost of securing
heat from the central plant may seem
greater to the individual consumers,
it must be remembered that far more
heat is being secure d for the money.
To warm house with stoves or seper
ate heating plants in manner similar
to the heat provided by the central
plant would undoubtedly be far more
costly. 1t must also be taken Into con-
sideration that the central heating
plant provides heat the year around
and can he used to warm the house at
any time, especially in the early fall and
spring when it would hardly pay to
start the stoves OF fire up the furnaces.
COSTING OF THE HEATING
Even with the heating plant at Mis-
souri, Valley, different patrons various
ly figure the cost of heating their
houses owing to the different amounts
of radiation installed. The cost of
heating an eight-room house varies ac-
cording to their figures from $40 to
800 year, with an average close to
$40. President Edgecomb of the Mis-
souri, Valley company estimates that
Iaroom l2xl4 feet with 10 foot CELL
ling will require 100 feet of radiation
which would make the heating of this
room cost 800 year. This, however
is generally considered rather high
figure. In addition to the charge for
heating radiators charge of So a
year is made heating water for bath
tub. Patrons are not allowed to draw
| any OF the hot water from the radia-
tors, but its temperature is sullic iently
high to heat other water to the boiling
point.
According to the Missouri Valley
1 figures the cost of installing radiators
is 40 cents square foot which price
includes the complete establishment of
the system in connection with the hot
water mains from the street curb line
TO place the necessary radiation in an
leight-room house would therefore cost
close to 800. Here is the formula by
which the Missouri Valley company
determines sthe amount of radiation
needed in any room, which formula is
said to be fast proven and of general
acceptance throughout the United
States:
"To cubic contents of room add
square feet of exposed wall plus eight
times the square feet of glass, which
sum divide by 30 and the result will be
the number of square feet of radia-
ton needed in the given room"
| USES TIE EXHAUST ST EAN.
| The Missouri Valley heating plant is
operated principally with the exhaust
steam from two $50 horse power en-
gines which are used to create the
power for the electric light and power
plant. AS before stated boilers are
drought into use to aid in helting the
water during extreme cold weather
and fourth large boiler has just been
Installed, but these are used chiefly for
the electric light and power plant. In
moderate weather. the exhaust steam
from one of the $50 horse power en-
gines furnishes sufficient heat for the
entire system. That this heretofore
waste steam is being turned to good
profit is shown by President Edge
combs estimate that the yearly ex.
haust from single 150.horse power
engine has value of $4,000 year and
can carry $4,000 feet of radiation.
| The Yaryan system of hot water
heat as used at Missouri Valley is said