Vanderbilt University
Power Plant and Substation Expansion
Nashville, TN

ICT provided engineering design for the cogeneration plant addition to a central steam plant consisting of two 5.225 MW natural gas fired combustion turbine generators with 100,000 pounds-per-hour heat recovery steam generators. 

• Upgraded existing steam plant auxiliary equipment from 250,000 to 450,000 PPH
• Major expansion of campus 13.8 kV substation and addition of new 30/40/50 MVA 69/13.8 kV transformer
• Installed steam, condensate and 13.8 kV power in 8'-6" diameter rock-bored tunnel 100’ below surface from the cogeneration plant to new Children's Hospital
• Tunnel length was over 4,000 feet