Electrical Rooms Are Very Important For Building Operation, Providing A Hub To
Electrical Rooms Are Very Important For Building Operation, Providing A Hub To
Electrical Rooms Are Very Important For Building Operation, Providing A Hub To
supply electrical power for equipment. These rooms also contain key protection
systems, and in larger installations they often include transformers. The main
advantage of a well-designed electrical room is providing a central location
where technical staff members can manage and service building power
systems.
The general requirements for electrical rooms are covered in Article 110 of the
National Electrical Code (2011 Edition). This blog post references some
requirements, but its purpose is to be informational, not to be used in place of the
NEC. The best recommendation is to work with qualified design professionals, who
are familiarized with all applicable codes and standards for each project.
The service end box is also selected based on load calculation, and it is normally
installed on an external wall. This simplifies the installation of service wiring,
providing a convenient but protected entrance to the building.
Mechanical Rooms
A mechanical room or a boiler room is a
room or space in a building dedicated to
the mechanical equipment and its
associated electrical equipment, as
opposed to rooms intended for human
occupancy or storage. Unless a building
is served by a centralized heating plant,
the size of the mechanical room is usually
proportional to the size of the building. A
small building or home may have at most
a utility room but in large buildings
mechanical rooms can be of
considerable size, often requiring multiple
rooms throughout the building, or even
occupying one or more complete floors.
Air handlers
Boilers
Chillers
Heat exchangers
Water heaters and tanks
Water pumps (for domestic, heating/cooling, and firefighting water)
Main distribution piping and valves
Sprinkler distribution piping and pumps
Back-up electrical generators
Elevator machinery
Clean MRF
A clean MRF accepts recyclable materials that have already been separated at
the source from municipal solid waste generated by either residential or
commercial sources. There are a variety of clean MRFs. The most common are
single stream where all recyclable material is mixed, or dual stream MRFs, where
source-separated recyclables are delivered in a mixed container stream
(typically glass, ferrous metal, aluminum and other non-ferrous metals, PET [No.1]
and HDPE [No.2] plastics) and a mixed paper stream including corrugated
cardboard boxes, newspapers, magazines, office paper and junk mail. Material
is sorted to specifications, then baled, shredded, crushed, compacted, or
otherwise prepared for shipment to market.
Wet MRF
MRF layout
Once the unit operations to process the materials are selected, the equipment
needed to carry out the operations must be chosen and installed. The
capabilities, reliability, maintenance requirements, flexibility, safety, efficiency,
environmental effects, market specifications, and costs of the various alternatives
will govern the selection of equipment for the facility. Although there are many
possible combinations for grouping the separation processes within the facility,
the operations should follow certain guidelines:
These guidelines allow the entire operation to continue functioning if there are
any equipment failures or unexpected materials in the stream. Equipment
redundancy and easy maintenance are other factors that will help prevent the
need to ever shut down operations, but will add to the overall costs of the facility.
Facility Design
A utility room is a room within a house where equipment not used in day-to-day
activities is kept. "Utility" refers to an item which is designed for usefulness or
practical use, so in turn most of the items kept in this room have functional
attributes. A utility room is generally the area where laundry is done, and is the
descendant of the scullery. Utility room is more commonly used in British English,
while North American English generally refer to this room as a Uses
The utility room has several uses but typically functions as an area to do laundry.
This room contains laundry equipment such as a washing machine, tumble dryer,
ironing boards and clothes iron. The room is also used for closet organization and
storage. The room would normally contain a second coat closet which is used to
store seasonal clothing such as winter coats or clothing which are no longer used
daily. Storage spaces would contain other appliances which would generally be
in the kitchen if it was in usage daily. Furnaces and the water heater are sometime
incorporated to the room as well. Shelving and trash may sometimes be seen at
this area as not to congest the other parts of the house. laundry room, except in
the American Southeast. In Australian English laundry is the usual term.