McMurdo's power station. The heat
exchangers tap into the generator coolant systems to recover waste
heat, transferring the heat to a glycol solution which is pumped to
other buildings at McMurdo, where other heat exchangers take the
heat from the glycol and heat the buildings. These other buildings
have additional furnaces as well.
Waste heat in the form of glycol
leaves at 190 F, and returns at 178 F - a 12 F drop.
The
new generators in the water plant (as yet unused) also have heat
exchangers to capture heat from the exhaust, but the older system
does not have that.