在西雅图公共事业公司持续提供的技术和财政支持下 华盛顿大学开展了一项侵略性和高度成功的水。 保护计划。自2000年达到峰值，超过2 MGD以来 西雅图UW设施的消耗量现在已经减少了20%以上。这是 以2004年的费率计算，每年为UW节省150多万美元。作为补充 这些措施将在未来两年内完成，预计用水量将下降 另外10%。 UW实施的主要节水措施包括冷却塔 升级、将水冷制冷机组转换为风冷、泄漏和故障 设备维修、无水小便器安装、低流量厕所安装、， 用风冷机组更换水冷真空泵、灌溉升级、， 安装节水洗衣机，升级蒸汽灭菌器和蒸馏器。 在所有这些措施中，不包括故障设备的维修，最引人注目的是成本 有效的节约可归因于添加或收集冷却水保护套件 蒸汽灭菌器。 本文详细介绍了华盛顿大学的测试过程。 目前，对各种冷却水存水器模型进行了评估 可获得的包括桌子。

With ongoing technical and financial support provided by Seattle Public Utilities, the University of Washington has undertaken an aggressive and highly successful water conservation program. Since peaking in the year 2000 at over 2 MGD, water consumption for UW facilities in Seattle has now been reduced by over 20%. This has resulted in savings to UW of over $1.5 million per year at 2004 rates. As additional measures are completed over the next two years, water consumption is projected to drop an additional 10%. Primary water conservation measures implemented by UW include cooling tower upgrades, conversion of water cooled refrigeration units to air cooled, leak and failed equipment repair, installation of waterless urinals, installation of low flow toilets, replacement of water cooled vacuum pumps with air cooled units, irrigation upgrades, installation of water efficient clothes washers, and upgrades to steam sterilizers and stills. Of all of these measures, excluding repair of failed equipment, the most dramatic and cost effective savings can be attributed to addition or trap cooling water conservation kits to the steam sterilizers. This paper presents details of the testing process used at University of Washington to evaluate the various models of sterilizer trap cooling water conservation kits currently available. Includes tables.