Hybrid Chiller Provides Water, Energy Savings for Plastics Manufacturer
An innovative Hybrid Chiller combines a chiller and an air-blast fluid cooler to provide extraordinary water and energy savings for a major plastics facility in Canada.
System requirement
The customer’s initial requirement called for most of the load to be chilled water type cooling, as the temperature requirement was stated to be within the range of 7-25°C. After a thorough review and understanding of the customer’s process, it was suggested that most of the load could successfully operate at higher supply temperatures. This simple suggestion resulted in the majority of the load being satisfied with ambient produced free coolingrather than high horsepower mechanical cooling. The result was now only 22% of the load would require a chiller supplying mechanical cooling at 7°C while the balance could be satisfied with cooling at 30-35°C.