How Wake Forest University’s South Chiller Plant upgrade sets a new standard for campus infrastructure – boosting cooling capacity, preserving campus land, and blending cutting-edge engineering with iconic architecture.
This upgrade will replace major plant components, including chillers, cooling towers, primary pumps, and the energy-management system, with high-efficiency technology and artificial intelligence-ready automation.
Harnessing Trane’s systems knowledge and expertise, the chiller plant controller converts complex programming into a simplified, efficient solution that can be customized to meet unique needs, a press release from the company said.
Chillers use the principles of thermodynamics to remove heat from a conditioned space. But “chiller” is a broad term that encompasses system configurations, refrigeration technologies, and methods of rejecting captured heat. Experts take a closer look.
Campus physical plants that have become internets of things — requiring cloud-based management, machine learning, and visualization tools — could serve as more than unseen controllers of the classroom environment. They could be the classroom.
For buildings that have up to three chillers with a combined cooling capacity of 400 to 2,000 tons
October 4, 2016
Optimum Energy has released OptimumEDGE™, a patented, quick-start HVAC optimization solution designed to shave chiller plant energy use by 13 percent on average — and cut water use as well — without affecting building operations or occupant comfort, said the company.
Waste Management is seeing about a 100 kWh drop in monthly power utilization
August 3, 2015
Data centers continue to evolve and become more efficient. The need for efficient HVAC is essential to ensure cost-effective, reliable operation given servers generate significant amounts of heat. As part of a facility upgrade, Waste Management replaced its chiller plants to serve its production data center facility in Austin, Texas.