Examining more closely how a building’s sensible and latent loads can be more effectively met opens numerous design possibilities, ES NEWS guest contributors argue.
With Windham Hospital swapping to engine-driven cooling, they are expected to save 200 tons of carbon emissions annually by using natural gas directly and efficiently.
This project forced ES NEWS commissioning columnist Miles Ryan to think far deeper than he ever wanted to about the concepts of interlocks of where they can go wrong.
We need to be making our buildings more energy efficient so that smaller amounts of renewable electricity are needed and less capacity needs to be built, whitepaper authors argue.
The chiller provides 250-450 tons (900- 1,600 kW) of cooling and 3600-5300 MBH (1,000-1,550 kW) of heating. This dual capability eliminates the need for separate heating equipment.
Air-cooled chillers are projected to hold a leading position in the Global Chillers market, and centrifugal chillers outshine other compressor technologies, Adroit Market Research analysts project.
As of January 1, 2020, the EPA made it illegal to import or manufacture the common refrigerant Freon, also known as R-22, in the U.S. — a major problem for facilities still using it.