Improving chiller and chilled water system efficiency
You can improve chiller efficiency for individual units within your
facility. But if you stop there, you’ve only gained part of the possible
energy savings within your plant or site.
Improving the efficiency of individual chillers is certainly
worthwhile. Leaks should be sealed, bare pipe insulated and coolant
levels brought up to recommended levels. Older or limited chiller
controls should be replaced. Supporting systems like water treatment and
automated tubing cleaners should be added or upgraded.
But if you run more than one chiller, there is more you can do. First, you can sequence multiple
chillers to consistently improve overall chilled water output
efficiency. Second, you can implement a load monitoring and balancing
system that enables you to match output to
demand.
We can advise you on maintenance, controls and other systems for
individual chillers. However, we focus on larger energy savings by designing and implementing chiller
sequencing, chilled water distribution management and
energy load
balancing systems.
Move beyond chiller efficiency to chilled water system
efficiencies
For those who dislike the waste of overproducing to ensure meeting
demand, there is good news.
Sequencing and load balancing are now
readily and affordably accomplished using proven industrial technology,
some or all of which you might already use.
Energy load balancing, for instance, is done using plant
information platforms to display demand information from
processes and building automation systems. And it can be implemented in
easy-to-digest phases.
We can help you analyze your load and demand patterns to determine
whether sequencing and load balancing create meaningful benefits for
your situation. From there, RoviSys Power and Energy engineers can work
with to estimate costs, return on investment and payback period.
And we can help you demonstrate how a well-designed energy management
system aligns the interests of nearly everyone in a plant or site. Even with rising
energy costs, gaining approval for industrial energy efficiency projects
can be a significant challenge. You know that a
small decrease in plant or site energy consumption
can create significant savings that pay off every week, year after year. Let us help you to calculate the payback.
With chiller sequencing, it is possible to add one chiller at a time
until all the units in your plant or site work in efficient
coordination. Load balancing is also accommodating to
phases implementation.
RoviSys chilled water system solutions from audits to support
Understanding the full capabilities of your current systems is the
right place to begin reducing energy costs. An inexpensive
audit of your
chilled water control systems will help you determine whether updated
controls, sequencing or energy monitoring and management can provide
attractive reductions in your energy costs.
RoviSys is committed to specifying the recommendations, solutions and
technologies best for each client’s application. We understand and
engineer more than chilled water and steam controls: As one
of the largest independent control automation providers in North
America, we’ve designed and implemented more than 3,000 industrial
automation and control systems. We bring our vision, independence and
results to every project.
RoviSys chilled water system services
- Chilled water systems audits
- Multiple chiller sequencing
- Demand monitoring
- Chilled water distribution control
- Energy management and load balancing systems
- Interface to building automation system
- Data collaboration