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