Questions about adding Additional Chillers
Questions about adding Additional Chillers
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Hello, this is my first post i believe and I was wondering if I could ask some questions. I am currently an engineering intern at a company right now and they are wanting to know if adding an additional chiller would be cost efficient. First:
From a 6 million gallon tank water is stored, then pumped at a rate to a chiller. If two chillers are in line to cool water then would that mean that the Tonnage use on each machine go down or would it multiply by 2. The chiller is rated at 1300 tons.
Well I guess that is my only question for now. Thanks in advance for the advice!!
From a 6 million gallon tank water is stored, then pumped at a rate to a chiller. If two chillers are in line to cool water then would that mean that the Tonnage use on each machine go down or would it multiply by 2. The chiller is rated at 1300 tons.
Well I guess that is my only question for now. Thanks in advance for the advice!!





RE: Questions about adding Additional Chillers
the 1300 tons is the flow of water?
the reason for the tank being temporarily higher flow requirements (>1300 tons)?
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> That's a cost question, not a cost effectiveness question
I don't know that you've yet described the problem. The question should be:
What benefit offsets the cost of the extra power comsumption, cost of the chiller, and cost of maintenance of both the turbines and chillers?
Presumably, this has something to do with the turbines you only now mentioned, and whatever benefit is gotten by running them harder, or longer. If the benefit of this is higher than the costs I mentioned, then it's "cost effective," otherwise, it's not.
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RE: Questions about adding Additional Chillers
placing a condensor in front of a turbine (lol)
would be intresting to see the whole installation...
if you talking about a steam turbine, consider the condensor to be on the back end.
if you talking about a gasturbine, its not very efficient to make the inlet air denser with a chiller unit
what you can do is moisterize the air inlet stream but keep the droplets below 1 micron to prevent ruining of your first row of compressor blades (HP fogging)
RE: Questions about adding Additional Chillers
I still can not make sense of what swood5053 is trying to convey. May be it's me. A sketch may help.
RE: Questions about adding Additional Chillers
Drop the jargon given you by others and ask the questioin simply.