Hello all,
Our plant leader here is telling us we need to circulate water (chilled and condenser) through all of our machines for 1 hour per barrel, per day.. We have a 12,000 ton plant and this takes 6 hours a night. He says this is required by NYC code. I can't find the code. While I realize...
This is one of two new machines installed in the spring. This electric drive chiller has surge protection (no hot gas bypass). For about a week, the operators were surging this unit on the evening hours and accepting it as "a problem with the machine"... the machine began to leak refrigerant...
This unit is a new installation, this is the first winter season it will see. My coworkers seem to be hung up on a chilled water sp of 42 and they like their condenser water above 80. When they run this way, the hot gas bypass is open nearly constantly. I come on shift and raise the chilled...
