This month’s Facility File will focus on a new, highly efficient, air-cooled chiller to interface with the existing chiller plant at a mid-sized hospital in New England. The existing chilled water plant operates from spring through the fall, but this system is shutdown, as it was not engineered to operate 24/7 throughout the year.
During this heating season, the hospital struggles to provide adequate air conditioning to the operating rooms (ORs) and ancillary areas, e.g., recovery rooms, and this places a lot of demand on the facility operators to maintain adequate cooling in these areas using 100% outdoor air in lieu of mechanical cooling.