Carlos Petty is Principal and Group Manager of Building Automation for Syska Hennessy Group, Inc. His professional focus has been on improving building and plant operation for over 40 years implementing fully automatic equipment sequences through automation integration. His responsibilities over the years in-clude facilities operations consultation, MEP design, and project management.

Chiller Plant Optimization: Improving On Variable Primary Flow Chilled Water System Operation

The larger or more complex a cooling plant becomes, the more challenges to its ef-ficiency it will face. When applied wisely, modern controls and equipment can rise to meet those challenges. Read up on active balancing, pump dynamic differential setpoint control, and more responsive tactics for when the worst thing you can do is just go with the flow.

Mark Bandini, P.E., CAP Carlos Petty, P.E. Ernie Brandusa, P.E.

November 2, 2016

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Optimizing any cooling plant for minimal energy consumption is a demanding science.

Chiller Plant Optimization: The Role Of Controls

Sometimes it does pay to sweat the small stuff. Data availability might vary depending simply on where you’re accessing it. Not only selection but placement of your sensors and transmitters can influence their effectiveness and response time. Bearing down on such details on the BMS side can yield long-term results for your cooling goals.

Carlos Petty, P.E.

October 3, 2016

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Properly selected automated controls to minimize chiller plant energy, power consumption, and the cost of operations are essential for overarching chiller plant performance.

Adiabatic humidification systems have opened up a whole new way of saving energy, and making buildings more efficient and comfortable. Moving to new technologies can give many of us pause and fear from the unknown. Having key partners in the process can really help move the project along successfully. The New York City based Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) introduced adiabatic humidification into their new Clinical Laboratory Medicine building in 2017, and again in its newest Outpatient Ambulatory Care Center just finishing construction.

Engineered Systems Magazine

2019 October

Check out Engineered Systems magazine’s October 2019 issue takes a closer look at condensation concerns surrounding the use of chilled beams, examines the energy implications of chilled water plant design and operation, and much more.

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