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By David Engle
Yes, water. Would you believe this is the only coolant in a big, powerful chiller? And how about a system that can take widely fluctuating heat inflow to drive an intriguing kind of cooling? These are two prime selling points in an adsorption chiller now newly arriving from abroad, after two decades in Japan and one in Europe. If this epoch-making cooling technology continues to pan out here---as it seems to be doing, so far---then its process for water-based chilling could revolutionize combined coolin...... continue reading
From: Distributed Energy Topics: Data Centers, Trigen
By David Engle
Fixed or sluggish revenues, rising costs, slashed budgets. Not exactly an unheard-of scenario, and, perhaps surprisingly, sometimes occurring simultaneously with growth and expansion. More than a few hospital plant-and-facilities departments in the 1990s were probably experiencing this kind of chronic—well, sort of squeezing—pain, "right here in my budget." As Charlie Stevenson, head of the plant operations at Northwest Community Hospital (NCH) near Chicago, IL, describes it, "My predicament here is tha...... continue reading
From: Distributed Energy Topics: CHP, Trigen
By Carol Wasson
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE Historically, energy efficiency has not been the number one priority for those who run industrial refrigeration operations. In fact, the Energy Center of Wisconsin calls the refrigeration industry a "giant snowball of waste," where efficiency often takes a backseat to day-to-day production issues. Growing food-distribution operations are challenged to maintain overburdened systems. Obviously, when storing perishable goods there's no room for downtime, so the ma...... continue reading
From: Distributed Energy Topics: Trigen