Process Cooling
Millions of dollars and thousands of
man hours are spent annually on industrial cooling equipment
downtime, repair, and maintenance. Failure to provide
effective air intake protection to building and other equipment
fans, motors, condensing units and coils adds up to a costly loss
of productivity in safe and efficient system
operations. Maintenance engineers today are
finding that protective fins and louvers on equipment air inlets do
not offer adequate protection to keep cooling systems running
cleanly and efficiently. The need to hand brush equipment
fins clean of debris, flush with water or cleaning solutions, and
to make frequent filter change outs occurs all too often.
Debris continuously drawn into the air intake insulates the coils,
reduces the necessary airflow, increases run times, compressor
pressure and energy costs. These changes in system
performance increase maintenance expenses and decrease the life
expectancy of the equipment. In addition, ventilation
components are often located in constrained spaces or in awkward
locations such as remote job sites. This makes periodic
maintenance or emergency component failure repairs difficult and
unusually costly. Reducing the buildup of debris such as
dirt, cottonwood, leaves, grass clippings, bugs, construction and
industrial debris is one way to decrease system vulnerability.
Case Studies
- Automated Packaging Plant
A 200 ton York chiller, located at the industrial facility of Automated Packaging Systems Incorporated, had an extreme example of unsuccessful air intake filtration. The $165,000 chiller was installed to handle their 250,000 sq. ft. facility, where extrusion of plastic sheeting and tubing for consumer packaging takes place, plus full color printing operations. Unfortunately the facility backs up to a busy set of railroad tracks that showers them with train soot, dirt and dust and an access road that is heavily traveled by dump trucks and heavy machinery on their way to the nearby road paving company. Maintenance on the York chiller was too time consuming chore. - Cottonwood Blankets Roof Top Units
Situated twenty miles southwest of Denver, the Parker Water and Sanitation District serves more than 22,000 Colorado residents. The District’s mission is to deliver clean, high quality water to its customers, and then manage, operate and maintain the 150 mile long sewage collections system that safely transports it all back from their homes and businesses to wastewater treatment plants. The facility includes two activated sludge wastewater treatment plants that can treat up to 3.5 million gallons per day. As most facility managers can attest, Mother Nature doesn’t always adhere to those same objectives. Parker’s administrative office and largest treatment facility, as well as a variety of outlying buildings, holding ponds, aeration tanks, wells and pumping stations lie within an area that is dominated by large cottonwood trees.
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