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Originally Posted by servicefitter How can a foam ball going through a enhance tube clean it without spiralling? IMO, those balls are only effective in cleaning the chiller owner's wallet...
How can a foam ball going through a enhance tube clean it without spiralling?
The approach temperature affects the overall pressure differential that the compressor has to handle. Every design behaves a bit differently. Screw and scroll compressors are positive displacement and do not have as large of an efficiency impact on additional head pressure. That is why we can use medium and high pressure refrigerants in those compressors. The pressure increase for every 1 degree on high pressure is much greater than low pressure. Centrifs are dynamic compression and a degree higher approach will have a larger affect than screw or scroll. Again it also depends on the refrigerant. for one degree increase on low pressure refrigerants, the pressure increase is much less than on a medium pressure units. For r123, every 1°F of approach increase is around 2% efficiency loss (this also depends on if there is a VFD or not). A unit with a VFD will see even greater efficiency savings when you reduce the pressure. The machine that would see the greatest benefit of reduced head pressure (lowering approach temperature) would be a centrifugal chiller using r134a that has a VFD installed.
Dear Sir, Can you advise me about this case Thx in advance sir.
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thanks for the warning R123 i will take in consideration regards oscar
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oh no, not the balls again! had enough of them in the eighties. the old backflush system used to force the balls past the cages, and out into the system, right up until they clogged the condenser water strainers how are the balls going to lower design approach? all they will do is keep tubes clean for a while. any way, keeping the approach at design will keep costs down. Any reduction in cleanliness will effect energy consumed, but it varies per chiller. not nearly enough info.
Anisrahim sounds like ball tech technology i just use with york also we use the brush from pensecola technology, Please put your email address in your profile, they are not allowed to be in post, thank you. please send me the information of your product , i will give you some tips for how to justify the equipment with calculate the fouling factor and ROI where you guys located Regards
Thank Ess Chill Water. Actually i working with a company promoting automatic tube cleaning system using sponge ball to ensure condenser tubes of water-cooled chiller always free from fouling. So we focus on the condenser side only. some of my client ask me to study how much can they save by implementing this auto tube cleaning system. my calculation is based on how much we can reduce the CAT readings after the system installation. Based on a study, this system can save about 18% from the chiller electricity consumption. So i need to verify the percentage saving for 1 degree C reduction of CAT. it is applicable to any water-cooled chiller, TRANE, YORK. and any type, centrifugal, rotary etc.. Tq.
what machine we talking about ??? you need a point of departure here in your question is not very clear , but let me say this , the aproach help you to know if the unit is working properly as the design indicate , now if you have a unit that is working now with fouling problems we are talking of something diferent. your question need to be more specifyc regards
Condenser Approach Temperature Hi guys. Is there any verification of 1°C of CAT reduction will result in 5% energy saving of chiller. Please let me know whether this is true. Thank you guys.
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