Jim Crockett, Jaron Peck, and Gregory Jimmie are participating in a webinar on July 10th moderated by John Avina. The webinar focuses on their novel approach to maintaining chiller efficiency. New advancements in technology give chiller plant owners and operators the ability to monitor their chilled water systems, find equipment failures, or detect changes in efficiency that historically would only have been detectable by a technician conducting a detailed on-site assessment. Bernhard recently had the opportunity to investigate and learn more about chiller failures by watching and gathering data from a large chiller fleet for 3 years. When changes in efficiency were observed, Bernhard teams investigated their root cause, made necessary repairs, and quantified the energy penalty avoided by fixing the problem. Join us July 10th to learn more!
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A Novel Approach to Maintaining Chiller Efficiency: Lessons Learned from Monitoring 78 Chillers Chillers are often the largest energy consuming pieces of equipment in large buildings. But over time they become less and less efficient. Why is that? I don’t know how many of us have asked that question. I bet not enough of us. I didn’t. I just thought chillers degraded over time. That is what I used to think anyways, until I read an article in International Journal of Energy Management by Jim Crockett, Gregory Jimmie and Jaron Peck at Bernhard. The team at Bernhard studied 78 chillers at several hospitals and found that chiller efficiency degrades in step changes, not gradually. The events that lead to the degradation are fixable, so that, if you monitor your chillers and isolate the problems that arise, you can maintain your chillers working at a high efficiency. I don’t want to tell you more. You should listen to the crew explain what they did, what problems cause chillers to become less efficient, how they fixed the problems and the result. Hopefully they will convince you to change the way you approach chiller plants. Maybe you don’t always need to replace chillers. Maybe a few tweaks will do the job. I know for the occasional failing M&V guarantee, this could be a "get out of jail free" card. This is such a different approach to chillers. I found it fascinating, genius really, and so obvious in retrospect. I would have never figured it out. Please join us on Wednesday, July 10 at 10 AM Pacific to hear Jim and his crew teach us their novel approach. Click the link below to sign up today. https://lnkd.in/grhmxRFv