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Made a post in bored thread after being asked about it, figured i would make a thread. Enough of you guys nerd out about cool stuff and i think this is an interesting place.
Made a post in bored thread after being asked about it, figured i would make a thread. Enough of you guys nerd out about cool stuff and i think this is an interesting place.
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existing chillers, 3 1300 ton trane variable speed centrifugals.
new chillers, 2 2100 ton trane duplex, variable speed centrifugals. there's space and piping connections for two more of them to the left of this photo.
the six existing cooling towers, all stainless Marley NC series. Fans are 10' diameter, 60HP motors on frequency drives. From the ground to the top of the tower is around 25' to give a sense of scale. pipe running across the top is 18". I can't back up far enough to get it all in frame
11 new cooling towers, same spec as the old, the risers pipes on these guys are 32". Space for 5 more towers on the concrete basins.
existing chilled water pumps, 3 150HP armstrong vertical inline centrifugals. the pumps for the new chillers are the same spec. everything is on frequency drives.
New condenser pumps for new cooling towers. 3 300HP armstrong vertical inline, again on frequency drives. The strainer (grey vertical tank looking thing) is 7' tall for scale. the large horizontal green pipe to the far right is a 52" header.
existing condenser pumps. 2 Taco 175HP and one Armstrong 175HP
there is a lot of other equipment here as well, two electrical rooms full of switchgear and frequency drives, a few air handlers, centrifugal separators, a couple plate and frame heat exchangers the size of cars, piping vault where everything comes in and out of the building to feed the chilled water loop underground.
that's what i do. Operate, fix and maintain all this stuff. The place runs itself for the most part and i only spend 2-3 hours here daily unless there's a bigger job that consumes more time. I float between four other buildings as well, 500k ish square feet of office, laboratory, experimental halls. Tons of equipment on the service floors and sprinkled through those buildings.
The chiller plant exists primarily to cool our existing supercomputer Theta. at the moment it's the 5th most powerful computer in the world. The new stuff is an expansion in preparation for a new computer being built, Aurora which will be 20x more powerful than Theta. The excess capacity of the plant is used for process and comfort cooling for roughly half of the laboratory.
this is the bland precast concrete building. yay! Cooling towers are exact opposite of where the pic is taken from.
google erf. If you go to the waterfall glen forest preserve in lemont/darien you can walk right up against the fence line at the back of my plant. The trail is 10 miles and follows the outside boundary of the laboratory. This place is a small city.