Childress Klein - Chiller controls enable implementation of energy strategies, resulting in annual savings of approximately 30%• Atlanta, Georgia
Childress Klein - Chiller controls enable implementation of energy strategies, resulting in annual savings of approximately 30%• Atlanta, Georgia
2 PagesC ase S tudy Dec ember 2015 Challenge Managing a thirteen-story building with both o ces and a data center required Childress Klein to perform a balancing act between keeping the facility's 500 employees comfortable, while maintaining the cooling required by the building's 24/7, mission critical data center. With 40 percent of the building’s budget consumed by mechanical systems, the company also sought ways to lower operating expenses and energy costs. S olution Two 350-ton Trane® CenTraVacTM centrifugal chillers in the chiller plant were operating 24 hours a day, although evening load was lower. To save energy, a strategy was devised to use a smaller 120-ton Trane air-cooled roo op unit, designated for emergency scenarios, as the a er-hours chiller. While the sol
