An air cooled chiller planned maintenance visit for a long standing customer of ours. They have just signed up to another 3 year contract. We know at Maximus Chillers that if we want to keep our customers, we must continue to offer the Maximus Service. Maximus is Latin for the highest and the greatest.
Critical Air Cooled Chiller Planned Maintenance
Planned maintenance is essential for these chillers as they are critical plant. They feed a large conference room which is a major part of the end user’s business. They cannot afford to loose the conference room when there is an event on. There is redundancy in the plant, but the customer always makes sure that the issues highlighted on the maintenance are acted on promptly. Also, the chillers feed a water cooled condenser for a pack which cools £50,000 of products used during the conferences.
Air Cooled Chiller Oil Planned Maintenance
There is 1mw of cooling across the 2 chillers. Our engineer noticed that the oil level was slightly below the sight glass on one of the 250kw Bitzer compressors. The machine had previously been extensively run tested to ensure no oil return issues were present. Therefore, he decided to adjust the level with the oil available onsite.
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Economizer
The economizers, in the picture, were tested to ensure the solenoids were opening when the program sent the run signal. The electronic expansion valves functioned correctly and subcooled the liquid further after the condenser.
Head Pressure Control
The head pressure control was functioning correctly, keeping a steady 8 bar of pressure across all stages of loading and water system temperatures. This is because these chillers use a fan speed controller for each system. The fans cut in at the minimum running speed, which prevents stalling and over heating. Also, all fans running together are more reliable. Fans fail on systems using relays or pressure switches as the higher pressure fans don’t often come on. When they do, moisture has ingressed into them causing them to fail.
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