Getting the Most Out Of Your Cooling Units
Getting the most out of your industrial chillers, whether they may be air cooled chillers or are units that are categorized as industrial water chillers, means you have to maximize its usability to the greatest possible advantage.
But how can you do such if your process cooling units do not live long for you to use it to its utmost advantage?
The key to making and getting the most out of your units is effective and efficient chiller up-keeping. Chillers are major investments to any business. These cooling apparatuses do not cost cheap when newly purchased or when repaired and take up or use a large percentage of a building’s electricity.
Despite the popular and widely known importance of these equipments to establishments, companies and organizations, many still ironically fail to operate and maintain the units ineffectively and inefficiently. When a business, organization or institution, barely or, worse, fails to operate and maintain chilling units properly and appropriately they become greatly prone to higher energy costs, curtailed cooling unit performance, lowered reliability and shortened chiller life.
Creating a chiller maintenance program can help accomplish the objective.
The common elements that are required in most, if not all chiller maintenance and preservation programs are:
Operating Logs – Operating logs are sheets or trackers that contain information correlated and linked to the operation of the cooling unit. The data in operating logs are used for a thorough review of chiller operations and for a quick and timely identification of any kind of developing abnormal chiller behaviours. Although often slipped up on and overlooked, operating logs are particularly crucial tools in an effective chiller unit maintenance procedure.
Allocated Inspection and Maintenance Activities (The Maintenance Schedule) – Inspections can be conducted daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly or annually, depending on what is to be examined. Inspections, in general, should not interfere with operations. Once the technician sees something that needs attention or repair, they then turn to maintenance activities. Inspections and Minor repairs/Maintenance work are conducted to ensure daily efficiency and to identify, first-hand, minor problems so it can be corrected before they become worse.
The appropriate activities and suitable maintenance tasks vary according to the type or kind of chiller used, the number of hours it operates and the environment the chillers operates in. It is also advised to contact the chilling unit’s manufacturer to best identify the apropos maintenance to dos, the well-suited schedules and relevant frequency of the units.
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