CASE-098 · Engineering case

Production-Cooling Upgrade with Three 160-Ton Chillers

Modernized production cooling with three 160-ton chillers and coordinated piping, controls, electrical and BAS interfaces.

Conceptual engineering visualization: Production-cooling upgrade with three 160-ton chillers
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Why the Work Mattered

Purpose and Operating Need

Reduced compressor-failure exposure and improved cooling reliability for critical acetator and fermenter operations.

Engineering Approach

Engineering Approach

Engineering scope: Chiller & Cooling Systems, BAS & Controls Coordination, Ozone Water Treatment, Electrical Power Distribution.

Outcome & Engineering Context

Outcome and Context

Added approximately 200 tons of net production-cooling capacity. The source records approximately 15% energy reduction at individual chiller feeder monitoring points. Cooling-project evidence records about $118k/year of OPEX reduction across the named production and standby cooling projects; it is not counted again as a separate portfolio-wide total.

Workstream Results & Impact

Workstream Portfolio Rollup

14,998,000 USD

Cooling and Utility Reliability Modernization

Recorded workstream portfolio reference. This is the workstream-level value and is not a project expenditure or a new total of reassigned projects.

Measures & Operating Detail

Engineering scope and design basis

Project scope and individual work packages are presented separately; project totals are not additive to their component values.

4 detail rows; 5,202 K project-family value.

Actions, Methods & Controls

ACTIVITIES IN CONTEXT

Additional Technical Detail

Roles & contributions
  • Project Ownership

    Full lifecycle project ownership

    Owned the full project lifecycle: capital planning and prioritization, need definition, feasibility and scope development, engineering and AFE justification, procurement and vendor coordination, construction sequencing and field oversight, commissioning, turnover, and post-startup support. Connected operating requirements with technical scope, funding decisions, execution readiness, and the needs of operations and maintenance.

Workstream context
All portfolio connections
Project ownership and delivery context

Owned the full project lifecycle: capital planning and prioritization, need definition, feasibility and scope development, engineering and AFE justification, procurement and vendor coordination, construction sequencing and field oversight, commissioning, turnover, and post-startup support. Connected operating requirements with technical scope, funding decisions, execution readiness, and the needs of operations and maintenance.

modeled demand and the roughly 78-ton peak thermal deficit, coordinated pumps and recirculation, and developed chiller staging and runtime balancing. Operating visibility and process-load monitoring connected the three 160-ton production chillers with the way the plant used cooling capacity.

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