A Gulf Power Technical Primer Water-Cooled Chillers In many types of larger commercial and industrial buildings, water-cooled electric chillers offer an attractive alternative to air-cooled electric chillers and packaged rooftop units (RTUs). As their name implies, water-cooled chillers use water to absorb heat from the chiller and disperse it through a cooling tower, as opposed to air-cooled chillers and RTUs, which disperse heat only by using air-cooled condensor coils. Water-Cooled Chiller Characteristics Chiller Terminology The use of the cooling tower gives water-cooled systems Several terms are used to describe chiller performance and an efficiency edge over air-cooled systems and RTUs ...
Combined Heat and Power Technology Fact Sheet Series Absorption Chillers for CHP Systems Chillers are used in commercial buildings and industrial plants to provide air conditioning, refrigeration, and process fluid cooling. There are two basic types of chiller cycles: vapor compression and sorption. Vapor compression chillers use reciprocating, screw, or centrifugal compressors to power the cycle. The compressors are most often driven by electric motors, although they can also be powered by natural gas engines or steam turbines. Sorption chillers, which are avail- 1 able as either absorption or adsorption designs , are driven with thermal energy produced from a direct ...
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