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serves are not decoupled, making it a much more complicated and potentially
decoupling buildings with heat exchangers will result in a 2ºF higher (warmer)
There are several challenges involved with looping Chiller Plant 6 and Chiller
Plant 7. The following will need to be implemented prior to looping the chilled
Facilities Management has the desire to loop the piping from multiple chilled
capacity and has the potential to cause some deficiencies during periods of
water plants. Currently, there are three (3) buildings being served by Chiller
Plant 6 that are not decoupled from the plant system with a heat exchanger
erential. The previous
need to be decoupled prior to joining the two plants. It should be noted that
It is understood that Chiller Plant 6 has some control issues and therefore
building side chilled water supply than the cooling equipment within these
distribution. Existing plants Chiller Plant 6 and Chiller Plant 7 have similar
a more expensive choice to loop. Therefore, Chiller Plant 5 will remain an
sufficient proximity which make this a viable option. Chiller Plant 5, while
temperature (45ºF), has a different pumping strategy and the buildings it
– Brown Hall, Maple Hall, and Weaver Towers. All three (3) buildings will
operating temperatures and controls that also have distribution mains in
water plants together to provide more capacity, redundancy, and central
buildings was designed for. This will reduce the available peak cooling
close in proximity to these has a higher operating chilled water supply
FUTURE CHILLED WATER DISTRIBUTION STRATEGIES

studies report that decoupling the three remaining buildings as well as closing
is not currently achieving a 10ºF fluid temperature diff
individual stand-alone plant. peak cooling demand.

conference center, hotel, commercial, and residential uses. This development
The new apartment buildings located west of Tangent Way would be provided
Mines Park is a compilation of existing and new housing along with child care
cooling towers and dry coolers. Therefore, the HPC Center is not anticipated
developed through a public-private partnership. The program may contain a
centers and Mines facility buildings. According to Facilities Management, all
would provide its own chilled water and not be connected to a Mines chiller
existing housing will be renovated throughout the time frame of the master
The Facilities Master Plan recommends a mixed use development, likely
plan. Facilities Management has advised that the existing buildings are
anticipated to remain as stand-alone direct expansion cooling.
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with mechanical cooling via variable refrigerant flow systems or ground source heat pumps. In any case, they would not be connected to a central The Facility Operations buildings would have stand-alone direct expansion cooling. The Mines Park Center Expansion and the Mines Park Child Care Center Buildings would also have stand-alone direct expansion cooling. Colorado School of Mines Faciliti
to affect the campus chilled water master plan.

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