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However, it is anticipated that the cooling will be provided via a combination of
reside in either the Frontiers Building or as a stand-alone building on campus.
producing approximately 4,300 GPM of chilled water and would be distributed
redundancy and backup for the system as a part of this master plan. The new
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Distribution Strategies chapter for more detailed information on this approach.
cooling towers and dry coolers. Therefore, the HPC Center is not anticipated
plant will be located within Research 3. CP8 is anticipated to house three (3)
chiller in CP7 (540 tons) simultaneously. These chillers would be capable of
There is a possibility that a High Performance Computing (HPC) Center will
with 14” chilled water mains and tied into the existing loop for CP6 and CP7.
600 ton chillers. This size was determined to give CP8 the ability to provide
Plant 8 (CP8) in anticipated to be provided and tied into the loop to provide
the loop is required to load share throughout the piping network. Research
1 is anticipated to start design in 2023. Refer to the Future Chilled Water
The requirements and demands of this center are still being developed.
redundancy if one chiller were to go down in CP6 (1,300 tons) and one
In addition to the CP6 and CP7 loop, a new chiller plant called Chiller
Appendix 2: Utilities Master Plan
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Therefore, this is the approach for the master plan. It is anticipated that CP6
design flow limitation of 10 FPS once this building comes online. Therefore,
It is the desire of Facilities Management to connect the Frontiers Building to
have sufficient spare capacity following the Campus Infrastructure Upgrade
for easier future connections as there would be a chilled water pipe nearby.
water supply and return pipe from CP6 along 18th Street would exceed the
From meetings with Facilities Management, there is a strong desire to loop
CP6 and CP7 together. Per Facilities Management, the benefits of looping
plants and to provide redundancy to the system. In addition, a loop allows
and construction of Research 1. The reason for this is that the 14” chilled
within the Research Park neighborhood. Refer to Chilled Water: Load by
Project and piping is also being routed in the direction of the Frontiers

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