G&D Chillers – Heat Reclaim Overview with Paul

Hey, guys. This is Paul at G&D Chillers. I’m the Engineering Manager here.

Behind me I have a two-hundred horsepower chiller that’s still in production.

Of course, you can see it has four fifty-horsepower compressors, multiple redundant pumps, and this particular machine has a heat reclaim module that is specific for our dairy customers.

This module is built in here at the factory, but we also have the option to ship this to you in whatever configuration you may need for whatever chiller you have. We can include a pump. We can include a reservoir. We can build all that, including the controls into this skid and send it to you for a very simple field installation.

So, in this particular heat reclaim system, we’ve got hot discharge gas from the compressor, heating fluid over here. You can use that fluid to heat any process in your dairy. We control each circuit individually so that you never risk over cooling the discharge gas going through these heat exchangers, and you always have a constant flow of hot water or glycol available for your facility whenever this chiller is running. So this is a great way to get free hot water for your facility. That water can be used to heat through fan coils or coils in your floor.

You can use that water for whatever heating process you have. But not only does it increase the efficiency of the chiller, you can probably get an energy credit to cover the cost of this module from your utility. This is one option that we have for heat reclaim, but there are other options as well. Feel free to give us a call, and we’d be very happy to discuss those options with you.

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