Air-cooled, frictionless centrifugal chiller with free cooling option in eQUEST

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Hello all,

I am modelling a new construction in eQUEST that uses a fairly new chiller product that I have not seen before. I was wondering if anyone has any experience modelling this Equipment:

It is a Smardt remote air cooled chiller (the chiller is in the basement but the condenser is on the roof 4 floors up). It uses frictionless magnetic bearings, it has 2 compressors and it has an option for water side free cooling which I can't seem to find any documentation on how it works exactly.

In eQUEST, I know that I cannot combine an air cooled chiller with the water side economizer option since I need a condenser loop for the water side economizer and I don't think eQUEST has any built-in performance curves for an air-cooled magnetic centrifugal chiller with 2 compressors. I don't have enough information from the equipment spec sheets to model my own curves either.

Does anyone have any ideas of the best way to model this?

Thanks!

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Jason Ng_ing. jr. M.Sc.A., LEED green associate
jng at bpa.ca | www.bpa.ca | t: 5143833747x2813

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