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Energy efficiency measures - Industrial - Refrigeration

Template assignment

Base case
  • A medium temperature refrigeration system with seasonal COP of 3 cools a manufacturing process 12 hours per day
  • Cooling load is 3 million Btu/h
  • Duty cycle is 100%
Proposed case
  • Reduce duty cycle to 80% and cut operating time to 10 hours per day
  • Incremental cost for change: $100,000
  • O&M savings: $1,000 per year
Solution

The worked-out solution is the data file selected from within the RETScreen Project Database. The user automatically downloads the Project Database file while downloading the RETScreen software.