If you are considering a cooling system for your factory, don’t make the mistake of focusing solely on the initial investment: consider the total cost of ownership of the system and what the critical elements which influence this are.

1. Factory cooling: have you considered the total cost of ownership?
If you are considering a cooling system for your
factory, don’t make the mistake of focusing solely
on the initial investment: consider the total cost of
ownership of the system and what the critical
elements which influence this are.
High energy costs with a traditional HVAC
system
With a good “traditional” HVAC system such as an
air handling unit, the running costs can account for
as much as 87% of the Total Cost of Ownership –
e.g. the ventilation fans, the pumps and the
cooling system.
You can get dramatic savings in running cost with evaporative cooling
Evaporative cooling can slash running costs considerably, as Dutch company Fonterra is finding out at
their dairy factory in Heerenveen. The original investment in the new evaporative cooling system
amounted to a very small percentage of the total costs of ownership; the balance related to the
running of the plant.
Typical calculations show that the CoolStream system barely uses 10% of the energy that a
“traditional” chilled water HVAC system would need to maintain the same conditions. Just think what a
difference the new system will make to Fonterra’s energy bills!
If you want to know more about evaporative cooling, you can:
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Read our series of articles on the topic in our blog: http://blog.coltinfo.co.uk/blog/?
Tag=Evaporative+cooling.html
Join us on our CPD accredited webinar on evaporative
cooling https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/371325350
Read about our Coolstream evaporative cooling system on our
website http://www.coltinfo.co.uk/evaporative-cooling-coolstream.html
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