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Heat Recovery Strategies and Green Solutions

Heat recovery provides such effective opportunities for energy savings that ASHRAE Standard 90.1 requires heat recovery be used for service hot water heating and reheat in many buildings. The Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) guidelines also require compliance with Std 90.1. In addition, using heat recovery where not required may contribute toward additional LEED points. McQuay Templifier Water Heaters provide significant environmental impact advantages over a fossil-fired boiler or an electric resistance heater, as shown in the comparison below. Compared to a Templifier unit, a resistance heater burns seven times the fuel quantity and an on-site boiler consumes three times the fuel quantity to produce the same one million Btus of 120-degree water.

McQuay TSC Templifier units are available in capacities from 3,000 to 19,200 MBh (880 to 5,630 kW).

What is a Templifier?
A McQuay Templifier Water Heater uses a unique technology to recover large amounts of low grade heat that would typically be rejected from a process or the building to a cooling tower. It can raise the temperature of the water up to 140 F (60 C), making the heated water usable for processes, building heat, or domestic hot water. The name says it: Temperature AmplifierTemplifier. Templifiers can show dramatic improvements in the usefulness and economies of geothermal and solar systems. Since 1976 McQuay Templifier units have provided energy savings around the world in a variety of building types: manufacturing plants, hotels, hospitals, schools and fitness centers, to name a few.

Comparison of fuel required to produce 1,000,000 Btus of hot water at 120 F

McQuay Templifier unit = Electric Resistance Heater = Fossil-Fired Boiler =

Responsible Refrigerant
Another green advantage of McQuay TSC Templifier Water Heaters is that they use HFC-134a refrigerant which has no ozone depletion potential and no phase-out schedule under the Montreal Protocol.

How the Templifier Can Save You Money

Saves energy by heating water more economically than fuel-fired boilers or electric resistance heat Off-loads overloaded boilers or cooling towers, delaying or eliminating capital expenditures to increase their capacity Secondary benefits include: Saves tower make-up water Reduces chemical treatment costs and sewer charges

Innovation that Pays for Itself

Rapid Return on Your Investment

McQuay HSC heat recovery chillers are available with cooling capacities from 150 to 900 tons and heating capacities from 2,205 to 13,500 MBh (648 to 3,960 kW). End view of a McQuay heat recovery chiller showing the double condenser water connections.

To quantify the savings available with heat recovery systems, consider the example of a Chicago hospital with the following parameters.

480,000 sq ft, three-story building size 1600-ton chiller plant 22,000 MBh boiler plant Constant volume system with reheat 409,330 cfm supply air 192,000 cfm ventilation air

By using an energy economic analysis program such as the McQuay Energy Analyzer, results demonstrate the savings available with either a TSC Templifier unit heating water to 140 F or a HSC heat recovery centrifugal chiller heating to 105 F.

What is a Heat Recovery Chiller?

A McQuay heat recovery centrifugal chiller provides conventional chilled water while recovering heat in a second condenser bundle that would normally be rejected from a building to cooling tower. The recovered heat can reach 120 F and be used for space heating or domestic hot water.

Heat Recovery Chiller Applications

HSC heat recovery chillers can be used in process or comfort cooling applications. Hospitals and health care facilities Make-up air for schools and factories Reheat applications for humidity control including museums and art galleries. Heat source for the central loop of a water source heat pump system, including geothermal systems.

Economic Analysis Summary

Both the heat recovery chiller and the Templifier unit saved more than 6 million kBtu a year.

What McQuay Heat Recovery Model is Right for You?

TSC Templifier Water Heater 3,000 to 19,200 MBh (880 to 5,630 kW) (not applicable) 140 F (60 C) R-134a BACnet, Modbus, LONWORKS HSC Heat Recovery Chiller 2,205 to 13,500 MBh (648 to 3,960 kW) 150 to 900 tons 120 F (49 C) R-134a BACnet, Modbus, LONWORKS

Heating capacity Cooling capacity Maximum hot water temperature Refrigerant Communication options

If your heat recovery system requires higher water temperatures or a smaller unit capacity, the McQuay TGZ Templifier water heater provides 160 F degree water and 600 to 3,100 MBh capacity.

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To learn what savings you could expect from a McQuay Templifier water heater or heat recovery chiller, contact your McQuay representative. To learn the name of your local McQuay rep, visit www.mcquay.com.
The following are tradenames or registered trademarks of their respective companies: BACnet from ASHRAE, LONWORKS from Echelon, Modbus from Schneider Electric, Templifier and Energy Analyzer from McQuay International.

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