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PREFACE
Installing liquid chillers in the member states of the European Union
EN 378 requirements
European directives serve the requirements of machines, systems and services and favour a free turnover of
goods and services within the European Union. The Member States of the European Union are obliged to transfer
the contents of the directives into national law. So-called Harmonized Norms (EN) are published explaining the
requirements of the directives for the purpose of supporting and instigating the directives.
In the field of refrigeration technology, the Norm EN 378 is of particular relevance. In its four parts, the requirements for the safety of persons and property, as well as the local and global environment, are determined for stationary and mobile refrigerating systems and heat pumps of any size. This leaflet acquaints the reader with the EN
378 requirements for chillers and provides a general overview of the requirements placed upon both the system
installation and refrigerant selection.
In the Member States of the European Union, additional regulations may prevail (e.g. BGR 500/2.36 in Germany).
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
1
Application Hints for Planners, Architects, Plant Manufacturers and Installers .............................. 8
1.1
Machinery room (acc. to EN 378: Special Machinery Rooms) ........................................... 8
1.2
Refrigerant classes ............................................................................................................ 8
1.3
Installation areas ............................................................................................................... 8
1.4
Examples of machinery room arrangements ...................................................................... 9
1.5
Installation in buildings ..................................................................................................... 10
1.6
Refrigerant fill up quantities based on the installation location of the equipment
[EN 378-1:2012-08; Appendix C] ..................................................................................... 11
1.7
Practical Limits for different refrigerants ........................................................................... 13
1.8
Comparison between Ammonia systems and refrigerating systems with A1-refrigerant
charges............................................................................................................................ 13
1.9
Chillers using ammonia as a cooling medium. ................................................................. 14
1.10
Requirements for the hydraulic circuit .............................................................................. 15
1.10.1 Application: Chiller in the consumer circuit ......................................................... 15
1.10.2 Application: Cooling Medium Circuit ................................................................... 18
1.11
Remote condenser .......................................................................................................... 19
1.12
Water quality requirements, parameters .......................................................................... 24
1.13
Use of filters..................................................................................................................... 25
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TABLE OF FIGURES
fig. 1: Machinery room arrangement, example 1 .................................................................................... 9
fig. 2: Machinery room arrangement, example 2 .................................................................................... 9
fig. 3: location on 1st basement floor .................................................................................................... 10
fig. 4: location on 1st basement floor .................................................................................................... 10
fig. 5: location on upper floor ................................................................................................................ 11
fig. 6: Hydraulic circuit with dual circuit buffer tank ............................................................................... 15
fig. 7: Blocking the external vapour condenser. .................................................................................... 19
fig. 8: Blocking the external air cooled condenser ................................................................................ 20
fig. 9: Blocking the external air cooled condenser for oil cooling via a separate refrigerant circuit. ....... 21
fig. 10: Thermosyphone oil circuit......................................................................................................... 22
fig. 11: Corrosion resistance in presence of chlorides .......................................................................... 25
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1.1
Room only used for installation of the entire chiller or parts of the chiller. It is only accessible for maintenance and
repair of the chiller by authorized personnel [EN 378-1:2012-08; 3.2.2].
1.2
Refrigerant classes
Refrigerant is classified according to flammability and toxicity. The following table provides an overview of the
refrigerant classes used in chillers.
See also EN 378-1:2012-08; Appendix E.
Refrigerant class
Safety group
1.3
Refrigerant
A1
B2
R717
Installation areas
The installation areas for chillers are divided into three areas. These installation classes are classified according
to the corresponding safety requirements.
Class A
Presence of persons of uncontrolled number (e.g. public buildings, hospitals, dwelling houses, theatres, supermarkets, schools, hotels, etc.)
Class B
Presence of persons of limited number some of them are acquainted with the special conditions and the general safety requirements (e.g. office- and business buildings, laboratories, rooms for general manufacture and
work)
Class C
Rooms and buildings to which only authorized persons are granted access (e.g. production buildings, cold
stores, dairies, slaughterhouses, non-public areas of supermarkets) [EN 378-1:2012-08; 4.2.4]
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1.4
fig. 1:
fig. 2:
The installation of an entry to the machinery room only from outside (Image 1) or the installation of an airlock (Image 2) shall help prevent direct access to the machinery room. The selection of this arrangement allows all the
other parts of the building to shift into Class C.
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1.5
Installation in buildings
fig. 3:
fig. 4:
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location on upper floor
The machinery room has a separate access via the staircase and solely authorized personnel are granted access.
Hence, the location in figure 5 again complies with class C EN 378 -1:2008-06 without restrictions concerning the
charge.
fig. 5:
1.6
The evaporator in the chiller cools the liquid cooling agent in a closed system. It thus has on direct contact with
the cooling agent. Thus the chiller has its cooling agent constantly in an indirect system in accordance with EN
378-1:2012-08; 4.1.3.
The following table is an excerpt from Table C.1 of 378-1:2012-08; Appendix C, the filling levels apply to the indirect system.
Refrigerant
class
A1
Installation area
Class A
General installation area
Class B
Monitored installation area
Installation site
Charge
no machinery room
< PGW x V
no restriction
no restriction
no machinery room
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Refrigerant
class
Installation area
and
Class C
Installation areas
which only permitted individuals
can access
Class A
General installation area
B2
Class B
Monitored installation area
Installation site
Charge
no restriction
no restriction
no restriction
no machinery room
< PGW x V
< PGW x V
no machinery room
10 kg
no machinery room
no restriction
no restriction
Class C
Installation areas
which only permitted individuals
can access
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1.7
The highest refrigerant concentration in an area where personnel are present, which do not require acute measure for an escape are defined in accordance with EN 378-1:2012-08; Appendix F.3.1 as practical limit (kg refrigerant / m room volume).
Refrigerant
Refrigerant class
R134a
A1
0,25 kg/m
R404A
A1
0,48 kg/m
R407C
A1
0,31 kg/m
R410A
A1
0,44 kg/m
R507A
A1
0,49 kg/m
R717
B2
0,00035 kg/m
1.8
General requirements
A1
NH3
Pressure release equipment on every pressurized basis [EN 378-2:201208; 6.2.6.2 Image1 - Part B]
required
required
Display equipment for the use of pressure release equipment of more than
300 kg cooling medium filling levels [EN 378-2:2012-08; 6.2.6.5]
required
required
required
required
free of danger
outside or into
an absorption
device
required
required
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Requirements when locating the refrigerating system in a machinery room
A1
NH3
required
required
required
required
required
required
required
Provision of respiratory protective devices with filter (full face mask) or selfcontained breathing apparatus [[EN 378-3:2012-08; A.2 and A.3]
required
required
required
Installation of an emergency body shower and an eye shower [EN 3783:2012-08; A.3.4]
not required
required
not required
required
1.9
In general damage to the evaporator/condenser (e.g. plate fracture) creates the danger that he media will mix.
It may cause ammonia to flow to the liquid side of the heat exchanger.
Caution!
It creates the danger of mixing of media.
To prevent subsequent damage to the hydraulic system, measures need to be taken on the building die. They
may take the form of:
3 The machinery room needs to be equipped with a mechanical ventilation system, which can be switched on and off outside of the machinery
room [EN 378-3:2012-08; 5.1g)]
4 The mechanical ventilation needs to be activated by refrigerant detectors when the lower alarm limit is reached, when the ventilation fails an
alarm needs to be set off. [EN 378-3:2012-08; 5.16.3]
5 he mechanical ventilation needs to be activated by refrigerant detectors when the lower alarm limit is reached, when the ventilation fails an
alarm needs to be set off. [EN 378-3:2012-08; 5.16.3]
6 In ammonia refrigeration equipment the lower limit is 500 ppm (V/V); the upper limit 30,000 ppm (V/V) [EN 378-3:2012-08; 8.7]
7 when filling >1000 kg ammonia [EN 378-3:2012-08; Appendix A.3.4]
8 when filling >500 kg ammonia
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1. Separator heat exchangersin glycol systems with copper piping.
Should a copper heat exchanger be installed in the cooling agent circuit and the chiller operate using ammonia as the cooling medium, then a double indirect system can be installed (see also EN 378-1:2012; 4.4.2.4).
It means that an additional heat exchanger is installed between the cooling agent flowing to the chiller and the
cooling agent consumer circuit to assure hydraulic decoupling.
Only then will it be possible to prevent the cooling agent from entering the cooling agent consumer circuit and
prevent any subsequent damage in the event of a leak in the condenser/heat exchanger in the chiller.
2. or
NH3-sensors in the pipe system close behind the heat exchangers.
Ammonia sensors need to be installed in the piping system near the outlet from the heat exchanger/evaporator, which will detect the presence of ammonia in the cooling agent solution.
fig. 6:
Chiller
Filter
Check valve primary circuit-cooling agent pump; only needed if more than one chiller is available on the production side
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10
11
Consuming devices
A reservoir is installed between the generator and consumer (double-pipe connection). Circuit corresponds to
diagram.
The hydraulic spur shall be designed to assume the function of a storage tank/ stratefied storage tank. Tank
volume VTank shall be determined as follows:
Q0 min
[kW]
KT
Refrigerant density
[kg/m]
cp KT
[kJ/kg K]
[K]
The ascertained tank volume may be reduced by the volume of the primary refrigerant circuit (chiller heat exchanger of the incoming and outgoing refrigerant lines).
The required volume of the stratified storage tank in the cold water circuit with start-up temperatures of 1C shall
be expanded by 50%!
To form a decent temperature stratification care should be taken so that the charging and discharging of the cooling agent is carried out horizontally in the tank, immediately on the tank floor or the below the tank top. The inflow
velocity in the tanks needs to be < 0.1m/s.
The primary circuit cooling agent pump runs with constant volume flows.
The swept volume in the primary circuit pump equals that of the secondary circuit pump.
Should several chillers be run parallel on consumer circuit the following shall also apply in addition to that above:
All chillers (cooling generators) shall be have their hydraulic run in parallel, the pressure losses are the same.
To calculate the minimum tank volume VTank the minimum cooling capacity for the large chiller shall be used:
Q0 min
[kW]
KT
Refrigerant density
[kg/m]
cp KT
[kJ/kg K]
[K]
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In this case the following shall also apply:
The ascertained tank volume may be reduced by the volume of the primary refrigerant circuit (chiller heat exchanger of the incoming and outgoing refrigerant lines).
The required volume of the stratified storage tank in the cold water circuit with start-up temperatures of 1C shall
be expanded by 50%!
To form a decent temperature stratification care should be taken so that the charging and discharging of the cooling agent is carried out horizontally in the tank, immediately on the tank floor or the below the tank top. The inflow
velocity in the tanks needs to be < 0.1m/s.
Each chillers has its own cooling agent pump, which operate with a constant volume flow.
Volume flow for the FKS cooling agent pump 1 to n
i = 1.... n
i
= 1 to n
Q0i
[kW]
Refrigerant density
[kg/m]
cp
[kJ/kg K]
t Project
[K]
The swept volumes in the cooling agent circuit based on the cooling capacity of each chiller needs to be the
same, i.e. pumps with the same capacity need to be used for chillers of the same type.
The total swept volume in the consumer circuit is the total volume in the generator circuit.
Total swept volume consumer circuit
On the building side assurance needs to be made that uncontaminated cooling agent flow through the evaporator. The cooling agent needs to be free of particles >0.9mm at the inlet to the evaporator. To make sure that
this media quality is provided an appropriate filter needs to be installed on the building side.
The mesh for such a filter needs to be 0.9mm.
Should the chiller need to remain in operation during filter cleaning, double filters need to be used.
Pressure loss through the filter need to be taken into consideration on the building side when designing the
pump circuit.
In addition to inspection for mechanical contamination the cooling agent needs to be specifically examined for
chloride. Depending on the plate material (see documentation) the chloride levels in the "Requirements for
water quality, limits" chapter can be tolerated.
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1.10.2 Application: Cooling Medium Circuit
Cooling medium circuits server to supply the chiller condenser.
In an open circuit the cooling medium is re-cooled via an open heat exchanger. In doing so the cooling medium
has direct and intense contact with the ambient air.
In closed systems the cooling medium does not come into direct contact with the ambient air.
In closed and particularly in open systems assurance needs to be made that uncontaminated cooling media flow
through the evaporator on the building side. The cooling medium needs to be free of particles >0.9mm at the inlet
to the evaporator. To make sure that this media quality is provided an appropriate filter needs to be installed on
the building side.
The mesh for such a filter needs to be 0.9mm!
Should the chiller need to remain in operation during filter cleaning, double filters need to be used.
Pressure loss through the filter need to be taken into consideration on the building side when configuring the
pump.
In addition to inspection for mechanical contamination the cooling medium needs to be specifically examined for
chloride. Depending on the plate material (see documentation) the chloride levels in the "Requirements for water
quality, limits" chapter can be tolerated.
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fig. 7:
= Hmin + 0.5m
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Blocking the external air cooled condenser
fig. 8:
= Hmin + 0,5m
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Blocking the external air cooled condenser for oil cooling via a separate refrigerant circuit.
fig. 9:
Blocking the external air cooled condenser for oil cooling via a separate refrigerant circuit.
= Hmin + 0,5m
Motor driven valve inlet condenser (1) and motor driven valve outlet condenser (2), and additional for suggestion
3 motor driven valve refrigerant inlet (3) and motor driven valve refrigerant outlet (4), are controlled depending on
compressor operation and ambient outside temperature.
Compressor ON
Compressor stopping
and
Outside temperature < set value
Hint!
In this control mode (see images 7, 8 and 9) a feedback signal from the motor driven valves is
required.
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Oil cooling using the thermosyphone principal
Hint!
Please find on the following page the minimal required heights of the condenser for thermosyphon oil cooling and adhere to it!
For the calculation of the minimal height Hmin take into consideration the entire pressure loss p in the circuit
Condenser Receiver - Condenser via pipes, fittings, valves, condenser and receiver.
Hmin p / x g
p - pressure loss in Pa
- density of the refrigerant
g - gravity
The vapour return line of the oil cooler (6) must be connected as close as possible to the condenser inlet (see
Figure).
Hot gas
Cooled oil
Hot oil
Liquid ammonia
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7
065
090
200
205
210
Oil drain
215
Thermostatic 3-way-valve
220
2400
HP-receiver
2405
Vent valve
Approximate values for the required height difference between HP receiver and condenser
Pressure loss of condenser
(in Pa)
5,000
0.9
10,000
1.9
20,000
3.7
30,000
5.5
40,000
7.3
50,000
9.1
Recommended velocities
Liquid line
Pipe 1 (7)
Vapour line
Pipe 2 (6)
Hint!
Additional fittings (valves) and longer pipework in lines 1 or 2 will increase the height difference.
The vapour line, pipe 2 (6), needs to be constantly ascending above the inlet for the condenser.
No dead ends may be created!
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1.12 Water quality requirements, parameters
All water bearing components of GEA Refrigeration Germany GmbH give an optimum performance and maximum
protection from corrosion, if you meet all recommended limiting values of VDI 3803 issue 2010-02 (Tab. B3) for
non-corrosive water and adequate water conditioning.
Hint!
If you dont meet following rules for limiting values of non-corrosive water GEA Refrigeration
Germany GmbH can not give warranty for water contacted components.
All components are designed for use with non-corrosive water. Water and glycol brine analysis
is essential in protecting system components. Analyses prior to start up will prevent corrosion.
Following are shown required limiting values of VDI 3803, for use of carbon steel components in non corrosive
water systems.
Appearance
Colour
colourless
Odour
without
pH-level at 20C
7.5 - 9.0
Electrical conductivity
LF
2+
2+
mS/m
< 220
mol/m
< 0.5
Soil alkali
Ca , Mg
GH
< 20
KH
<4
Chloride
Cl
g/m
< 150
Sulphur
SO4
g/m
< 325
KBE
per ml
< 10,000
Thickness factor
EZ
2-4
The use of carbon steel and cast iron required in the most of applications water conditioning with corrosion inhibitors.
The use of stainless steel requires very special monitoring of water in apply to Chloride contents (risk of stress
crack and pitting corrosion).
Hint!
Recommend for use fo plate heat exchangers in refrigerant circuit
< 100 ppm Cl for the use of 1.4301 and maximum 40C wall temperatures in the plate heat exchanger.
< 200 ppm Cl for the use of 1.4401 and maximal 100C wall temperature in the plate heat exchanger.
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Hint!
Manufacturer recommendation: Use uncontaminated cooling agents and cooling media, in particular in chillers and the use of plate heat exchangers.
The media quality needs to be assured through an appropriate filter on the inlet to the heat exchanger. The mesh of such filters needs to be 0.9mm!
Should the chiller remain in operations through filter cleaning, then double filters need to be
installed. Pressure loss due the filter need to taken into consideration when designing the
pump configuration.
GEA Refrigeration Germany GmbH recommends enlisting the services of a reputable water conditioning company.
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