Fifty years of district cooling and beyond: Continuous redundancy and efficiency improvements are a hallmark of the University of Rochester's chilled-water system

摘要

The University of Rochester, located along the Genesee River in Rochester, N.Y., has been producing chilled water for campus buildings since the mid-1960s. The university's original chiller plant, installed in the heart of the campus as an expansion to the Central Utilities Plant, was able to satisfy the demands of the growing university for nearly 40 years before major upgrades were needed. This plant continues to produce chilled water for the campus; but with a constantly increasing demand for cooling and the evolving options and increasing efficiencies of new chilled-water equipment, the university recently embarked on expansion projects focused on increasing system redundancy and energy efficiency.