Post by Johan Oberg

Here's a thought. Why pay to generate new heat when its already being producing and then thrown away? Many conventional chillers extract heat from indoor spaces and reject it outdoors. That rejected heat is real energy with real value, and in the vast majority of buildings worldwide, it's simply wasted. At the same time, separate systems often burn energy to create heat somewhere else. This is where things can start to shift. Our new YORK YK-HT two-stage economized centrifugal chiller changes how that equation works. It can produce 44-degree chilled water and 140-degree hot water simultaneously, which exceeds ASHRAE efficiency requirements. Instead of treating heating and cooling as two separate challenges, it brings them together into one single driveline. The impact shows up quickly at scale. A set up like this can offset more than 35 MMBtu of thermal energy per hour, which is roughly the heating demand of 350 homes. That means facilities like data centers, hospitals, and large campuses can recover and reuse energy that would have otherwise been wasted. Instead, the waste heat could do things like be redirected to warm nearby buildings or feed a district heating loop. Check out this blog to dive deeper on what the YK-HT can mean for mission critical facilities that require reliable performance in demanding conditions. https://on.jci.com/4g610QQ