HVAC Case Study
Food Processing Plant

Challenge

The intense heat of Mexico in summer combined with a modern manufacturing facility that required a high proportion of outside air, provided a challenge to economically pre-cool large volumes of intake air prior to its introduction to existing air handling systems.

Solution: Climate Wizard Pre-Cooling

Summer temperatures well above 40 °C (104 °F) meant that a large proportion of the existing air handling unit (AHU) capacity was employed in pre-cooling the outside air and not addressing the internal machine and solar heat load. The addition of a Climate Wizard model CW-160 air conditioner to pre-cool 11,800 L/s (25,000 cfm) at a very high coefficient of performance compared to the existing plant, very significantly reduced the operating energy costs. The addition also provided up to 320 kW (1,092 kbtu/hr) of extra sensible cooling capacity, should that be needed to meet future heat loads.