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topic it's a very elusive subject especially for hvac professionals working in the construction
or the consulting end of the industry more specifically in this video i'll be walking you
through a hands-on application a hands-on example for how to calculate the chilled water flow rate
for your hvac chiller system now if you're not familiar with the chiller system what it is what
how it works what are the various components we do have multiple videos on our channel just make
sure that you take a look at the suggested videos and the videos at the end of this current video
in which you learn about the various components and everything that you need to know basically
about how the system works and how it operates now in this current video like i've mentioned
we have a specific example and one of the most important design aspects for chilled water
hvac system which is the chilled water flow rate how do you calculate the chilled water
flow rate for your chiller plant such that you are able to provide the required amount of
cooling requirements in order to satisfy the design criteria for your space
so i'll be showing you an example on the how to calculate the required chilled water
flow rate for your hvac system now at this point make sure that you click subscribe in order to
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within the application within the example i'll be giving you a practice problem that you need
to do in order to make sure that you are familiar with the plaque practice and the application once
you're done with the practice problem make sure that you put the answer in the comment section
below in order for you to compare it with the rest of the channel community members just to
make sure that you are comfortable and familiar with the calculation steps and process so let's
just simply get right to it and jump into the example so we're going to have an example on
the calculation for the chilled water flow rate let's say you have a building we're going to
sketch a building to represent a real life um scenario and this could be any building it
could be a four-story building 10-story building 15-story building respectively our main concern is
just simply to properly apply the principle of the flow rate calculation for your application because
it's a very important concept and principle for any engineer especially an hvac engineer in
the field let's say this is basically a building and for my building i'm going to
keep it simple i'm going to have a single air cooled chiller for
example at the top of the building and let's put some words for this current
problem let's say i have a current building which requires 350 tons of cooling the complete
building requires 350 tons of cooling to meet the cooling load requirements for the application now the first step
that you need to do for any hvac design is basically conducting the proper load
calculations that's the first step which is actually the initial step that you need to
do before you are able to actually conduct the fluorite calculations and do anything related to
further design application you need to be able to find this value that's the first step any designer
is going to do now if you're not familiar with the load calculations what are cooling load
calculations how to go about the process in the description of this video i've left you
a coupon for 70 off on one of our master classes on the academy elite educational professional
academy that you can use to grasp the concept and learn how to go about it because this is an
essential necessary step within the field of the hvac let's assume that you're familiar with load
calculations you are able to obtain the required load calculations for various applications
and you got to this point where you have a building and for your building you managed
to find out that you need 350 tons of cooling to satisfy the requirements of your space cooling
load requirements so the question is what is the required chilled water flow rate that will
satisfy the cooling requirements and provide me with that 350 tons of cooling let's put some
colors here now take a look at the chiller i'm going to use blue just to represent the
supply line in this case for every single floor approximately we're going to have such a civil
representation where the blue line represents the supply of the cold water and the red line is
going to represent the return line now keeping them quite far away from each other just simply
for visual purposes but normally they are quite um closer than the current representation but
just simply to help you get the idea so we have a supply line we have a return line and the
application would require a specific flow rate right the cold water that should be flowing
in my network in order to provide me with my cooling requirements so the first thing the
first formula that should be applied or should be kept in mind is the basic heat transfer
formula where you have q equals to m dot cp delta t we were just simply brushing up on this
formula to help you recap where it came from now in the previous video explain with details
what the importance of the formula and how it leads to the flow rate calculations
now this is basically the q is for the heat transfer right m dot is the mass
flow rate cp is basically the specific heat capacity of water and delta t which is an
important value here which is the temperature difference between the supply and return lines
these lines basically the supply and return the blue and red now delta t this value like we have
mentioned in the previous video delta t is going to be 6.67 degrees celsius for commercial building
or for a residential building within a specific region and for every every single region within
the world you can refer to your current standard in order to be able to identify your delta t
which has been documented through trial and error and experimentation this equals to 12 degrees
fahrenheit now the conversion is quite simple you can just simply apply the conversions on the
side to go from degrees celsius to fahrenheit so what we need to do now this formula in the
application is simplified such that we have q equals to the tons of cooling times 24 over delta t now this q do not confuse
it with the heat transfer this is going to be the gallons per minute okay you can just name it
whatever you want to name it this formula here for the genetic formula for the heat transfer has been
simplified we're going to avoid the simplification because we just simply care about what we use in
the practice to actually calculate the acquired flow rate this formula that theoretical formula
the fundamental formula for the heat transfer has been simplified in order to have this formula
where we have q is basically gallons per minute in this case tr is the tons of cooling that we have
this current problem which is going to be 350 tons 24 is basically a conversion factor as
we simplify the formula mentioned earlier delta t is going to be in fahrenheit this
formula is important to highlight this formula is for the english system of units pounds
gallons per minute feet square feet cube etc if you need the si system of units where we have
meters seconds watts kilowatts you can refer to the previous video i'm going to put the link in
the suggestions at the top you can refer to the previous video and you can use the formula
presented in there as well depending on the application if you need the english system of
units you can use this formula if you need the si system unit you can use the other formula
that we have mentioned in the previous video now it's a matter of crunching numbers so
i have q which i need to find it equals to tr which is the tons of cooling grease is going
to be 350 tons times 24 which is the convergent factor divided by delta t which is this 12
degrees fahrenheit now delta t is obtained from standards and application for the commercial
building that i have in front of me right now delta t is equal the difference between the
supply and return is 6.67 degrees celsius which equivalent to 12 degrees fahrenheit now if you
crunch in the numbers 350 times 24 divided by 12 you will have 700 gallons per minute that would
mean in order to provide 350 tons of cooling in order to provide 350 tons of cooling for my
building i need to deliver within the network that we have i need to deliver 700 gallons per minute
of chilled water so this is basically that the flow rate that needs to be delivered by my piping
network for the chilled water system in order to meet the cooling load requirements now let's have
a small example for you that you to practice on what i want you to do is basically apply the
previous steps for the current example and in this example we're going to do you're going to
apply the same steps you're going to calculate the value and after you find the value go ahead
on the comment section leave your answer to check and compare with the rest of the channel members
whether your answer is correct so let's do let's do the question and you can apply
what we have talked about so far and you can just simply map the steps and check
if you understood the concept assume you need 500 tons of cooling requirements requirement for
a commercial building okay now delta t is going to be 12 degrees fahrenheit
i'm going to make it straight forward for you this value of delta t i've given you the value but
based on your country based on the region that you're at you should refer to the standards
within the handbook such as ashrae handbook or different standardized approaches within your
country or region because different parts of the world they have different applications
for delta t however they are documented in handbooks that you can just simply get such as
ashley hambrook and you can open it and take a look at your current country or region and what
is the utilized delta t but for this current application i'm giving you this value delta
t which is going to be 12 degrees fahrenheit okay and i assume you need 500 tons of cooling
requirements for your commercial building delta t is 12 degrees fahrenheit
that question would be calculate the flow rate for your chilled water system which is needed in
order to satisfy the cooling load requirements so like i've mentioned you're going to apply
the same steps that we have covered earlier and check if you are familiar and you are
comfortable with the concept after doing so you are going to put your findings in the
comments section to check basically that you are comfortable with the requirements you
have applied the steps correctly and most importantly you have got the correct answer
so at this current time if you have found this explanation and the video beneficial just make
sure that you click subscribe and you like the video in order to stay tuned and updated with
upcoming um insights on so we have completed the example now you should be familiar with the steps
that you need to do in order to properly size or design the acquired chilled water flow rate
for your chiller application now for the practice problem that we've talked about towards the end
of the example make sure that you solve it you can write it down on a piece of paper follow the
same steps once you're done leave your answer in the comments below in order to compare and make
sure that you are on the right track also i've left for you in the course description a coupon
for the master class on load calculations like i've mentioned is a very important step initial
step for any part of the hvac design you should be familiar with the process of conducting load
calculations it's a necessity for any practitioner in the hvac discipline so i truly hope that
you found this video beneficial you you're more comfortable now with the steps that you
need to follow if you are on track and if you found this video beneficial make sure that
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