Hospitality retrofit

Equatorial Hotel

A chiller plant retrofit combining SMARDT oil-free equipment with CPECS controls for an operating hotel.

Client: Equatorial Hotel
Location: Ho Chi Minh City
Retrofit period: Available on request
Chiller capacity: 450 RT
Scope: Chiller + CPECS

Results

The outcomes in context.

Replacement chiller: 450 RT

Original saving target: 30%

First four months: consumption: 67,830 kWh/month

Project story

From the operating brief to the handover.

The challenge

Understand what needed to change.

The existing Trane plant operated at approximately COP 4.5, with no VFD on the pumps or cooling towers, and reported annual electricity use of 2,112,000 kWh.

Our solution

Coordinate the plant as one system.

APC selected a SMARDT oil-free chiller and CPECS control of the chilled-water pumps, condenser-water pumps and cooling towers. The Cooling Division profile records a 450 RT installation.

The result

Review the documented outcome.

The reference reports approximately 67,830 kWh per month of plant electricity consumption over the first four months. The original proposal expected 30% savings; the monthly figure is consumption, not energy saved.

Before & after