<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Here at UofMichigan, we have two distinct process chilled water (PCW) loops (with redundant pump capacity) that serve various sections of our cleanroom. Both of these PCW loops are fabricated from CPVC materials, polished to ~1Meg-Ohm for resistivity, filled with RO water, and have UV lamps and filters for "cleaning" them up. Both of them reject their heat load into the central campus chiller loop through plate/frame heat exchangers. The only time we'll install a local chiller (heat exchanger) is if we need some special fluid, or much better temperature control (heat and cool), and even then those local units will be configured to be water-water so that their heat load goes into our PCW, and not into our clean air-stream.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">You have an interesting dilemma.... What type of capacity do you need, what quality of water, how long do you expect to be in the same location? All of these questions will affect the decision. I too would lean towards option #2, with a redundant pump system. It's the best long term solution. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div>Dennis<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> Schweiger</div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">University of Michigan/LNF</div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">Facilities</div></div><div> </div><div>734.647.2055 Ofc</div></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Fri, Aug 31, 2018 at 10:32 AM Kevin McPeak <<a href="mailto:kmcpeak@lsu.edu">kmcpeak@lsu.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">Dear Colleagues,<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">The central chilled water pump at the facility where the LSU cleanroom is housed died earlier this week. Facilities told me that they have no plans for replacing the pump. The cost is too high (15K) and most of the beamline endstations (our cleanroom lives inside of a synchrotron) have switched to local chillers.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">So I have two options:</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">1). Buy 4 small chillers for an e-beam evaporator, SEM, ICP, sputtering system. This number will grow in the future.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">2). Buy one large chiller and connect it to the existing 2" diameter cooling pipe network that is plumbed around the cleanroom perimeter.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I lean towards option #2 but it is less flexible than #1 and could put us in the same situation we are in now (e.g. most machines down) in the case of a failure.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">The infastructure of our cleanroom is about 25 years old. So I wanted to ask the list members to get a more modern take on chilled water. Do modern cleanrooms use central chilled water systems or is the local chiller model more popular given the added flexibility and more distributed failure model?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Thanks!</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Regards,</div><div dir="auto">Kevin</div><div dir="auto"><br><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature" dir="auto">--<br>Kevin McPeak<br>Assistant Professor<br>Department of Chemical Engineering<br>Louisiana State University<br>email: <a href="mailto:kmcpeak@lsu.edu" target="_blank">kmcpeak@lsu.edu</a><br>phone: 225-578-0058</div></div></div>
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