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Posted by on June 27, 2007, 7:14 am
>Wanted to see if anyone has heard of this application, and possible
>shed some light on it.
>
>I was previously planning on installing a 20-ton water-cooled Liebert
>into a city highrise building. Unfortunately, we are finding out the
>cooling loop only has the capacity for about 5-tons, and the cost to
>install a new loop is very high.
>
>However, the space I looking at run right up to an exterior wall with
>windows. I have seen other people in the building vent through the
>window. So I am assuming they are venting on air-cooled condenser.
>
>Now I have only seen the more traditional outside or roof mount
>condensers, but I sounds like this window vent environment is unique,
>are there special air-cooled condensers that have been designed to
>work in this sort or environment?
>
>Like I said, I saw another tenant doing this, but I not sure of the
>specifics. Maybe its not an air-cooled condenser, maybe it is very
>small water-chiller, etc.,.
>
>If anyone can shed light on this environment for highrise tenants with
>adequete space for window venting (its a 12-story industrial type
>building) let me know. We are to far from roof for a roof mounted
>condensing unit, and the cost of a new cooling loop is too high. I am
>hoping there is a way to leverage this window venting access in my
>benefit to easily bring 20-tons of cooling into the space.
>
>Thanks
>John
what do you have budgeted for such a project?
How big are the windows and how many?
Is the leibert for space conditioning or a data center?
Thru the wall condensers have been around for years, its just a matter
of adapting such a system to your liebert.
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