The city of Manchester NH was faced with an issue that the older R22 refrigeration ice plant had reached and exceeded it’s useful life. Recent refrigerant leaks in the past years had caused expensive repairs to recharge the systems with the now phased out R22. The city worked with the local New Hampshire manufacturer Emerald Environmental to provide a performance specification based on ICE3 modular chillers. The RFP was a design build request with just the minimum or specifications. Preferred was the successful bidder and performed a design build scope.
After months of operation the City realized a 40% reduction in utility costs. Contingency monies were then employed to reclaim heat from the cubes and preheat Zamboni Hot Water. The 80% efficient boilers were removed and downsized with New High efficiency water hears installed sourced from storage tanks heated by the cubes.
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