by Rebecca Walker — March 11, 2011—York has introduced the YVAA air-cooled variable-speed screw chiller, designed to be the world’s most environmentally friendly chiller. The company says its efficiency, sustainable and low sound set it apart.
With the industry’s lowest kW/Ton at both full-load design and off-design conditions, the YVAA chiller ensures maximum efficiency under all operating conditions. On replacement projects, YVAA energy performance can exceed older models by as much as 50 percent, while performance on new projects can exceed competitors by up to 25 percent.
This chiller’s performance can even be tailored and tuned to hit specific targets for state, municipal or utility rebates, where available, notes York.
The YVAA chiller makes a facility more sustainable by limiting the amount of refrigerant emitted into the atmosphere and by minimizing power plant CO2 emissions
The YVAA chiller uses HFC-134a refrigerant, which has no phase-out date and an ozone-depletion potential of zero. Fewer joints and potential leak points keep the refrigerant inside the system, while a proprietary falling-film evaporator and advanced microchannel condenser coils reduce the refrigerant charge by as much as 15 percent.
The YVAA chiller also provides superior sound performance through a variety of sound-attenuation options. It has a SilentNight feature which works with a BAS (or programmable control) to load-limit the chiller when noise reduction is a priority.
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