Chil-Pak: Modular Central Plants for Data Centers and other facilities

The Chil-Pak team had the opportunity to assist with an energy efficient cooling strategy for a school project in Florida.  Chil-Pak manufactured and helped design a 540 ton packaged chilled water plant for the educational facility.  The packaged chilled water plant was part of a solution that included a dual mode ice storage.   The system took advantage of lower electricity rates in the evening period to create ice, so that this could in turn be used to assist with the cooling load during the peak demand period.

If you are interested in applying Chil-Pak’s cost saving packaged chilled water plants in your district contact info@chil-pak.com

Chil-Pak has made an official announcement today regarding their new line of standardized solutions.  The new line of packaged chilled water plants (i.e. modular chilled water plants) builds on years of design experience of hundreds of central plants.  The new standardized product will be known as the MARK series.  The rationale behind maintaining the MARK series nomenclature was explained by Harold Simmons, Global Director of Strategy:

“After wrestling through various names for the new standardized product line, Chil-Pak decided to build on the already strong reputation of the MARK tradename.  The MARK series has always been about meeting the clients needs with an off the shelf packaged central plant design and it is our intention to continue the tradition with the new MARK product offerings.  One of the biggest improvements to the new family of products is that now we are able to provide up to 800 tons of cooling in a single module with a standardized form factor.  While Chil-Pak will continue to provide solutions to our clients with larger cooling needs of up to 6000+ tons, the MARK series is a tangible solution for  our clients who have a smaller load, but desire to take advantage of the convenience and cost savings of a modular chilled water plant.”

To learn more about how the Chil-Pak team can provide your organization with a high quality packaged chilled water plant contact info@chil-pak.com

As one of the industry’s leading engineering integrators and manufacturers Chil-Pak has made it a practice to implement advanced technology into their systems.  This has been seen most recently in their designs that include Combined Cooling Heating and Power (CCHP) as part of an overall solution.

The drawing below shows a 2000 ton system with an integrated cogen solution:

To learn more about how your company’s future data centers can take advantage of this technology in a modular fully integrated solution contact hsimmons@chil-pak.com

Chil-Pak has been engineering and designing packaged chilled water plants for over ten years. Throughout this time Chil-Pak has had the opportunity to serve clients by providing modular central plants on facilities throughout the world. One vertical market that Chil-Pak has been in demand in is the mission critical or data center marketplace. As the data center industry continues to mature there are more players seeking to develop modular chilled water plants, however, the Chil-Pak team has the experience of engineering, designing, manufacturing, and deploying hundreds of central plants over the past decade. One of the main reasons that the Chil-Pak offering has become more and more in demand in the data center space is due to the opportunity to apply a phased modularity strategy to the data center build out. This phased modularity approach allows the end user to defer some of the infrastructure CAPEX until there is actually a compute demand for additional space.

If your company is looking for a strategic way to build out your data center and want the reliability of chilled water then contact hsimmons@chil-pak.com for all of your supply water needs.

Chil-Pak has been providing packaged central plants for facilities for over the last ten years. In the last few years more and more data centers have been applying these cost saving solutions. As a result of this, Chil-Pak has developed the design assist program for technology companies who are interested in taking advantage of a fully integrated modular chilled water plant. Not only does this solution provide a significant CAPEX savings, but there are also engineering solutions that the Chil-Pak team has integrated into their systems that provide significant OPEX savings as well.

To learn more about how your next data center can take advantage of a modular chilled water plant contact hsimmons@chil-pak.com

One of the interesting trends in the construction industry in general is the movement toward modularity.  You might even say that “modularity” is the buzz word of the moment.  That being said, Chil-Pak has been designing and manufacturing modular chilled water plants for over ten years.  In recent years the data center industry has been thinking through various ways to defer capital investments until the facility needs to expand.  One of data center projects that Chil-Pak was recently involved in was for an enterprise data center.  The data center was at it’s capacity with regards to chilled water and therefore needed to increase the chilled water capacity of the mission critical facility; however, the owner of the facility wanted to defer as much of the capital expense as possible.  The solution to the dilemma of needing to expand their data center, but keep costs down was to implement a phased modularity approach.  This is where the Chil-Pak team was brought in to design and manufacture a modular chilled water plant.  The modularity of the Chil-Pak solution allowed the end user to add the exact amount of cooling needed and to expand over time.  The images below show how this data center cooling solution was implemented:

To learn how Chil-Pak can provide a strategic solution for the chilled water cooling on your data center contact hsimmons@chil-pak.com

Some members of the Chil-Pak data center solution team  will be at the upcoming Data Center World Conference presented by AFCOM.  They will be in booth #532 presenting some of their modular chilled water plant solutions for data centers.

If you have a data center where you are hoping to modular chilled water plants into the cooling strategy contact  hsimmons@chil-pak.com to schedule a meeting at the data center conference.

Over the last decade Chil-Pak has become the preferred manufacturer and designer of modular chilled water plants for schools.  In some ways it would be nice to say that this was some part of a master strategy that the Chil-Pak sales team had dreamed up, but the reality is that the vast majority of Chil-Pak‘s school projects have come as a result of being referred by another school and/or district.   While the dream of master strategy sounds nice on paper, being referrable is even better.  Chil-Pak has built their reputation in the school market (and others as well i.e. data center, medical, manufacturing, aviation, etc…) by rigidly adhering to three principles:

1. Chil-Pak Shows Up on Time–While any company can say these words, Chil-Pak has over a decade  of actually doing so by meeting critical building deadlines.  In fact, Chil-Pak has often been awarded projects as a result of other manufacturers over-promising on delivery schedule and then failing to meet deadlines.  Once the client goes through the experience and capital loss of a late project they are very eager to work with a team that has a long reputation of delivering.  One of the reasons that Chil-Pak shows up on time is because we seek to be extremely accurate in our delivery schedule.  We do not promise a chilled water plant in “x” weeks and then show up three weeks later.
2. Chil-Pak Does What They Say–There are many people in the construction world who think that all the matters is the immediate project and will do whatever it takes to get that project even if it means misleading the client.  Chil-Pak never has and never will operate this way.  The Chil-Pak team seeks to be a valuable team member of the design build team (engineers, contractors, etc..) by providing high quality manufactured and designed packaged chilled water plants.  If Chil-Pak promises you various components in your modular chilled water plants that is exactly what you will get.  Chil-Pak provides the quality and functionality that the client and engineering team have requested in the most economical way possible.
3. Chil-Pak Finishes What They Start–The Chil-Pak team is committed to making sure projects are successful for the end user and design build team.

To learn more about how Chil-Pak can provide your facility with a high quality modular chilled water plant contact hsimmons@chil-pak.com

In many ways the  industrial revolution at it’s core was a movement away from time intensive onsite work toward modular off site assembly.  This movement toward modularity was a means of improving quality control, reducing cost, and the standardizing of components.  As Henry Ford demonstrated with his assembly line approach to automobile manufacturing there is great room for the customer to experience significant CAPEX savings  when the process can be controlled and customized options minimized.  Nowadays due to improvement in supply chain logistics and the maturation of manufacturing philosophy, manufactures are able to provide clients with just in time products as well as mass customized solutions.  Chil-Pak was founded by a team of manufacturing experts and engineers who were well acquainted with the most innovative processes for fabrication excellence, design innovation, and manufacturing expertise.  As a result of this unique combination of skills and industry know how, Chil-Pak has separated itself from the rest of the central plant market.  Their design expertise and manufacturing experience has led Chil-Pak to become the standard for packaged chilled water plants.  Much like Ford with the automobile they have been able to provide significant CAPEX savings to clients who are in need of chilled water plants.  And with their engineering expertise they have delivered these fully integrated packaged central plants to the marketplace without the sacrifice of quality control and excellent engineering.

To learn more about how you as an engineer, contractor, or building owner can take advantage of this movement toward modularity with regards central chilled water  plants contact hsimmons@chil-pak.com

A Global 200 Company that integrated Chil-Pak’s packaged chilled water plant into their cooling strategy was recently awarded LEED Gold.  The Chil-Pak modular chilled water plant was a portion of an overall strategy for maximizing energy efficiency at the facility.

For the last 10 years Chil-Pak has been providing clients with modular chilled water plants.  By fully integrating the pumps, piping, chillers and all components traditionally found in a built up central plant into modular enclosures Chil-Pak has been able to reduce lead times on projects, provide high quality factory tested chilled water plants, provide significant CAPEX savings to end users, and absorb the problems typically associated with built up central plants.

Chil-Pak provides several lines of standard chilled water plants  in addition to larger semi-customized plants. To learn more about how your company can leverage the benefits of Chil-Pak’s modular chilled water plants contact hsimmons@chil-pak.com