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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">If the chillers are running, the towers must also be running or else the condenser water would be getting very warm! As John A mentioned your files would help, or at least let us know which of the outputs makes
you think the towers are not operating, or screen shots of the cooling tower dialog box.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">One possible scenario is that you have some combination of high condenser water setpoint (causes towers to run less than if the water temperature is reset to a lower value) and efficient tower fans (kW/cell may
be too low). The kW/cell in particular could be entered incorrectly, allowing your tower to run while not accumulating many kWh of end-use.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">David</span><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> equest-users-bounces@lists.onebuilding.org [mailto:equest-users-bounces@lists.onebuilding.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Gabriel M. Martinez<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, November 20, 2013 10:46 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> equest-users@lists.onebuilding.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Equest-users] Equest Cooling Towers<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi, newbie eQuest user. I have modeled a fairly straight-forward loop that consists of multiple chillers and cooling towers. However, when I run the model, the chillers are running as they should but the cooling towers are not running at
all, all year round. I tried running it with and without a tower water loop pump, to no avail. The fans are on VFDs. Any suggestions?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Gabe Martinez<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Mechanical Designer<o:p></o:p></p>
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