Natural gas engine-driven chillers

Technical Report · Thu Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1987

OSTI ID:5818993

GRI's effort to develop commercial gas-engine-driven cooling products is built around the use of automotive spark-ignition engines modified for continuous use on natural gas. The concept involves substitution of a gas-fueled engine for an electric motor to drive a vapor-compression cooling cycle. GRI is sponsoring the development of 150-ton and 500-ton packaged gas-engine-driven chillers and packaged direct-expansion rooftop air-conditioning units in the 10- to 75-ton capacity range. Field testing of seven prototype 150-ton chillers will start in the summer of 1987 at several commercial sites. Plans are underway for the field testing of the gas-engine-driven centrifugal chiller in 1988 and the rooftop units in 1989.

• Research Organization: Gas Research Inst., Chicago, IL (USA)
• OSTI ID: 5818993
• Report Number(s): PB-88-123104/XAB; GRI-87/0295
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

03 NATURAL GAS
034000* -- Natural Gas-- Combustion
33 ADVANCED PROPULSION SYSTEMS
330101 -- Internal Combustion Engines-- Spark-Ignition
AIR CONDITIONING
COGENERATION
COMMERCIAL SECTOR
COOLING
COOLING SYSTEMS
DEUS
ENERGY SOURCES
ENERGY SYSTEMS
ENGINES
FLUIDS
FOSSIL FUELS
FUEL GAS
FUELS
GAS FUELS
GASES
HEAT ENGINES
INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINES
NATURAL GAS
POWER GENERATION
STEAM GENERATION
VAPOR COMPRESSION REFRIGERATION CYCLE