CENTRO SAMBIL MALL
CARACAS, VENEZUELA

Centro Sambil Mall is a premier shopping mall located in downtown Caracas, Venezuela. Ballard Engineering’s reputation for cogeneration system design led to mall developers hiring Ballard to provide the engineering for the power system and chilled water plant to run this mall.

The 9.5 MW power plant consists of 9 Waukesha gas fired engines that run 24 hours a day. There is heat recovery on 6 of these engines that provide hot water to run 1400 tons of absorption cooling. The chilled water plant also has 1400 tons of high efficiency centrifugal chillers. All of the electricity and chilled water for the mall is produced in the power plant. In a country where electricity is both expensive and unreliable, cogeneration can be the difference between the success and failure of a venture.

Centro Sambil Mall

 

Centro Sambil Mall

THE CULVER EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
CULVER, INDIANA

Culver Academy is a college prep residential high school located in rural Indiana. To combat rising energy costs, update its boiler system, and provide greater reliability in its electrical generation, Culver Academy installed a cogeneration system. The 1.1 MW system consists of two 525 kW Waukesha natural gas fired engines that are capable of producing 5,200 lbs./hr of low-pressure steam. Steam is used for campus heating in the winter and for a 400 ton absorption chiller in the cooling season. The system is designed for parallel and stand alone operation.

Culver Engine Room

 

Culver Boilers

 

Culver Switchgear

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