J Centre Mall: Preliminary Energy Audit Report

In Requirements of the subject:

EG 543: ENERGY UTILIZATION

Title of Report:

EXECUTIVE ENERGY AUDIT REPORT

Submitted by:

GROUP 1

Members
Engr. Anthony John P Peregrina
Engr. Mark John Dela Cruz
Engr. Tony Rey Escalona
Engr. John Larry Corpuz
Engr. Joshua Malajito
Engr. Eric Macalolot
Engr. Carl Nohay

December 2019

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T A B L E O F C O N T E N T

Executive Summary ....................................................................................................... 3

Introduction .................................................................................................................... 4
General..................................................................................................................... 4
Objective .................................................................................................................. 4
Preliminary Findings ............................................................................................... 4
Present Situation ............................................................................................................ 6
Expected savings............................................................................................................ 7
Conclusion ..................................................................................................................... 8
Our Proposal ................................................................................................................. 9
Scope of Work .............................................................................................................. 9
Proposal Fee ................................................................................................................ 11

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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Beyond Energy Solutions Technology Incorporated, a member of the Primer Group was
invited through the Building Administration to do a walk-through audit for J CENTRE
MALL in Mandaue City, Cebu to estimate the potential savings on all high energy
consumption equipment.
The Key Qualified Person involve in the walk through are Bienvenido Gonzales, General
manager, together with Engr. Mark Agoyaoy from Stellar Equipment and Machinery, Inc.
The primary focus in this preliminary audit is on the air conditioning Chiller Plant room
System.
Since J Centre Mall has an intention of reducing energy consumption using minimum
effort and investment to reap the highest possible amount of savings, by first targeting the
chiller plant room is the best approach.
During the preliminary study and data gathered on August 5 and August 6, 2016, a
potential operating cost savings of Php 5.4 million per year was identified using the
Energy Service Company ESCO benchmark and ASHRAE Journal as a reference. A
more detailed saving pattern can only be obtained upon Detailed Energy Audit Exercise
using instrumentation tools to perform data acquisition at 1-minute interval is carried out
to zoom into the energy wastage root causes and to identify energy conservation
opportunities in a more accurate and factual basis.

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INTRODUCTION
General
Beyond Energy Solutions Technology Incorporated was invited to carry out a walk thru audit at J
CENTRE MALL, MANDAUE CEBU on 23rd July 2016.
For walk thru audit, the main areas that had been looked into were the Chiller Plant room
Systems.

Objective
The main objective of this exercise is as follows:
1. To have a preliminary understanding of the operating System Efficiency of the
existing chiller plant room system.
2. To identify energy conservation opportunities and the potential savings.

Preliminary Findings
The J CENTRE MALL has 4 units of Trane centrifugal water-cooled chillers, each with a
capacity of 500 tons of refrigeration (TR). Two units are operational and the two other units are
not used because of the need to have it repaired. Normally one chiller is operated to supply chilled
water to all air handlings units and fan coil units that serve the designated areas of the mall during
weekdays, Monday to Friday. The chiller is started at around 9:00 AM and turned off at around
8:00 PM. From 8:00 PM to 11:00 PM only the chilled water pumps continue to operate to supply
chilled water to the areas of the mall that are still operating until the mall fully closes at 11:00
PM. During weekends, Saturday and Sunday, up to two chillers are operated. The first chiller is
started at around 9:00 AM and the second chiller is started at 3:00 PM. Two chillers operate
together from 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM. From 6 PM onwards, only 1 chiller is kept in operation and is
turned off at around 8:00 PM. Likewise, only the chilled water pumps continue to operate
between 8:00 PM to 11:00 PM until the mall closes.
The chillers have been in operation for about 5 years. During the preliminary walk thru, the single
chiller operation has problems to meet the set point supply chilled water temperature and that the
chilled water temperature rises from the AHUs is less that the 10 F designed temperature rise.
The areas of improvement are summarized as follows:
1) The designed chiller efficiency is acceptable; however, we observed the condenser
approach temperature is high (ranges from 5 F to 6 F). The acceptable range should be 1F
to 2F. We believe the chiller efficiency has suffered a loss of about 9% because of this
poor heat transfer coefficient.

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2) The primary chilled water and secondary chilled water pumps are running in series piping
configuration since there is no by-pass de-coupler piping. This can cause unstable flows
and pressure fluctuations which can lead to unnecessary losses if the system is not
properly balanced. The chilled water piping distribution network needs to be re-evaluated.
3) The existing pump head (TDH) of 140 feet for the condenser pump is observed to be in
excess considering that the cooling towers are located beside the chiller plant room in the
roof deck. Unless there is a valid reason for providing the larger TDH, the condenser
piping can be re-evaluated and retrofitted to reduce the pump TDH and lower the pump
horsepower and energy consumption.
4) There is a potential savings of 40% in the energy cost for the chilled water and condenser
pumps after the re-evaluation of the piping and distribution system.
5) It was observed that the chilled water temperature rise from the AHUs ranges from 7.9F
to 9F. This is below the 10F design standard which may indicate excessive chilled water
flow.
6) The cooling tower efficiencies and condenser water piping to cooling towers have to be
evaluated. It was observed that more than 1 set of cooling tower is operated when there is
only 1 chiller running resulting to the operation of more cooling tower fans than required.
It is estimated to have at least 35% savings in cooling tower fan power consumption if
this is corrected.
7) There is no Central Control Logic to command chiller equipment and pumps to operate at
their most optimize zone when it comes to weather and cooling load fluctuation. The
chiller plant runs on manual basis.
8) There is a need to upgrade the pressure gauges and temperature gauges to accurately
monitor pressure and temperature on both chilled water and condenser water circuits.

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Present Situation
Plant room System Efficiency obtained during preliminary walk through at Site

Chiller Chiller Existing Design

Sub-Total Recommended
System System Equipment
Kw Kw/Ton
#1 #2 Kw/Ton
CHILLERS
Designed Chillers Full Load (Tons) 500 500 1000
Designed Chillers Full Load Power, (kw) 300 300 600
Designed Chilled water Temp, Leaving ( F ) 44 44
Designed Chilled Water Temp, Return, ( F ) 54 54
0.60 < 0.60
Designed Condenser Water Temp, Leaving ( F ) 95 95
Designed Condenser Water Temp, Return, ( F ) 85 85
Designed Chilled water Flow Rate, GPM 1200 1200
Designed Condenser Water Flow Rate, GPM 1500 1500
PUMPS
Primary Chilled Water Pumps Kw 18.5 18.5 37
0.04 < 0.03
Primary Chilled Water Pumps VSD (Yes/No)
If yes, what is the average frequency (Hz)
Secondary Chilled Water Pumps Kw 55 55 110
0.11 < 0.06
Secondary Chilled Water Pumps VSD (Yes/No)
If yes, what is the average frequency (Hz)
Condenser Chilled Water Pumps Kw 75 75 150
0.15 < 0.11
Condenser Chilled Water Pumps VSD (Yes/No)
If yes, what is the average frequency (Hz)
Cooling Towers
Cooling tower fan Motor Kw 55
0.05 < 0.03
Fan Motor VSD (Yes/No)
If yes, what is the average frequency (Hz)
DESIGNED SYSTEM EFFICIENCY 0.95 < 0.83

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Target
Current

ASHRAE Standard 90.1 For Chiller Efficiency

Current Identified Potential Savings

Existing kwhr Per Year 2,101,316

Operating Cost Per Year PHP 17,861,186.00

Retrofitted kwhr Per Year 1,462,072

Retrofitted Operating Cost Per Year PHP 12,427,612.00

Operating days per week 7

Expected Saving Per Year PHP 5,433,574.00
Expected Investment Cost PHP 10,724,920.00
Simple Pay Back 1.97
IRR based on 10 years 49.75%
Interest rate 10%
NPV based on 10 years PHP 2,094,877.61

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CONCLUSION
Approach in energy saving is neither by controlling the demand usage nor switching off
equipment. Instead we optimize the operation and performance through data gathering and
engineering analysis. In the walk-through audit, we find that there is a great opportunity to
upgrade the existing chilled water system with optimized operation of the pumps, chiller and
cooling towers which can improve the efficiency by 20% to 30%. The annual electrical cost
savings is estimated up to this stage is about Php 5.4 million for the above observations so
far.
The way to save energy is to target a good chiller plant room efficiency of 0.83 kW/Ton or
less. The existing plant room’s efficiency is 0.95 kW/Ton. The reasons for not maintaining
good efficiencies are mainly due to poor configuration of chilled water and condenser water
piping, apparent excessive condenser pump head specification and lack of a centralized logic
control for the plant operation. This is only an estimated kW/Ton based on the walk through.
A more accurate system efficiency can be obtained upon a detailed energy audit is carried
out.
We would strongly encourage J CENTRE MALL to perform a comprehensive energy audit
(data acquisition) at your HVAC system so as to identify the areas of improvement in a more
accurate and professional methodology and to develop a clearer roadmap in energy
conservation program.

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OUR PROPOSAL

Perform a Detailed Energy Audit for the Chiller Plant room System.
Obtain operating parameters at all secondary chilled zone branches to verify the system
curve.
Explore potential savings on chilled water, condenser water and pumping systems by
reducing the dynamic head and flow balancing and control.
Spot measurement of lighting conditions at back of the house and office to explore for
improvement and energy conservation.
To perform data acquisition at the starter panels before and after to obtain the actual
power consumption savings upon implementation of the energy conservation
solutions.

Scope of Works
DETAIL SCOPE OF WORKS FOR ENERGY AUDIT
1. Measure and verify the parameters of the chilled water system using high-
accuracy instruments.
• The instruments will be set up after pre-study and other necessary site-
preparations (e.g. hot-tapping, insulation removal, etc.).
• Installation of instruments and the audit will not involve any disruption to the
operations of the buildings, its plants or systems. Installation will be
performed in consultation with J Centre Mall, maintenance and plant
operation team to ensure that it is non-disruptive.
• The System Chilled Water Supply and Return Pressure and the differential
pressure across the chilled water pumps will be measured and logged at one-
minute intervals using high accuracy pressure transducers.
• The System Chilled Water Supply and Return Temperatures will be measured
and logged at one-minute intervals using high accuracy thermistor.

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• The System Chilled Water Flow Rate will be measured at the Return side of
the Chiller System at one-minute intervals using a high accuracy ultrasonic
flow meter.
• The Power Consumption of the Plant room System (Pumps and chillers) will
be measured at one-minute intervals using high accuracy power meter using
Modbus protocol connected to computer(s).
• The audit data will be downloaded, checked and verified regularly to ensure
that all audit is reliable.
• The plotted data taken in this energy audit focuses on air-conditioning plant
room system which comprises the following:
a. Building cooling tonnage load profile
b. Building cooling load histogram
c. Plant room Electrical consumption profile
d. Plant room Electrical consumption histogram
e. Chilled Water Plant Room System Efficiency profile
f. Correlation between Plant room operating tonnage and system efficiency
g. Correlation between chillers percentage load and system efficiency (if
applicable)
h. System curve for all chilled water secondary piping
i. Supply water temperature profile on chilled water flow
j. Return water temperature profile on chilled water flow
k. Supply gauge pressure profile on chilled flow
l. Return gauge pressure profile on chilled flow
m. Temperature differential on chilled water flow
n. Correlation between chilled water temperature differential and operating
tonnage load
o. Pressure differential on chilled water flow
p. Based on bi-weekly sampling size, to calculate potential power
consumption and cost saving

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2. Installation Feasibility Studies on

• Building System Restrictions & Limitations
• Explore the feasibility of installing Central Plant Automation System with
remote monitoring features
• Implementation strategy by ESCO

3. Data Compilation and Analysis

4. Provide Recommendations, Advise, and Suggestions on Savings,

Investment and Return of Investment
• Partial Upgrading
• Total Upgrading
• New installation if applicable
• Target efficiency
• Scope of Work Necessary
• Detailed Break Down Cost of Investment
• Audit and Analysis Report preparation.

5. Conceptual Design

• Perform conceptual design of the upgraded chilled water system with

consideration of peak cooling load demand, average load demand, off-peak load
demand, standby, contingency backup, etc
• Perform detail design of the new electrical and control system
• Proposed Time Schedule and work schedule

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PROPOSAL FEE
* Based on the estimated potential savings and the above scope of work to undertake
the detailed energy audit services, the Audit Fees is the lump sum amount of
PHILIPPINE PESO TWO MILLION SEVEN HUNDRED TEN THOUSAND
ONLY (Php2,710,000.00).

The breakdown of cost is as follows:

Item Description Cost, Php

1 Mobilization, instrument hot tap installation, 410,000.00
data logging, downloading and instrument
removal.

2 Data analysis, report preparation and report 1,190,000.00

presentation to client.

3 Travel expenses including air fare, hotel 1,110,000.00

accommodations and meals from Singapore and
Manila to Cebu and back.

4 TOTAL 2,710,000.00

Should J Center Mall desire to enter into an ESCO arrangement to implement

the energy efficiency measures, the Audit Fees will be waived and an ESCO
contract shall be executed.

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Total duration of work

Phase 1 – 1 x Engineer & 1 x Manager
Hot tapping and setting up audit instrument, cables and data loggers – 4 days
Data acquisition on site with minimum 2 down loading of data verification – 28 days
Removal of tools and downloading of data – 2 days
Phase 2 - 1 x Manager & 1 x Director (Key Qualified Personnel)
Analysis on findings, presentation and report writing – 5 days
Presentation of findings and discussion with management and building owners the
roadmap for Movenpick Hotel Mactan Cebu Energy Conservation Program – 4 days
Phase 3 – 1 x Engineer
Hot tapping and setting up audit instrument for power measurement only after
implementation – 2 days
Removal of tools and downloading of data – 2 days
Report submittal for energy saving – 2 days

EXCLUSION
I. All government tax related to tools installation
II. Anything not mentioned in the quotation

PAYMENT TERMS
50% upon receipt of order
50% upon presentation and report submittal

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