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Chilled beam air conditioning systems offer low maintenance costs, good energy efficiency, and hygienic operation without the need for filters or condensate collection. They provide significant savings in life cycle costs compared to traditional fan coil systems, particularly through reduced maintenance and the ability to utilize free cooling. Proper selection and control of primary air and water temperatures are essential to prevent condensation and ensure optimal performance.

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Chilled Beam Presentations

Chilled beam air conditioning systems offer low maintenance costs, good energy efficiency, and hygienic operation without the need for filters or condensate collection. They provide significant savings in life cycle costs compared to traditional fan coil systems, particularly through reduced maintenance and the ability to utilize free cooling. Proper selection and control of primary air and water temperatures are essential to prevent condensation and ensure optimal performance.

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Room Air Conditioning System

Selection
• Chilled beams provides benefits in life cycle costs:
• Low maintenance cost
• Good energy efficiency
• Free cooling possible in cold and temperate climate

• Chilled beams system is a hygienic system


• No filters to be changed or cleaning of drain pans for condensate
• Easy cleaning of coils and surfaces, only once in every 5 years

• Chilled beams operate with a dry cooling coil


• No condensate collection system
• Primary air should be dehumidified in the air handling unit and/or
• Control of water temperatures is needed to avoid condensation

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Chilled Beam Operation Principle

Passive Beam Active Beam

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Chilled Beam Operation
1. Primary air
(dehumidificated
outdoor air) supply into
supply air chamber

2. Primary air is supplied


through small nozzles.

4 3. Primary air supply


induces room air to be
re-circulated through the
heat exchanger of the
chilled beam.
2 3 4. Re-circulated room air
1 and the primary air are
5 mixed prior to diffusion
in the space

5. Cold water connetion


6
6. Warm water connection

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Federation of European Heating, Ventilation and Air-conditioning Associations
Federation of European Heating, Ventilation and Air-conditioning Associations
Position of Passive Chilled Beams

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Benefits in Life Cycle Costs:
maintenance
Fan coil in 300 rooms, 20-year life cycle:

Filter change: €25/filter twice a year € 300.000


15 min to replace @ €20/hr € 60.000
Cleaning of condensation system: 3 times/year @ 15 min € 90.000
Motor replacement: €200/motor € 60.000
2 h work @ €20/hr € 12.000
Fan coil replacement: € 1000/ unit € 150.000

Total € 672.000

Chilled beam in 300 rooms, 20-year life cycle:

Cleaning of chilled beam:


once in every 5 years á 15 min @ €20/hr € 6.000

Difference in maintenance and replacement costs € 666.000

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Benefits in Life Cycle Costs:
free cooling and heating
• Chilled beams are designed and selected to use higher
operating temperatures than fan coil systems (14-18°C Vs 6-
12°C), increasing the available free-cooling period:
• chilled water from the buffer vessel can be circulated through the cooling
coil of the air-handling unit during free-cooling operation and heat is
transmitted from the chilled water to the supply air
• dry air coolers
• cooling towers
• ground cold energy storages
• Chilled beam system is a low temperature (30-45°C) heating
system:
• sustainable heat sources are easier to use
• higher efficiency of the heating boiler is achieved
• heat pump system is particularly suitable for heat generation due to its
high efficiency at the low temperature levels

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Chilled Beams in Cooling

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Selection of Primary Air
• Primary air should be dehumidified in most cases

• Airflow rate must be high enough to


– absorb the humidity generated in the space
– fulfil the hygienic needs

• Typical primary air volume is


– 1.5 – 3 l/s,floor-m2
– 5 - 15 l/s,beam-m

• Very high primary airflow rates increase the risk of draught


in the occupied zone

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Condensation Shall be Prevented
• Sufficiently high inlet water temperature, equal or above
the dew point temperature of the room air
• 14°C or higher

• Dehumidification of primary air

• Insulation of the valves and pipes

• Using condensation sensors on the pipe surface

• Raising the chilled water temperature or switching off


valves locally if there is an increased risk of condensation

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Dehumidification process of primary air

Outdoor air e.g.


in Scandinavia

Room air

Supply air
Inlet water to beams

Water temperature in cooling coil

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Room Control

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Product Selection
• It is also important to compare the velocity
data in the occupied zone created by the
active chilled beam.

• Each manufacturer has a unit specific data


for each chilled beam type, because the
air velocities are dependent on
• the construction of the chilled beam,
• the dimensions and geometry of the supply air slot
• the induction ratio of the chilled beam.

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Different Kind of Chilled Beam
Models from Various Manufacturers

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Performance of Chilled Beam

There are two architecturally almost identical chilled beams. Chilled beam on the
left does not perform well in exposed installation, whereas the throw pattern of
the chilled beam on the right is directed correctly towards walls.

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Chilled Beam System Benefits
• Comfortable indoor climate
conditions
• desired air temperature
• low room air velocity
• low noise in operation
• Economical life cycle
• competitive investment cost
• savings in running cost
• limited maintenance requirements
• easy to use with free/low energy
systems
• Hygienic solution
• dry coil operation
• no drains or filters
• openable construction for serviceability
and easy cleaning
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