Single chiller · ΔT (load side) + weather (condenser side)

Plant health — two independent triggers

The load side and the weather side move on their own. Watch how each one degrades a different health signal.

demand350 kW
control100%
fault0%
weather24 °C

Load side — chilled-water ΔT (design 5.0 °C)

02.54.05.07
Actual ΔT
5.0 °C
% of design
100%
CHW flow
16.8 L/s
CHWS / CHWR
7 / 12

Weather & condenser side — chiller efficiency (design ≈ 0.60 kW/ton)

0.400.650.821.00
Wet-bulb
24 °C
Cond. water in
28 °C
Chiller lift
29 °C
Efficiency
0.79

Why two panels?

Move cooling load or coil fouling and the ΔT (top) reacts — but efficiency barely moves. Move wet-bulb and the kW/ton (bottom) climbs while ΔT stays put. That's the lesson: a hot, humid day makes the chiller work harder for the same cooling — a real degradation in efficiency, but a normal, weather-driven one, not a fault. A health system has to subtract out the weather before it can tell whether the plant is actually getting sick. Load is the main trigger; weather is the independent second one.