Multi-chiller plant — live staging simulator

Three parallel chillers. Change the load and watch staging turn machines on/off, temperatures shift, and the flow speed up or slow down.

500 kW
100%
Cooling tower condenser return (warm) → condenser supply (cool) Chiller 1 Chiller 2 Chiller 3 P CW pump P CHW pump Building load heat removed at AHU coils CHWS 7.0°C CHWR 12.0°C ΔT 5.0°C
Cooling load
142 TR
Chillers running
2 / 3
Each chiller at
71%
Delta-T
5.0 °C
Plant power
— kW
Plant kW/ton
chilled / cool water warm return water chiller running chiller off

Each chiller is 100 TR (351.7 kW). Auto staging adds a machine before any running chiller passes ~90% load, so they stay near their most efficient part-load. Slide the load down low and watch chillers switch off; force too few chillers for a big load and you'll see an overload warning. Compare Auto against Force 3 at low load to see how running fewer machines harder beats spreading load thinly across many.