p11

Why Optimize Chiller with

Cooling Tower System?
?
The goal of the cooling tower and chiller subsystem is to reject the heat from
the chillers at the highest system efficiency possible. The old assumption that
the workload of the largest motors should be minimized misses an important
reality. The reality is that not all mechanical devices have the same energy
efficiency nor do they react the same to changing conditions. The operating
conditions that affect the system efficiency most include tower selection,
chiller type and efficiency, chiller load, and ambient wet bulb temperature. In
the past, various strategies have been suggested to meet the goal of best
system efficiency. Some of these include:
Operate the cooling tower at the original design leaving-water temperature
(such as 32C). Chiller service technicians typically promote this strategy in
an attempt to avoid chiller operation problems.
Operate the cooling tower at the lowest leaving-water temperature
possible, (for example, always run the fans at full speed.) Supporters believe
that reduced chiller energy use will minimize the energy used by the entire
system.
Operate the cooling tower at a leaving-water temperature equal to the
present outside air temperature wet-bulb plus the towers design approach
temperature. Some of the major controls companies have promoted this as
an optimum control strategy.
Operate the cooling tower at a leaving-water temperature that maintains a
fixed pressure differential between the chiller evaporator and condenser.
The chiller's energy use or the tower's energy use is minimized based on
the selected pressure. The system's energy use is generally not affected.

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Under a few operating conditions, each of these strategies

will control the tower at the optimum setpoint for best
system efficiency. For the majority of operating conditions,
these strategies will be far from optimal.

Consider System Design Optimization

before Chiller-Tower Optimization

Frequently when optimizing system design, attention

initially focuses on the leaving-water temperature
produced by the cooling tower. In reality, this aspect
should be the final consideration because it often has the
least impact on optimal and reliable system operation. To
create an energy-efficient cooling tower system, follow
these priorities listed in decreasing impact on energy
usage:

Use a cooling tower range (Ts) larger than the old rule
of thumb, 5C, which often results in a lower system
first cost, lower system full and part load energy use
and therefore lower life cycle cost. Many designers find
that selecting tower and chiller Ts in the 6.7 to 8.3C
range results in the optimum life cycle cost. Towers
close to the chillers use 6.7 degrees T, while towers
farther away use greater Ts.
Choose cooling tower configurations that run multiple
fans at low speeds rather than a single fan at high
speed, which can result in significant operating energy
savings.

System design Component selection and application

Sequence of operation What to run when?
Setpoint determination How hard do I run it?

Always apply two-speed or variable frequency drive

(VFD) drive technology to cooling tower fans. The
energy savings justify it in almost every case. It also
dramatically improves controllability and improves
reliability maintenance.

System Design
There are numerous variables that come into play in the
design of condenser water systems. The following list
contains examples of often-overlooked opportunities for
system energy improvements:

Sequence of Operation
Energy-efficient control begins with a well-thought out and
detailed system sequence of operation. The development
of the system sequence should never be left up to
the discretion of the controls contractors installation

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technician. Some control sequence strategies that can

be applied to optimize cooling tower system efficiency
include:

In actuality, there is no single, optimum cooling-tower

leaving-water setpoint. It is a dynamic value that varies
through time depending upon:

Sequence fans on at low speed on active cells

as required to control the desired leaving-water
temperature before switching any fan to high speed,
when operating multiple-tower cells on towers
equipped with two-speed fan motors.

Sequence fans on at low speed and ramp to

approximately 50 percent to 60 percent before
sequencing on an additional fan, when operating
multiple-tower cells. Modulate all operating fans in
parallel at the same speed to maintain the desired
cooling tower leaving-water temperature.

Cooling Tower Optimization

Enable multiple-tower cells and run more fans at lower

speeds to save fan energy. Note that many cooling
towers have a relatively narrow range of water-flow
rates that they can effectively operate within, confirm
with the tower manufacturer that enabling additional
cells will not compromise this range. If it does, ask
about the availability of wide-flow range nozzles or hot
deck weirs that can be added to extend the tower flow
range.

kW

Setpoint determination
After system design and sequence of operation has been
analyzed for the best system efficiency, consideration
can now be given to the determination of the coolingtower leaving-water temperature that will allow for the
lowest possible subsystem energy use (tower and chiller).

350
300
250
200
150
Chiller kW

100

Tower kW

50

Total kW

0
72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85

22.5C

Condensing Water Temperture

29.5C

The optimum setpoint minimizes both chiller and tower

subsystem energy use. Load, ambient conditions and the
part load operating characteristic of chiller and cooling
tower ultimately determine the optimum tower control
temperatures for a given installation. Note, too, that screw
chiller energy consumption increases quickly with reduced
head pressure (condensing water temperature), so the
optimal tower water setpoint control for these compressors
may be lower than for centrifugal compressors.
The Trane Company patented a methodology which
calculates a near optimal temperature as a function of the
chiller work efficiency, cooling tower efficiency and the
transfer rate and then operate the cooling tower to provide
a conditioned fluid at the near optimal temperature. The
calculation routine and control logic are implemented in
Tranes control software (Tracer Summit) and are program
as custom programming language (CPL) for implementing
into project quickly.
Trane energy analysis tools analyze Chiller and cooling
tower optimization for different weather location, building
types and system components in quantitative manner.
Trane sales engineer can assist you to analyze chiller and
tower optimization upon your request.

This article is written by Mr. Peter Lau, Senior Manager of System Applications, Trane Asia Pacific.
Related article is available as
Take it to the limit or just halfway? ASHRAE Journal, July 1998, Volume 40, N0.7, pp. 32- 39
Tower water temperature control it how??!
(http://www.trane.com/commercial/library/vol241/v24a.asp) Engineers Newsletter, Volume 24, No.1 The Trane Company, 1995, Schwedler, M P.E. and Bradley, B.

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Sequence off all tower fans before modulating the

flow across the tower or chiller condenser for the
purpose of maintaining the chiller minimum allowable
condenser/ evaporator pressure differential. On rare
occasions with single-speed fan operation, condenser
water flow modulation through chillers may be required
to coincide with fan operation to limit the number of
fan start/stop cycles. In these cases, the application of
VFD fan control should be considered to provide more
stable operation and to minimize fan maintenance.
Modulate the cooling-tower or chiller-condenser water
flow only when necessary to prevent a chiller from
operating below its minimum allowable condenser
and evaporator pressure differential. If the water flow
through the tower and or chiller is modulated, it may
greatly reduce the tower or chiller efficiency.

Chiller type and efficiency

Tower type and efficiency
System load
Ambient wet bulb temperature

32
C

?
?

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5
C Ts

Ts 6.7
C 8.3
C
6.7
C T
Ts

50-60%

CPL

Take it to the limit or just halfway? ASHRAE Journal, July 1998, Volume 40, N0.7, pp. 32- 39
Tower water temperature control it how??!
(hhtp:www.trane.com/commercial/library/vol241/v24a.asp) Engineers Newsletter, Volume 24, No.1 The Trane Company, 1995, Schwedler, M P.E. and Bradley, B.

Problem Diagnosis
for Chillers

The factory also points out that if the chiller stops

because of a functional problem, customer should not
use the reset function casually to re-start the chiller.
Contrarily, the cause of the malfunction must be
identified and resolved, then the chiller can be re-started.
Otherwise, there could be serious damage to the chiller.
According to past experience, customer can follow these
initial inspection procedures when encountering a similar
problem. If there is evaporator water flow loss, the
function of flow switch should be inspected first. If the
problem occurs when the chiller is stopped, the chilled
water pump should be checked to see if the time delay
switch is properly installed and set. Usually there should
be at least 3 minutes for the time delay in stopping the
pump.
When RTHD chiller is in operation, if building
management system instructs the chiller to stop,
the chiller will not stop immediately as it will wait for
auto load to complete first, and time delay for unload
takes about 40 seconds. Therefore, when building
management system instructs to stop, the chilled water
pump will not stop immediately and must wait until the
time delay in stopping the pump is completed.
The newly launched CH530 control panel has an added
function: when there is a chiller problem and the control
panel is not reset, the control panel can record the
important operating conditions, such as temperature,
refrigerant pressure, electric pressure and electric
current, 2 hours before the problem occurs, so that the
maintenance personnel can investigate the cause.

CH530

RTHD

CH530

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Trane chillers are installed with CH530 control panel,

which can store up to 60 records of functional problems.
When there is a problem during the operation of chiller,
control panel will flash its red light to alert maintenance
personnel for inspection. Maintenance personnel must
investigate the information of control panel to confirm the
problem and perform the maintenance work.

Carbon Audit for

Tamar Project

Philip C.H. Yu, PhD RPE CEng Director of Environmental & Applications Engineering, Trane Asia Pacific
Philip has over 15 years of professional experience in the HVAC field in Asia Pacific. He is actively involved in non-business technical activities both in
Hong Kong and Mainland China. His areas of interest include building energy, chiller technology, refrigerant piping design and applications of various airconditioning systems.

Philip15HVAC

Email : yupc@trane.com

In the Policy Address recently released, I am pleased to

learn about the Governments initiative in joining the global
effort to combat Global Warming, particularly conducting
a Carbon Audit and implement an emissions reduction
campaign in the new Central Government Complex at
Tamar (para. #39).
For this new Government Complex (Tamar project),
we could have the opportunity to save as much as
1,000 tons of carbon emission every year* or a lifecycle emission reduction of 30,000 tons!

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The Tamar project has total chiller (for air-conditioning)

capacity of 10,000 refrigeration tons (RT) but unfortunately,
it is currently specified to use refrigerants with zero
ozone depletion potential (ODP).= For such large chiller
applications, water-cooled centrifugal type is the most
energy efficient choice; and there are 2 commonly used
refrigerants, namely R-123 and R-134a. Since chiller
design has to be optimized based on the choice of
refrigerant and other associated technology, R-123 chiller
has 15.6% better overall efficiency. 1 And the actual
energy savings will be much greater if it can be matched
up with other equipment and controls to optimize the
energy efficiency of the air-conditioning system as a
whole. Putting zero ODP in the specification ruled out the
choice of R-123 which is a HCFC though its ODP is as

low as 0.012. This not only gives up significant indirect

emission (i.e. energy related carbon emission) reduction
mentioned above but also contributes direct emission to
global warming because R-134a is a HFC greenhouse gas
with global warming potential (GWP) 17 times higher and
operates in centrifugal chiller at higher pressure with 4
times higherb emission rate. Apparently, R-123 is a better
choice than R-134a from an integrated environmental
assessment standpoint. There are numbers of supporting
scientific evidence discussed in the past issue.2 As such,
the environmental value of R-123 are more recognized and
given favourable credit points in the latest version of green
building rating standards of many countries including USA3,
Australia 4, Singapore 5, and even Hong Kong 6. Indeed
most of them used to offer credit points to zero ODP as
an environmental response to the Ozone Layer Protection
in the past, now consider Climate Change as well in their
latest version or take an integrated approach like LEED
that incorporates also the important concept of life-cycle
impact, total refrigerant charge and leakage rate.
Last September in Montreal, Canada, I had the privilege
of taking part in the United Nations meeting of parties
to the Montreal Protocol. One of the important results
is phasing-out first those HCFCs with higher ozonedepleting potential.7 For instance, the U.S. government
phased out HCFC-141b (ODP=0.11) in 2003 to meet the

* Estimate based on simple equivalent full load hours for office building.
= SS P318-Tamar, Section BS2 Special Design Requirements.
b According to LEED-NC version 2.2 green building rating system of the U.S. Green Building Council, the annual lead rate of R-134a chillers is 2% and that of Trane R-123
chillers is only 0.5%.

Montreal Protocol requirement of first 35% reduction and

HCFC-22 (ODP=0.055) is being phased out by 2010, which
will be sufficient to meet the new accelerated schedule
(see lower red line in Fig. 1), without impacting HCFC-123
and other low ODP substances till the end of phase
schedule.

in fig. 2), the new Headquarters building of the central

government environmental authority in the Mainland is
using Trane R-123 chiller because of its superior energy
efficiency and ultra low refrigerant leakage due to low
pressure operation. I really dont understand why our
government still insist of using the old criteria zero ODP
and give up the opportunity of 30,000 tons emission
reduction!

In view of a big cut in the new schedule of Montreal

Protocol for developing countries (see the grey area

Fig.1: ODP Weighted U.S. HCFC Use and Montreal Protocol (MP)
HCFC Consumption Cap for Article 2 (Developed) Countries
ODPHCFC
HCFC

Million ODP Kilograms ODP

15

65% - 2004

10

2007 MP Change
2007
35% - 2010

25%
10% - 2015

0.5% - 2020
service

0
1990

1995

2000

2005

2010

2015

HCFC Production Cap

HCFC

US EPA Est. of HCFC use

HCFC

Actual HCFC usage

HCFC

Actual R-123 usage

R-123

2020

2025

2030

Calm, J.M. 2007. Centrifugal chiller efficiency benefits beyond reduced operating costs, Act on Climate Change Now or Never Proceedings of the
International Conference on Climate Change (ICCC, Hong Kong, 29-31 May 2007), paper ICCC-080.
2
Yu, P.C.H. "Re-thinking of HFC-134a", Trane Hong Kong newsletter, October 2006, pp. 6-8.
3
USGBC. 2006. LEED for New Construction, version 2.2. U.S. Green Building Council, Washington D.C., USA.
4
GBCA. 2007. Green Star environmental rating system for buildings, version 3.0. Green Building Council of Australia, Melbourne, Australia.
5
Building and Construction Authority, Singapore. 2008. Green Mark for Air-conditioned Buildings, version 3.0.
6
HK-BEAM Society. 2004. Hong Kong Building Environmental Assessment Method for New Buildings, version 4/04.
7
UNEP. 2007. Decision XIX/F: Adjustments to the Montreal Protocol with regard to Annex C, Group I, substances (hydrochlorofluorocarbons) Decisions Adopted
by the Nineteenth Meeting of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer. http://ozone.unep.org/
1

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1985

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1,000 *
30,000

2R-123

3 4 5
6 ODP

LEED

(
10,000
=
(ODP
R-123 ODP HCFC 7 2003
R-134a HCFC-141bODP=0.11
R-123 35% 2010 HCFC-22
15.6%1 ODP=0.055
ODP HCFC-123 ODP
R-123 R-123
HCFC ODP 0.012

R-134a
HFC GWP R-123 17 R-123

b
R-123 4 R-123 ODP 30,000
R-134a

2007 MP Change
2007

90%-2015
Million ODP Kilograms ODP

Fig.2: Montreal Protocol (MP)

HCFC Consumption Cap
for Article 5 (Developing)
countries

HCFC

2009-2010 Baseline
established (was 2015)
2009-2010
2015

2005

65%-2020

2013 Freeze point

(was 2015)
2013
2016

32.5%-2025
Phase out of HCFC
use in new equipment (was 2040)
HCFC
2040

2010

2015

2020

2025

2.5% - Service Tail

2030

2035

2040

* Estimate based on simple equivalent full load hours for office building.

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= SS P318-Tamar, Section BS2 Special Design Requirements.

b According to LEED-NC version 2.2 green building rating system of the U.S. Green Building Council, the annual lead rate of R-134a chillers is 2% and that of Trane R-123
chillers is only 0.5%.
Calm, J.M. 2007. Centrifugal chiller efficiency benefits beyond reduced operating costs, Act on Climate Change Now or Never Proceedings of the
International Conference on Climate Change (ICCC, Hong Kong, 29-31 May 2007), paper ICCC-080.
2
Yu, P.C.H. "Re-thinking of HFC-134a", Trane Hong Kong newsletter, October 2006, pp. 6-8.
3
USGBC. 2006. LEED for New Construction, version 2.2. U.S. Green Building Council, Washington D.C., USA.
4
GBCA. 2007. Green Star environmental rating system for buildings, version 3.0. Green Building Council of Australia, Melbourne, Australia.
5
Building and Construction Authority, Singapore. 2008. Green Mark for Air-conditioned Buildings, version 3.0.
6
HK-BEAM Society. 2004. Hong Kong Building Environmental Assessment Method for New Buildings, version 4/04.
7
UNEP. 2007. Decision XIX/F: Adjustments to the Montreal Protocol with regard to Annex C, Group I, substances (hydrochlorofluorocarbons) Decisions Adopted
by the Nineteenth Meeting of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer. http://ozone.unep.org/
1

RTWD Water Cooled Screw Chiller

RTWD
To meet the market demand, Trane has
specially launched the RTWD series of
water cooled screw chiller manufactured
in China, with cooling capacity from 70
to 250 tons using R134a refrigerant. The
chiller uses compressor and starter panel
directly imported from the U.S., therefore
is more reliable and has a wider range of
operating temperatures. Equipped with
the newly improved CH530 control panel,
it is one of the best choices in the market.

RTWD
70 250
R134a

CH530

AerisGuard Corrosion Protection

AerisGuard
AerisGuard Maintenance Corrosion Protection (AerisCoat) provides
comprehensive protection for coils of heat exchanger against corrosion or
oxidation. Through extensive long term field testing, AerisCoat has proven to
offer up to 5 years protection for onsite application.
AerisCoat is newly represented by Hong Kong Air-conditioning Parts Centre
and now available with stock on hand.

AerisGuard
AerisGuard Application Steps

Clean

Treat

Protect

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AerisGuard

Carrefours First Two Energy

Efficiency Stores in China

Mega department chain store Carrefour has opened

two new stores in Wuhan and Beijing respectively
in January. Trane provided all the air-conditioning
systems for these two energy efficiency stores
and was invited to attend the opening ceremony.
Also, Trane organized a promotional activity entitled
Energy Saving in My Home at Carrefour, showing
the highly energy-efficient EarthWiseTM system used
by these two stores and the advanced integrated
control system. Senior management from Carrefour,
Consulate from the French embassy, representatives
from World Wild Fund and related government
officials were present. The air-conditioning system
also includes a remote controlled energy management
system specially designed for Carrefour. Through this
system, the central monitoring and operating centre of
Carrefour in Shanghai can control the operation of airconditioning systems at all its outlets. Trane is proud
to be appointed by Carrefour as the official supplier
in air-conditioning and management systems for all
its new stores in China, and to provide energy saving
improvement services for its existing stores.

EarthWiseTM

Trane Taiwan Won Outstanding Facility Supplier Award

TraneNewsletter 10 MAY 2008

Trane Taiwan just won the Outstanding Facility

Supplier Award by United Microelectronics
Corporation (UMC) recently for its quality products
and technical support. After using the facilities
provided by Trane, UMC saved an impressive
US$2.5 million in operating cost between the
second half of 2006 and 2007. UMC is the first
listed semi-conductor company in Taiwan, and has
12,000 employees all over the world.

2006
2007 250

12,000

New Manufacturing
Facility in Thailand

Prevention of
Legionnaires Disease
Committee

Mr. K. L. Chan, Operations Director,

is renewed by Development Bureau
as a member of the Prevention of
Legionnaires Disease Committee.
The three-year tenure started from
November 2007.

2007
11

Trane and Jardine executives at the new factory.

3 12

Annual Dinner
Trane held the annual dinner in early February at the City
Hall. Over 200 staff put their work aside and participated
this fun-filled occasion. They enjoyed a sumptuous dinner
and had a great time together. Our infamous "Sister Chu"
received the grand prize from Mr. K. K. Leung, Director
and General Manager, with a big, cheerful smile.
2

TraneNewsletter 11 MAY 2008

The new high-tech manufacturing facility near

Bangkok, Thailand by Trane and Jardines was
officially open on 12 March. The management
from Trane and Jardine Engineering,
government officials of Thailand, customers,
dealers and suppliers were present at the
opening ceremony. The new facility mainly
produces household and commercial air
conditioning units to meet the huge demand
from markets in Asia Pacific, Latin America,
Europe and Middle East. The plant has a
product development laboratory and stateof-the-art inspection facilities. Also, it has a
training centre to provide a technical exchange
and experience sharing platform for customers,
dealers and business partners.

Re-structure of Sales Departments

To be in-line with the current business environment and

explore new opportunities, Trane Hong Kong started
restructuring the Sales Departments in January this year.
Newly created departments include Strategic Account
Department, which is responsible for unitary products for
new buildings in Hong Kong and overseas joint projects
in Macau, China and other countries, while the Energy
Solution Department mainly provides system update and
energy solutions for customers. Existing Buildings Market
Department, New Buildings Market Department and Trane
Controls Department will continue their sales services as
before.

New Organization Chart of

Trane Hong Kong
Mr. K.L. Chan
Operations Director

Mr. Victor Wong

Senior Manager

New Buildings
Market Department

Trane Controls
Department

Builtech Asia 2008

2008

TraneNewsletter 12 MAY 2008

Mr. Peter Lau, Senior Manager of System

Applications, Trane Asia Pacific, was
invited as a guest speaker at Builtech
Asia 2008 seminar with the topic of
I n t e g r a t i n g H V A C i n t o B u i l d i n g
Systems. The seminar was aimed at
providing the latest technical knowledge
on bui ldings , audience was mainly
from project consultancy companies,
developers, government departments and
contractors.

2008

Mr. Albert Lo
Senior Manager

Strategic Account
Department

Mr. Y. S. Tam
Senior Manager

Existing Buildings
Market Department

Energy Solution
Department

Service First
Workshop

To enhance staffs service and team

spirit, we have arranged a Service
First Workshop on 5 and 6 of March
at the Gold Coast Hotel, Tuen Mun.
Through different interesting games
and vivid presentations, everyone has
commanded a good knowledge of the
importance of service first and team
spirit.

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HKIE Fellow Member

Old Faces

Mr. K. K. Leung, Director, and Mr. K. L. Chan, Operations

Director, had a warm reunion with Mr. Hans Rueschmann
(third left), former Vice President of Unitary Product,
Trane Asia Pacific, and Mr. Tony Chow (fourth left),
former Director & General Manager of Jardine Trane
Airconditioning recently. Mr. Hans has retired for years
and is very active in voluntary church services, while Mr.
Chow is enjoying his retirement life in Shanghai now.
2
Mr. Hans Rueschmann

Mr. Hans

TraneNewsletter 13 MAY 2008

Mr. Frankie Chan, Operations

Director, was appointed by HK
Institute of Engineers as Fellow
Member in January this year.
Mr. Chan has over 20 years
of experience in the field of
engineering and construction, and
holds a bachelor and a masters
degree in mechanical engineering
from Hong Kong University, as
well as many other professional
qualifications, including
Registered Professional Engineer, Chartered Engineer
(UK & Australia) and Certified Energy Manager. Mr.
Chan is now the Honorary Secretary of the Building
Services Division of HKIE and a Director of HAESCO.
He is also appointed by the HKSAR as a member of
the Contractors Registration Committee Panel and
the Contractors Registration Committee, as well as a
Sector / Subject Specialist for the Hong Kong Council
for Academic Accreditation.

Mr. K. K. Leung, Director,

presented the platinum
award to Mr. Kelly Chow
(right) of Dah Fung
Service.

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Dealer Meeting 2008

2008
Trane Dealer Meeting 2008 was held on 10
March 2008 at City Garden Hotel, North Point.
Dealer excellence awards were also presented
to praise their outstanding sales performance
in 2006 and 2007 by Mr. K. K. Leung, Director
and Mr. K. L. Chan, Operations Director. An
exciting series of upcoming dealer activities
were unveiled that night, which included
the factory visit to Zhongshan plant, product
presentation and technical training.
There are 12 dealers received outstanding
sales awards for their dedication and support
to Trane for the past two years, they include:
3 10

2006 2007

12

Platinum Award
Dah Fung Service

Golden Award
Arnlee Air-Conditioning Ltd.
Associated HVAC Contracting Co., Ltd.
Jeff Air Conditioning Co., Ltd.
Lightben Ltd.

Quota Breaker
Easiplus Engineering Ltd.
Honest Air-conditioning Ltd.
Kervin Engineering Co., Ltd.
Kings View Airconditioning Engineering Co., Ltd.
SilverTech E & M Engineering Co., Ltd.
TJ Engineering Services Ltd.
Westco Chinney Ltd.

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All dealers and Trane management took a group photo to commemorate the occasion.

MTR Stations Project

MTR Corporation plans to upgrade the air conditioning

system of its stations gradually. Eleven water cooled
and air cooled chillers with a total of 3,025 tons will
be replaced and installed in 4 of the stations and the
Kowloon Bay depot. The project is expected to take
2 years and be completed by July 2009.

11 3,025
2009
7

Kornhill Apartments

Kornhill Apartments in Island

East is a service apartment with
450 rooms. Trane is installing a
water cooled centrifugal chiller
with 800 tons there. The project
is estimated to finish by mid
2008.

450
1 800

Trane is working on an electric mechanical improvement project for

the 27-year old United Centre in Admiralty. The project includes
changing the air handling units, repairing chillers and changing
the sprinkler system for
the entire building. The
project will be completed
by end of June.

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United Centre

Long Service Award |

Many colleagues have dedicated their services to Trane
for 10, 15 and 20 years, and the management presented
a special award to each one of them as an appreciation
for their contribution over the years.

Mr. James Graham (left), Chief Executive of Jardine Engineering

Corporation, presented the 20 Years Service Award to Mr. K. L.
Chan (right), Operations Director of Trane Hong Kong in JEC Spring
Dinner.
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Staff Promotions |
Congratulations to the following staff on their
promotions! Wish them more success in their new
appointments.

Happy Wedding |
Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Yu tied their
knot on 28 December 2007. Our
warmest wishes for their love to last forever!
2007 12 28
TraneNewsletter 16 MAY 2008

From left: Mr. K. M. Lun (Manager), Mr. Tom Cheung (Assistant

Manager) and Mr. C. W. Chau (Senior Engineer)

New Kid |
Congratulations to Mr. Zeno
Wong for his newborn baby boy!