The loading on the CL system involves determining how much water the system can cool and what sort of effects this has on amount of power needed to run the system. Investigation of these two issues would be the next step for anyone picking up this URP in the future. The chart also shows the rooms 2037 and 7204 do not use enough water to make it economically beneficial to retrofit them. They do not use enough water in five years to pay for the retrofit. The economic analysis in the results section shows that the most beneficial, both economically and environmentally, solution is to retrofit the existing labs so that they are piped into the CL system.
More information is needed to make an informed decision.
The effects on the CL system and the inconvenience, if any, to the lab personnel need to be evaluated. Until this information is gathered and analyzed the best option is to inform and educate building occupants to reduce the amount of water they use. This will produce some cost saving while still benefiting the environment. The next step is clearly to investigate the effects of increasing the load on the CL system and determining the amount of discomfort, if any, the labs will experience due to a change over to a CL system. The first step in investigating the loading on the CL system is to determine exactly how much additional load the CL system can handle.