Rack Refrigeration: Secondary Fluids

Eric Mele covers Rack Refrigeration: Secondary Fluids. He explores a medium-temp supermarket rack that uses glycol, a secondary fluid used to help with heat transfer in chiller systems. Although we show glycol in this video, some racks may use CO2 as a secondary fluid instead.
On the chiller side of a rack, the piping goes to the pump station and out to the store below. Chillers are actually quite similar to hydronic systems, as they have pumps and pump controllers. You can expect to see some spare glycol, electronic valves, and heat exchangers in the rack room on a glycol system. Heat transfer occurs in heat exchangers, where heat gets rejected from the refrigerant and moves to the glycol.
These racks may also put discharge heat into the glycol. That heat can then be supplied to the reheat coil in the air conditioner or used for warm fluid defrost.
When the rack puts discharge heat into the reheat circuit, it pumps the glycol using a circulating constant-volume pump, which helps the glycol go through the heating loop for the reheat coil. In the case of this rack, the lines go out of the rack at the bottom. Those lines run underneath the roofline and come back up into the A/C system across the rooftop. As with some other reheat coils, this system has a three-way valve to modulate the glycol flow through the coil.
The rack may have another heat exchanger for warm fluid defrost. The discharge gas can warm up some of the return glycol coming back from the A/C reheat coil. That discharge gas can also go down to evaporators or cases that need defrosting.
On the other side of the rack, we have the piping that allows the glycol to go down to the cases. There is also a three-way valve on the discharge line, which allows us to use discharge gas to heat water for use in the store. (These pipes have been labeled as "water heat reclaim." They lead to heat recovery tanks specifically for hot water.)
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[@tomasnewson6744]

Looking forward to the co2 vid also 👍🏻👍🏻

[@AirsoftColeraine]

So so interesting, love seeing the side of heavier refrigeration I never see, what a great trade we are in.

[@johnd4348]

Can you imagine the people who design these systems. I bet they are even surprised when they actually work correctly.

[@jfs520]

Great video thank you

[@ta-sheenamiller9490]

Thank you

[@robertwasswa8794]

Hello, HVAC school, can you kindly talk about the construction side of the trade in terms of construction heaters ( direct and indirect fired), dehumidifiers, torches and a lot of different or wider topics apart from the commercial and residential fields.
Thank you for always being so informative with the topics.

[@libiososa]

Good afternoon greetings from Venezuela in the video I observed a differential pressure gauge of the oil separator, could you tell me the reading of this instrument in which color it should star and in which it is wrong or indicative of the maintenance of the oil separator or replacement of the filter. Dear, I thank you

[@tyebundlez8262]

What should pump inlet psi be and outlet be around for glycol system????

[@robneidige9108]

How do you hook up
To glycol loop? What kinda gauges?

[@Mr0ozo0]

What issues do you see when utilizing got glycol defrost?

[@leslieorm4905]

Wait until you have to add the coloring dye..A real treat

[@Badtxv]

We call it getting smurfed lol. Always try to buy pre died just make sure the glycol percentages are the exact same and brand

[@Badtxv]

I try to hard to be careful but it just gets in the air, I even had it on my teeth somehow lol

[@johnd4348]

Always believe the Sharpie. The Sharpie never lies.

[@realestateservicessaleshea99]

🥃🍺😐👍🏻