This building is a chilled water plant, for all of you that are non engineers. This plant is a 50,000 tons plant. That doesn't mean it weighs 50,000 tons or anything like that. This plant is enough to cool (AC) 13 million square feet of buildings. Ok now think of 3,000 square feet per house, so this would cool about 4,000 homes. This is off the island of Abu Dhabi. We had a field trip today to take pictures. Sam is going to get us some passes to go and take pictures of the inside of the structure. Doesn't that sound fun. That kind of sounds like our first date... we toured the mechanical room of Yellowtail Dam in Fort Smith, Montana.http://www.usbr.gov/dataweb/dams/mt00576.htmI know more than you would think about chilled water. It is one of those subjects I dreamed of knowing everything about.
Look at the top of the building and you can see these big round like things. This is a cooling tower. You can see 4 of the 10 from this picture.
This pipe is going to be the underground water pipe that will hold water going out of the chilling towers. It is about 1.5 meters in diameter.
This is the secuity shack, a little more up town than the last one I showed you.
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