Chiller Systems
Centrifugal Compressors - First Cost
General
Centrifugals chillers 200 tons and larger cost less to install than reciprocating chillers (available up to the 175 to 200 ton range) and the same or slightly less than screw chillers in most all sizes. Centrifugals offer the advantages of high efficiency, infinitely variable capacity control (down to about 10 percent of full load), they're lighter (which reduces floor loadings) and they take up much less space for a given tonnage.
First cost of centrifugal chiller packages generally start higher than recips under 200 tons, and then cost less in the larger sizes. More definitive costs are shown in the Compare segment.
