- Central Plant
Hobby Airport Satellite Central Utility Plant
Location
Houston, TX
This project consisted of the installation of four new 1,100 Ton chillers in the existing satellite central utility plant (SCUP) at Hobby Airport in Houston, TX. Upon completion of the SCUP, the existing Central Utility Plant (CUP) was decommissioned and demolished. The new chillers, cooling towers, and pumps allowed for N+1 redundancy in the SCUP. The new chilled water system was configured as a variable primary system with one set of variable secondary pumps serving the FIS Terminal. A bypass around the FIS secondary pumps was constructed to allow the primary pumps to serve the FIS when differential pressures and load allow. Our team developed a Method of Procedure (MOP) for transitioning the chilled water systems from the existing plant to the new SCUP that would allow us to test the SCUP without impacting normal airport operations.
