Fairfax Ice Arena
Fairfax, Virginia
Features
- NHL-size ice surface
- Brine pump horsepower reduced to 1/3 through the use of pony pumps
- Oversized chiller installed with electronic expansion valves
- Oversized condenser installed with VFD drive system
- Snow melt pit / refrigerant sub-cooling system
- Under-floor heat /refrigerant sub-cooling system
- Energy recovery from compressor heads and oil cooler
- Energy recovery for building heating system
- Replaced two 12-cylinder VILTER compressors with two 6-cylinder Mycom compressors
- VFD drives installed on both compressors
- Arena-Logic computer control system installed
- New arena floor installed with a tolerance of ½”
- Energy consumption reduced by half
- Average refrigeration plant energy consumption is now 750 kilowatts per day