We factory acceptance test (FAT) water chillers typically under maximum load conditions.
What is a maximum load condition?
A maximum load condition is primarily ambient temperature focused. Not chilled water temperature focused. It is the condition whereby while the chilled water temperature's are at the design full load return and supply points the coincident ambient temperature is at the maximum specified for a given altitude.
But water chillers fail mostly under lowest load conditions.
What is a lowest load condition?
It is precisely the reciprocal!
What sayeth the PJM's and the other great minds of our industry?
Of course, given the above described limitations that a typical FAT is subjected to, the imagination, of a technical nature, regarding SSAT's, is more about extrapolation though mostly about seasonal timing.
Marc O'Brien Technical Director Fridgetech.Com Ltd