Some of the places in the world for which Amusement Logic has designed and built leisure projects have extreme climates. These locations can reach temperatures of between 46 and 48 ºC maximum during the day. The air conditioning of the facilities located in these places is therefore a great challenge.
In a water park project that was designed and built for one of these extreme locations, the facilities had to be operational 12 months of the year. This requirement involved the conditioning (cooling in this case) of the pool water, the temperature of which had to fluctuate, depending on the season, between 26 and 30 degrees Celsius. The waterpark’s main building, with a total floor area of more than 3,500 m2, also had to be air-conditioned.
Our solution came with the design of a cooling and heating production plant consisting of 4 cooling units with a heat pump. The total installed thermal capacity was 1.500 kW in one case (cooling) and 2.000 kW in the other (heating). Two of the units were used to cover the conditioning needs of the swimming pools, whilst the other two were used to cover the thermal loads of the main building. The combination of both systems and their multi-purpose use to support each other was therefore able to meet the project’s requirements.
Additionally, two of the units were equipped with a system known as the “Desuperheating System“, which uses the hot exhaust gases from the compressors. By means of a gas/water exchanger, we provided the water park with the most efficient solution, as it allowed the free thermal use of 330 kW, which was used to heat the domestic water in the main building.Â
By Francisco Lozano, Senior MEP Engineer in the Architectural Department of Amusement Logic
