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I just did a quick and dirty experiment with two water-cooled parallel chillers in a loop set to the Optimal load distribution scheme and connected to an old load profile. When I left the chillers' Optimum PLR at 0.3, I got 2,160.14 GJ for their electricity consumption, when I changed their Optimum PLR to 1.0, I got 2,143.47 GJ. So, even though I would have expected a higher rather then lower energy consumption by "de-tuning" the loop, at least this seems to prove that the Optimum PLR is being used in the calculations and therefore probably out to be set to a realistic value.
