Chillers and Chiller Systems

The Modern Industrial Chiller is basically a cooling system that removes heat from one element (water/glycol/air) and deposits into another (ambient air or water).

The standard design is a system that cools 60° F water (water/glycol, or air) to 50° F and deposits the heat into the ambient air at 95° F (or water at 85° F).

This chilling technology is used by various industries to cool down the process machinery and the process using a Freon chiller to cool a medium like air or water. To learn more about chillers in general and to help you make an informed decision about your own cooling problem, we are going to begin with a definition of a chiller and then move on to learning what a chiller can do for you, how to buy a chiller and what to look for when buying a chiller.

The function of controlling the temperature in manufacturing and process equipment can be achieved in four ways –

1) A cooling tower that supplies water at 85° F or higher and by using chillers that supply water at 60° F or      lower.

2) A portable chiller,

3) A packaged chiller,

4) A central chiller system.

A portable chiller

 Is a single pump chiller, can be supplied with either air or water cooled condensers, used to cool one or two machines, process water flow limited to 2.4 gpm/ton, this limits the use of this type of chiller.