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Chillers
Chillers: Industrial Chillers are used for controlled cooling or products, mechanisms and factory machinery in a wide range of industries. A chiller is a machine that removes heat from a liquid via a vapour-compression or absorption refrigeration cycle. Most often water is chilled, but other fluids such as thin oils can be chilled as well.
Fuly chilled water is used to cool and dehumidify air in mid-to-large size commercial, industrial, and institutional (CII) facilities. In their industrial application, cooled water or other liquid from the chiller is pumped through process or laboratory equipment. Industrial chillers are used for controlled cooling of products, mechanisms and factory machinery in a wide range or industries. They are often used in the plastic industry in injection and blow molding, metal working cutting oils, welding equipment, die-casting and machine tooling, chemical processing, pharmaceutical formulation, food and beverage processing, vacuum systems, X-ray diffraction, power supplies and power generation stations, analytical equipment, semiconductors, compressed air and gas cooling. They are also used to cool high-heat specialised items such as MRI machines and lasers.
The chillers for industrial applications can be centralised, where each chiller serves multiple cooling needs, or decentralised where each application or machine has its own chiller. Each approach has its advantages. It is also possible to have a combination of both central and decentral chillers, especially if the cooling requirements are the same for some applications or point of use, but not all.
Decentral chillers are usually small in size (cooling capacity), usually from 0.2 tons to 10 tons. Central chillers generally have capacities ranging from ten tons to hundreds or thousands of tons.
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