What are chiller machines

In the industrial sector, water chillers are defined as machines designed to keep the water temperature in balance. These can be used in different contexts (companies, industrial, offices). Regardless of the intended use, all chillers all have the same function: to cool the water and protect it from external pollutants. Water chillers are also called chiller machine. It is important, however, to make a clear distinction between process water chillers and chillers for industrial or civil air conditioning. By air conditioning or air conditioning systems we mean those systems suitable for the simultaneous control of temperature and humidity in the rooms.

They are those common systems designed to cool the various rooms, or electrical cabinets and where a precise and constant cooling water temperature is not required. Conversely, chiller machines are appliances for cooling water or rather groups of compression water chillers. They are divided according to the fluid used for cooling the condenser, in air or water. The most common cooling capacity range for installed systems varies between 2 and 750 kW.

Compared to those used at home, professional chillers are suitable for supporting the production process within the industry. In fact, they allow the creation of a high and constant accuracy of the water outlet temperature (in any atmospheric condition) and must keep the fluid clean so as not to damage the end user. In fact, process chillers are used to cool industrial machinery that requires an uncontaminated cooling fluid at a precise and constant temperature. For example, in all the hydraulic circuits of the machines, if the oil temperature exceeds a certain threshold, the machine stops with a consequent loss of productivity. When does an optimal temperature need to be created? Obviously during the production process and for the sole purpose of accelerating and improving production processes.

When the low water temperature is necessary for the proper functioning of cooling and air conditioning systems, the only solution is therefore represented by precision process chillers. The process cooling chiller is a machine designed for cooling water by means of a refrigeration circuit. This circuit, which must always remain closed, for its part must ensure that the waste of the cooling fluid is zero, that there is no management of drains, that no water quality control occurs. It is also important to ascertain modularity, the possibility of expansions, total flexibility, a settable water temperature and independence from environmental conditions.