Industrial processes often require precise temperature control to maintain efficiency and product quality. One essential component in achieving this control is the industrial water cooled chiller. These sophisticated cooling systems play a vital role across various industries, ensuring equipment operates within optimal temperature ranges, enhancing productivity, and lifespan.Let's explore the world of industrial water cooled chillers, exploring their applications, working principles, and longevity factors.

Table Of Content

1. What is an industrial water cooled chiller?

2.What is the application of industrial water-cooled chillers?

3.How do industrial chillers work?

4.How does an industrial chiller last?

1.What is an industrial water cooled chiller?

Industrial water cooled chillers are also called water cooled chiller, industrial water cooled unit. It is a cooling equipment that is composed of a refrigerant circulation system, water circulation system, electrical control system, and water treatment system, and can provide cold water with constant temperature, constant pressure, and constant current.

2. What is the application of industrial water-cooled chillers?

Industrial chillers are mainly used in plastic processing, electroplating, the pharmaceutical industry, mechanical processing, the smelting industry, and other industries. Its role in industrial production mainly includes the following points:

2.1 Equipment cooling: In the process of industrial production, heat will be generated during the operation of equipment. Overheating of equipment caused by long-term operation may make industrial production equipment or experimental equipment lose normal working performance, seriously affect the performance and reliability of equipment, and even endanger the service life of the equipment. Cooling production equipment by industrial water chillers can effectively reduce the equipment to a suitable temperature range in a short time and ensure the normal operation of industrial equipment.

2.2 Process control: in some industrial production processes that need to control the temperature, plastic molding (TV sets, washing machines, toys, mobile phone cases, automobile plastic parts, etc.) is an example. In the process of injection molding, cooling the mold with an industrial water cooler can effectively improve the surface smoothness of plastic products, reduce cracks, and ensure the shape of plastic products; At the same time, cooling the plastic mold in a short time through the water cooler can speed up the demoulding speed of plastic products, greatly improve the production efficiency of enterprises, and improve the production cost and profit of enterprises.

2.3. Safe production: For some special industries, the use of water chillers is one of the important measures to ensure the safe production of enterprises. Take the chemical industry as an example. Chemical reactions usually involve high temperature, high pressure, flammability explosion, etc. Cooling the chemical reaction kettle with industrial water chillers can effectively control the temperature of the reaction kettle, and prevent the leakage of reactants due to too high temperature, too high pressure of the reaction kettle, or even explosion, which seriously damages the life safety of enterprise employees.

3. How do industrial chillers work?

Industrial water cooled chillers are usually composed of multiple components, each of which has a specific function and works together to achieve a refrigeration effect. The following is the working principle of each part of the industrial chiller:

Cooling water circulation system: tap water or antifreeze is injected into the circulating water storage tank of the water chiller, and the refrigeration system of the industrial water chiller starts to work to cool the injected tap water; After the cooling is completed, the low-temperature chilled water will be transported by the circulating water pump to the production or experimental equipment that needs cooling, and the low-temperature chilled water will take away the heat in the production equipment, thus completing the purpose of cooling the industrial equipment. At this time, the chilled water will flow back to the water storage tank again, and so on.

Compressor: The compressor is the heart of industrial water chillers, and it is the equipment for compressing and conveying refrigerants. It provides the required temperature and pressure for the refrigeration cycle system by continuously compressing the low-temperature and low-pressure refrigerant gas into a high-temperature and high-pressure state, thus achieving the refrigeration effect.

Condenser: it cools high-temperature and high-pressure refrigerant gas into high-pressure liquid. Usually, the heat of the refrigerant is dissipated to the environment through contact with the external environment or heat exchange with other cooling media (such as water).

Evaporator: Evaporator is another important component in the refrigeration cycle. Its main function is to evaporate low-temperature and low-pressure refrigerant liquid into low-temperature and low-pressure steam and absorb the heat of the surrounding environment, thus achieving a cooling effect.

Control System: The control system includes sensors, controllers, and actuators, which are used to monitor and control the running state of industrial chillers, overload alarms, compressor currents, and the load of chillers. Adjust the flow rate, pressure, and temperature of the refrigerant to realize accurate control and adjustment of temperature.

4. How does an industrial chiller last?

Under normal circumstances, the service life of industrial chillers is as long as 15 to 20 years. But its service life is also related to many factors, such as supplier design, production quality, operating environment, operating load, maintenance, and so on.

Kassel Machinery is the world's leading chiller manufacturer, we specialise in providing high quality air-cooled chillers, water-cooled chillers, screw chillers, scroll chillers, central chillers, and portable chillers for a wide range of industries.Kassel Chillers have an excellent energy-efficiency ratio, and are able to achieve temperature control accuracy of ±1℃, and are equipped with a variety of failure alarm function to ensure efficient and stable operation 24 hours a day. If you have any questions or needs about water chillers, please feel free to contact Kassel Machinery, we will be happy to provide you with support and answers.