Industrial Refrigeration for Automotive Sector

Chillers for the Automotive Sector

Different production lines, different types of cooling: chillers for the automotive sector must be designed for the most heterogeneous fluid outlet temperatures (water, water and glycol). Some equipment to which they can be integrated: lasers, machine tools for mechanical components, extruders or presses. The plus of temperature control to the tenth of a degree: real optimisation of internal processes.

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Examples of industries: car manufacturers, car components and aftermarket, machine tools for car production.

Main requirements: different fluid outlet temperatures depending on the individual production line, high temperature differences.

Automotive Chillers: at a glance

The manufacture of each car follows a concatenation of processes, each of which may require different types of cooling and, consequently, different types of chillers for the automotive sector.

Some examples: temperature control of machine tools/lasers and thermostatting of paint baths.

Precise temperature control is not an insignificant factor in the optimisation of internal processes: it increases hourly productivity and the life cycle of machine tools themselves, but above all reduces the percentage of product defects and the danger of downtime.

That said, here are some examples of chillers for the automotive sector:

Liquid chillers for lasers: the fine temperature regulation system using hot gas combined with the generous dimensions of the tank on board the machine allow regulation precision down to +-0.5 °C.
Liquid chillers for machine tools: cooling of mechanical components, cutting fluids and hydraulic fluids allows machine tools to work at high speed, accurately and repeatably, increasing tool life and helping to stabilise finished part dimensions.
Liquid chillers with integrated free cooling dedicated to cooling extruders or injection moulding machines: they are characterised by high head pumps to overcome pressure drops in mould cooling channels. In addition, they can operate with high temperature differences.

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Turnkey Industrial Refrigeration Plants

A refrigeration system is more than a single chiller: heat exchangers, hydraulic connections, additional cooling devices also come into play to support your production process.

Nominal thermal duty: from 60 to 230 kW

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For fluid outlet temperatures between 10°C and 25°C

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RW / EFC ax Liquid Free-Cooling Chiller

The secret of this system is the combination of the refrigeration section and the free-cooling section depending on the time of day and year: the first mode allowed by these liquid chillers takes advantage of the normal operation of a refrigeration circuit, the second allows cold outside air to be directly conveyed to the fluid to be cooled: maximum efficiency, minimum energy use due to the clear separation between the two sections.

For fluid outlet temperatures between 35°C and 50°C

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PAD-V Adiabatic Cooler Condenser

Adiabatic liquid coolers and gas condensers PAD-V series are offered where the focus is particularly on rational use of water and energy thanks to a dual operating principle, during hot and cold seasons, and thanks to the control panel that optimizes system operating parameters.

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Custom Chillers and Turnkey Plants

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