Portable Air Cooled Chiller

TopChiller: Your Leading Portable Air Cooled Chiller Supplier and Manufacture

TopChiller is a professional portable air-cooled chiller manufacturer with 20 years of experience.

All portable air-cooled chillers are also called portable chillers manufactured by TopChiller have full protection devices like compressor inner protection, over current protection, high/ low-pressure protection, over-temperature protection.

TopChiller portable air-cooled chillers also feature water flow rate protection, phase sequence/phase missing protection, low-level coolant protection, anti-freezing protection, and exhaust overheat protection. Remote control and solenoid valve are also available.

A portable air-cooled chiller from TopChiller is your best industrial water cooling partner for all applications like plastic industries, injection molding, blow molding, metalworking cutting, welding equipment.

A portable air-cooled chiller can be also used for die-casting, machine tooling, chemical processing, pharmaceutical formulation, food and beverage processing, paper processing, cement processing, vacuum systems, X-ray diffraction, power generation stations, analytical equipment, semiconductors, compressed air, and gas cooling.

Portable air-cooled chillers are also used to cool high-heat specialized items such as MRI machines and laser machines in hospitals, hotels, campuses, etc.

As a leader in portable air-cooled Chiller with 20 years of experience, TopChiller is willing to provide a total portable air-cooled chiller solution with high cooling efficiency and low cost for clients all over the world.

Ultimate Portable Air Cooled Chiller Buying Guide: How to Choose Your Portable Air Cooled Chiller

Why Do We Need Portable Air Cooled Chiller?

The term portable air cooled chiller refers to any chiller system that contains all of the necessary components – the refrigeration circuit, the reservoir, and the pump or pumps – within a single footprint.

The controls of a portable air-cooled chiller are integrated to include all motor starters and require a single-point electrical connection.

All portable air chillers are PLC controlled equipped with self-diagnostics and WIFI/LAN/LTE connectivity for the TopChiller predictive maintenance providing email/text notifications for predictive maintenance milestones, technical alarms, fault codes, and alerts to nearly eliminate downtime.

Portable air-cooled chillers are cooling systems that can be commonly found in a variety of facilities including factories, industrial applications, corporate events, arenas, hotels, hospitals, warehouses, and so forth.

Portable air-cooled chillers can be divided into two categories: stationary and portable.

Portable air-cooled chillers are the most popular compared to other types of chillers if we need chillers for small loads, temporary, test, and emergency applications as portable chillers are compact, highly efficient, easy for installation, and removal.

To put it simply, portable air-cooled chillers can help keep systems or devices cool.

Over-discharged heat will slow down the operation of the machines, create more useless materials, and, consequently, produce smaller profit margins.

A portable air chiller will transfer wasted heat and keep the equipment operating smoothly, even when temperatures are high.

Portable Air Cooled Chiller

How Does a Portable Air Cooled Chiller Work?

Let’s have a look at the below video of the portable air-cooled chiller to get a general idea about this kind of chiller.

There is an evaporator in a portable air-cooled chiller that can absorb the heat from chilled water.

The vapor created during the absorption is taken away by the compressor where the vapor is pressurized and heated.

Then, the vapor is pumped into the condenser by the compressor. Eventually, the vapor pushes the heat out of the device.

Due to pressurization and cooling, the refrigerant moves in cooled tubes where its temperature is reduced.

Eventually, the refrigerant goes back over the chilled tubes and absorbs more heat and this makes the whole procedure become a cycle, thus providing continuous cooling from a portable air-cooled chiller.

From the above explanation, we can have a general idea of the working diagram of a portable air-cooled chiller.

What Is a Portable Air Cooled Chiller Composed Of?

A portable air-cooled chiller consists of a compressor, evaporator, condenser, throttle device, water pump, water tank, electronic controlling system, cooling fans, etc.

In this part, we will elaborate on some key components of a portable air-cooled chiller.

Compressor: The compressor of portable air-cooled chillers is the refrigeration power of the whole chiller and its function is to compress the gas from low temperatures into high temperatures and then exchange heat with other media in the heat exchanger.

Evaporator: If it is a portable air-cooled packaged chiller, the evaporator is generally a water tank coil evaporator.

Some customers also use a plate-exchange evaporator according to their needs. Its function is to harness liquid low-temperature refrigerant to evaporate at low pressure, convert it into steam and absorb the heat of the cooling medium to realize cooling.

Condenser: Its function is to cool down the refrigerant steam released from the compressor into a liquid or gas-liquid mixture.

The heat discharged by the refrigerant in the condenser is carried away by air.

This is a space where the refrigerant exchanges the heat and finishes the transfer.

Thermal Expansion Valve:

The thermal expansion valve is another important refrigeration part for a portable air-cooled chiller.

A thermal expansion valve, often abbreviated as TEV, is a component in a portable air-cooled chiller that controls how much the refrigerant is unleashed into the evaporator and keeps the heat at a stable level.

The value makes sure that the refrigerant becomes vapor after leaving the evaporator, and, at the same time, the value provides sufficient liquid refrigerant to the evaporator’s coils, thereby achieving heat exchange at a better rate.

Water Pump: The water pump is designed to increase the pressure and the flow of the chilled water in a closed space.

The water pump must be configured properly to achieve the desired outcome.

Insufficient pressure and flow will not produce enough cooling and even worse, more heat will be generated due to the high cooling load.

However, if there is no control of speed, excess pressure and flow will make the electrical system be under a heavy burden, and as a result, the electricity is wasted due to excess pumping.

Water storage tank: A water tank is used to increase the system’s capacity and stabilize water temperatures within the chiller.

It’s usually made of stainless steel and a buffer tank is needed if more storage is required to deal with peak loads or in scenarios where the demand exceeds the cooling capacity of the chiller system to better ensure the day-to-day operation of the system.

Electronic Control System：

The role of a control panel for a portable air-cooled chiller is to control the values and other devices in the system as well as monitor the operation status during the procedure.

Exhaust fan: An exhaust fan is a device equipped with one or more blades to propel the airflow over the portable air-cooled chiller.

Fans help to force out the extra hot fumes and make room for clean air to create a more comfortable working environment for the equipment.

Good quality air-cooled chiller fans can greatly improve thermal efficiency.

Various Applications of Portable Air Cooled Chillers

The standard TopChiller® portable chiller offering includes portable air-cooled chillers ranging from 1 to 150 tons incapacity.

Portable air-cooled chillers are easy to use and easy to maintain, which makes them the preferred choice for companies everywhere.

Portable Air Cooled Chillers are used in a variety of industries. Here are some examples that portable air-cooled chillers are used:

HVAC. Heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) chillers offer cooling water for industrial and commercial systems.

An HVAC chiller is composed of a compressor, condenser, thermal expansion valve, evaporator, etc.

There will be a high pressure created when the refrigerant is compressed.

The thermal expansion valve transfers the refrigerant into the evaporator and converts the warm liquid to gas which is cool and dry.

Portable air-cooled chillers are widely used in the HVAC industry.

Thermoforming

Thermoforming is an industrial process where plastic materials are heated to a perfect forming temperature.

And the plastic materials are formed to a specific shape in a mold, and after the trimming, a usable product will be created.

If we do not control the process temperature, it may lead to defects on the products such as roughness and bubbles, and even dimensional instability.

Only by keeping the thermoforming machines at a standard temperature, it is possible to guarantee the quality of the finished products.

Therefore, a portable chiller is a must in this thermoforming process.

Thermoforming-principle chiller

Laser

In the laser cutting industry, a portable chiller is mainly used in laser machines, such as laser marking and engraving machines, laser welding machines, laser printers, laser cutting machines.

Portable air-cooled chillers can precisely control the temperature required by laser equipment, thus ensuring the constant normal operation of laser equipment.

Glass

The glass needs to be cooled down rapidly after being heated at high temperatures.

However, the temperature of cooling water cannot be too high; otherwise, the tempering quality will be affected.

The chilled water provided by portable air-cooled chillers is used to cool down the water, and the water temperature will be immune to the temperature around, to ensure the quality of glass products.

Beverage

During the production of confectionery, beverages, beer, and other foods, the quality of the food will be influenced if the heat is massively generated during the production process.

Therefore, it is necessary to cool the food with a portable air-cooled chiller.

As you may understand, we can’t talk about how portable air-cooled chillers can serve in each industry.

And here we’re just naming some examples to show how portable air-cooled chillers work in the industries in which they are mainly used.

Portable air-cooled chillers are beneficial for many more industries.

If you have no idea whether portable air-cooled chillers can help your business, please contact us by sending an inquiry and our portable chiller experts will give you a solution as soon as possible.

What Makes Portable Air Cooled Chillers Different from Stationary Air Cooled Chillers?

Industrial businesses use either air-cooled chillers or water-cooled chillers to achieve the cooling effect.

When it comes to air-cooled chillers, we will divide them into stationary air-cooled chillers and portable air-cooled chillers.

So what’s the difference between the two?

Both kinds of air chillers are composed of the same components and work based on the same working principle, except the portable air-cooled chiller is smaller.

For stationary air-cooled chillers, they have better cooling capacities as they are bigger. However, portable air-cooled chillers can be installed in a small space, which means there is no need for a large room.

This makes portable air-cooled chillers a great solution for temporary cooling.

Select the Right Portable Air Cooled Chiller for Your Business

As portable air-cooled chillers are available for easy and quick installation and removal, how can we select the right portable chiller for our business?

Compact, highly efficient portable chillers are capable of fitting in very tight spaces and can be used to provide cooler temperatures in locations where stationary cooling systems have not been able to be installed.

There are many kinds of portable air-cooled chillers in the marketplace. When buying a portable air-cooled chiller, we always need to look at the following points.

Efficiency

An excellent portable air-cooled chiller should be able to deliver the optimum performance at either part-load or full-load status, which will help cut the operation costs to the lowest level.

Some basic aspects need to assess before we judge whether the unit is efficient or not.
We can check if the sound of the fans.

If the portable air-cooled chiller operates and produces too much noise, the unit cannot be defined as efficient.

However, if the propeller fans can perform at the low sound level, then that chiller deserves our attention.

The fans in TopChiller® portable air-cooled chillers are low in sound and they operate smoothly with little vibration and this makes the air chillers suitable for sound-sensitive workplaces.

Performance

Performance is the factor we always need to take into account when we are purchasing mobile phones, tablets, or household goods. Chillers are no exception.

Across a wide range of chillers, all kinds of chillers are designed to operate under certain temperatures, from the lowest temperature to the highest temperature.

In addition, the cooling capacity is also a factor that reflects the performance of a chiller. It usually ranges from dozens to hundreds (tons).

TopChiller® has designed a series of portable air-cooled chillers whose cooling capacities range from 1.5KW to 168KW. TopChiller® is capable of producing chillers in other ranges based on customers’ needs.

Affordability

If your company has a budget for chillers, there is a key factor that you cannot avoid paying attention to affordability.

The sales prices of products or services in the marketplace are mainly affected by building rent, labor costs, and operating costs.

Therefore, never say a product or service is better because it is more expensive. We have to look at the products or services themselves.

If you are selecting a portable air-cooled chiller, here is a tip. Don’t choose based on price. Choose based on its seller and performance.

If you compare the performance between the two sellers, you will know which one is better.

TopChiller® portable air-cooled chillers not only excel in terms of performance but are at low prices as well, this is the reason why TopChiller® has maintained a foothold in the industry over nearly two decades.

Durability

The durability of a portable air-cooled chiller is mostly decided by its key components. Top-quality components can guarantee durability and ensure a long product life.

If the equipment is in poor condition and requires constant maintenance, it will heavily affect the industrial operation and increase the business costs.

TopChiller® has long-term partnerships with several world-class brands for key chiller components. We source condensers from Danfoss, Sanyo, Panasonic, and so forth.

We don’t just offer one brand; instead, our chillers are made from the biggest and best brands.

Quality and Warranty

Since portable air-cooled chillers are used in industrial operation, it’s vital to ensure the equipment is highly functional.

If your portable chiller turned disordered for one minute, it could bring a huge loss to the business.

Besides the quality, we also need to look at the warranty period the seller can offer. At TopChiller®, we have served customers from over 58 countries and regions.

All of our portable chillers come with an 18-month warranty and lifetime technical support.

A Reliable Portable Air Cooled Chiller Manufacturer

It is always a wise choice to look at the supplier’s qualifications before you start a business relationship with the supplier.

It’s in particular in portable chiller chillers, the equipment that will bring direct influence to your business.

A reliable manufacturer of high-quality portable air-cooled chillers can save you a lot of time, money, and energy.

After all, no one wants to buy something which will break down after a few weeks or months.

If you have no idea how to find a desirable chiller manufacturer, you may search for a chiller on Google.

There is a large selection of portable air-cooled chillers on the Internet; you will find the chiller that suits your needs for your company.

Whether you are looking for a water-cooled chiller or an air-cooled chiller, there are always sellers awaiting your selection and cooperation.

One of the benefits that you can find if you are looking for chillers online is that there are no salesmen who breathe down your neck.

You are free to negotiate with the seller and finish the deal. Product categories are also very clear and serve as a helpful tool to locate the product type you desire.

If you can’t find something you need on the website, you may reach out to the supplier and ask for more details about the product you’re seeking.

If the seller is capable of producing customized products, then maybe this is the chance you discover the manufacturer you wanted.

This also means that the manufacturer must provide customer service channels for all visitors on the website so the potential customers can contact and ask for help.

Quick response is a key factor, especially for customers who do have not much time due to business operation.

If a company can provide a quick response to buyers’ inquiries, it’s a good sign as it reflects that the company is active and in normal operation.

However, selecting a suitable manufacturer online is not easy.

You may fall into traps and bear substantial financial losses if you are not careful. Before making online orders, always learn about the legal address of the company, contact number, and certificates.

If you want to inspect a product in person to make sure you purchase it from the right seller, you may visit physical stores, chiller exhibitions, and trade shows where various chiller manufacturers will come and offer samples for potential clients to test the machines.

You can ask the salesperson in the exhibition stand to help you find what you need, and inspect the equipment before making orders.

If you enjoy face-to-face communication, this is the better way.

In case you’re just looking for portable air-cooled chillers, you may check our product categories.

If you require a specific portable air-cooled chiller that is not shown on our website, please contact us right away for further assistance.

Portable Air Cooled Chiller Technical Specifications

Conclusion

There are many portable air-cooled chillers in the market with different cooling capacities and sizes.

Whether or not to use portable air-cooled chillers depends on what kind of application is.

The portable air-cooled chillers are a better choice compared to stationary air-cooled chillers if you are looking for temporary, test, emergency, or supplementary chillers.

Portable air-cooled chillers are environmentally friendly and they cost less in terms of maintenance.

If buyers are looking for a chiller supplier for long-term business partnerships, it’s advisable to build a business relationship with manufacturers who can offer portable air-cooled chillers that are long-enduring, affordable, efficient, and quality-assured.

TopChiller® owns various top-of-the-line chillers and can produce specific portable air-cooled chillers according to customers’ different needs and demands, which means any unit ordered from TopChiller® can be customized to meet your exact specifications.

With environmentally friendly materials, superior durability and efficiency, easy installation, our portable air-cooled chillers are ideal for all kinds of industries.

TopChiller® is proud of manufacturing the highest quality portable air-cooled chillers and providing premium customer service to every customer.

Please send your inquiry about any portable air-cooled chillers and we will respond to you within 24 hours and find the chiller that will best fit your needs.

Portable Air-Cooled Chiller-The Ultimate FAQ Guide by TopChiller

Performance, efficiency, durability, temperature maintenance, and quality are the main priorities to selecting a Portable Air-Cooled Chiller for use in different services as manufacturing industries, hotels, fermentation plots, etc.

By considering all these parameters of selection, a Portable Air-Cooled Chiller will be on first that fulfill all the basic needs, required by a company or an industry.

A Portable Air-Cooled Chiller has an important feature of easy installation as well as they can place indoors for its working.

To fully understand the working, features, components, and installation process, you need to read this guide.

Let’s start here.

1-What is a Portable Air-Cooled Chiller?

A Portable Air-Cooled Chiller is a specially designed cooling system that can be generally found in a variety of accommodations concerning its workings.

The term “Portable Air-Cooled Chiller” dictates the basic formulation of the device. It does not tell about its mobility.

Most of the portable chillers are designed in such a way that they cannot move after installation with fixation at its place.

This cooling unit can also be named ‘Portable Chiller’ or ‘mini chiller’, containing a compact design and casters.

Any chiller system containing a refrigeration circuit, the reservoir, and the pumps as basic components for efficiently working can be called out as a ‘’Portable Air-Cooled Chiller’’.

Generally, the size of a Portable Air-Cooled Chiller is about 15 tons to 500 tons.

The size can be increased from normal 500 tons to 1500 tons with optional equipment if may use with a Portable Air-Cooled Chiller.

A Portable Air-Cooled Chiller seems to be used in factories, industrial applications, arenas, hotels, corporate events, hospitals, warehouses, and many other services because a Portable Air-Cooled Chiller keeps the system cool by transferring waste heat outside when there will be a high temperature inside a system.

Portable Air Cooled Chiller

2. From Which Components a Portable Air-Cooled Chiller is Composed of?

A Portable Air-Cooled Chiller is mainly composed of the following components for its working.

• Compressor
• Evaporator
• Condenser
• Throttle device
• Water pump
• Water tank
• Electronic controlling system
• Cooling fans, etc.

These components of a Portable Air-Cooled Chiller works in different manners to collectively perform a function that is about providing cooling to a system /device.

Compressor

The main function of the compressor in a Portable Air-Cooled Chiller is to compress the gas from lower temperature to high temperature.

After compressing the gas, the compressor will be able to exchange the heat with other media in the heat exchanger to maintain temperature.

The compressor provides the refrigeration power to a Portable Air-Cooled Chiller.

The compressor compresses the refrigerant vapor to raise its pressure, and drives it into the coils on the outside of the refrigerator, and supports heat transferring.

Evaporator

A water tank coil evaporator is generally present in a Portable Air-Cooled chiller. The plate-exchange evaporator can also be used for a Portable Air-Cooled Chiller depending upon the needs of customers.

Plat-exchange evaporator works to evaporate liquid low-temperature refrigerant at low pressure.

After the evaporation process, it converts refrigerant into steam and absorbs the heat of the cooling medium to release cooling.

Condenser

The condenser makes sure condensing of the refrigerant (released from compressor) and converts it into liquid. The purpose is to cool down the refrigerant stream.

During condensation, the heat discharged by the refrigerant in the condenser is carried away by air. At this point, the refrigerant exchanges the heat and finishes the transferring process of heat.

Water Pump

The water pump increases the pressure and maintains the flow of the chilled water in a closed space.

The water pump must be designed in such a proper way that it must give the desired outcomes.

If the water pump is not configured properly to provide sufficient pressure then the flow of chilled water will not produce enough cooling. As a result, more heat will be produced due to the high cooling load.

In other cases, if there will be no control of speed in water pumps, high pressure and flow of chill water will raise a burden on electricity.

As a result, there would be a great chance of high electricity usage making an increment in expenses.

So water pumps should be maintained accordingly.

Water Storage Tank

The water tank of the Portable Air-Cooled Chiller is made of stainless steel. The water tank’s function is to increase the system’s capacity and make sure the stability of water temperature within the chiller.

If more storage and capacity for a cooling system is required, a buffer tank is used to deal with peak loads and the demand exceeds the cooling capacity of the chiller system to ensure better performance in the operation of the whole system.

Electronic Control System

In a Portable Air-Cooled Chiller, the main function of the control system is to monitor the operation status, maintenance of valves, and all other devices during the whole procedure.

Exhaust Fan

The exhaust fan is a device containing blades to coerce the airflow over the Portable Air-Cooled Chiller and discharge heat out of the system.

Exhaust Fans help chillers to move out the extra hot vapors/air to provide more room for clean air. So exhaust fans provide a more comfortable working environment to a Portable Air-Cooled Chiller.

For better thermal efficiency, always use exhaust fans of high quality.

Portable Air-Cooled Chiller Compressor

3-What are the Basic Features of a Portable Air-Cooled Chiller?

The Portable Air-Cooled Chiller has key features with top quality and non-proprietary components that are set up in such a way to stand up for a highly efficient process and plant environment.

Each Industrial Portable Air-Cooled Chiller is designed with highly efficient features and factory testing is done before shipping to ensure the top quality of Portable Chiller.

TopChillers and Buzdar industries are keenly working to manipulate a Portable Air-Cooled Chiller with top quality having the following features.

• Programmable Logic Controller
• Non-Ferrous construction
• Evaporator made of Stainless steel/brazed plate with copper pipe
• The extra-large reservoir made of stainless steel
• Stainless steel pumps
• Valves
• Optional electronic hot gas by-pass valves with superb cooling capacity control
• Aluminum tank level gauge erected in thermometer
• Pump motor solid-state with overload protection
• Huge sized refrigerant filter
• Air inlet filters
• Large Copper Condensing Coil with Aluminum Fins
• Heavy Gauge, Powder Coated, Steel Cabinet
• Stainless Steel Centrifugal Pumps
• The capability of removing access panels
• Cabinets coated with Powder
• Pre-mounted condenser
• Water regulating valve
• Factory tested before shipment
• Highly sized Magnetic Contactors
• 10´ power cord
• Pressure gauges

Programmable Logic Controller of Portable Air-Cooled Chiller

4-How does a Portable Air-Cooled Chiller Work?

A Portable Air-Cooled Chiller is composed of some basic components as discussed above. All of these components work together to perform a function that is about releasing cooling in a system.

Stage 1: A Portable Air-Cooled Chiller works to provide a cooling effect by absorbing the heat from processed water. When water circulates in the air handler system, it becomes warm and is sent back to the chiller for getting cool.

Heat absorbed by water from the system is transferred away from the water using the chiller’s evaporator. Liquid refrigerant (used in the evaporator) evaporates by using heat coming from heated water.

Refrigerant continues to evaporate as it moves over the evaporator tube, resulting in the production of a low-pressure gas from a liquid refrigerant.

Stage 2: After the production of low pressured gas, the evaporated refrigerant travels to the compressor of a Portable Air-Cooled Chiller.

Stage 3: In a compressor, low-pressure gas is compressed into a high-pressure gas. The gas with high pressure leaves the compressor and moves to the Portable Air-Cooled Chiller condenser.

Stage 4: In the condenser, all of the heat is removed from the chiller by being blown outside through exhaust fans put on the side of the condenser.

Stage 5: As the heat is removed from the system by blown air outside of the chiller so it would be ideal to place the chiller outdoors or must be set in a large indoor location that will not be affected by the excess heat coming through exhaust air.

Stage 6: After the gas leaves the condenser move outside, the refrigerant converts into a high-pressure liquid. The high-pressure liquid travels back to the evaporator through the expansion valve.

As high-pressure liquid reaches the evaporator, again refrigerant will convert from a high-pressure liquid to a low-pressure liquid.

Because an industrial chiller works in a continuous cyclic way, this low-pressure liquid is then moved back to the evaporator where the whole cycle will repeat itself to maintain the temperature at cooling criteria.

5-What are the Major Applications of a Portable Air-Cooled Chiller?

A Portable Air-Cooled Chiller is easy to use for cooling purposes in different services. It can easily move for installation which makes it the first preferred choice for companies.

A variety of industries used the Portable Air Cooled Unit for maintenance of temperature.

Below content will dictate some of its major applications as:

Thermoforming

An industrial process where plastic materials are heated to a perfect manufacturing temperature is called Thermoforming.

Through this process, plastic materials are designed in a specific shape /mold, and after the trimming, a usable product will be created with a new form.

Temperature is maintained by using a Portable Air-Cooled Chiller.

In case of no usage of a Portable Air-Cooled Chiller, defects may occur in products such as roughness and bubbles, and dimensional variability.

Therefore, a Portable Air-Cooled Chiller is a necessity in the thermoforming process.

Glass Manufacturing

During glass manufacturing, glass needs to be cooled down quickly after being heated at high temperatures.

However, the temperature of cooling water should not be high; otherwise, the softening quality will be affected with bad results.

A Portable Air-Cooled Chiller provides chilled water that is used to cool down the water, and the water temperature will regulate the temperature around, to ensure the quality of glass products.

Laser Industry

In the laser cutting industry, a Portable Air-Cooled Chiller is mainly used in laser machines, such as laser marking and carving machines, laser welding machines, laser cutting machines, and laser welding machines.

A Portable Air-Cooled Chiller regulates the temperature as per directions of temperature required by laser equipment, thus ensuring the better normal operation of laser equipment.

Beverage Industry

In fermentation industries, during the manufacturing of beverages, beer, and other foods, the quality of the food will be influenced if the heat is extremely generated during the fermentation process.

Therefore, it is important to control heat to cool the food with the help of a Portable Air-Cooled Chiller. So it’s a fact that a Portable Air-Cooled Chiller is beneficial for many more industries.

Portable Air Cooled Chiller is Widely Used in Beverage Industry

6- What is the Main Difference between a Portable Air-Cooled and a Water-Cooled Chiller?

Time Consumption

A Portable Air-Cooled Chiller resembles “radiators” of vehicles that cool automobile engines. They use a motorized blower while a Portable Air-Cooled Chiller uses a Compressor to force air across a grid of refrigerant lines.

A Portable Air-Cooled Chiller condenser requires ambient temperatures of 95°F (35°C) or below to function effectively.

Water-cooled condensers execute the same function as Portable Air-Cooled Chiller condensers, but it requires two steps, instead of one, to complete the heat transferring process.

Cost

A Portable Air-Cooled Chiller costs pointedly less per ton than water-cooled systems because they require few components for their complete design and operation.

Installation

Installation of a Portable Air-Cooled Chiller is faster and much easier than that of a water-cooled chiller installation as it requires three things: a chiller location, electrical service, and process water pump and piping connections for installing purpose

Location for Settling a Portable Air-Cooled Chiller

Most of the Water-Cooled Chillers are located outside for work, while a Portable Air-Cooled Chiller is placed indoors most of the time, from where they transfer a stream of warm air directly from the condenser to the plant floor.

This may be detrimental except during cool weather when the warm airflow produced by the condenser fan can create an increment to a plant’s space heating system.

Water Cooled Chiller

7-How to Size a Portable Air-Cooled Chiller for Your Application?

A Portable Air-Cooled Chiller is available for easy and quick installation and removal, so you can select the right Portable chiller for our application.

Variety of a Portable Air-Cooled Chiller is available in the market. To buy a Portable Air-Cooled Chiller and to size it according to your application, we need to consider the following points.

 Warranty and Quality

Since the Portable Air-Cooled Chiller is used in industries so it is important to ensure that equipment should be highly functional for your application.

As if a Portable Air-Cooled Chiller turned disordered for one minute, it may cause a huge loss to the business.

Besides the quality, we must move to look at the warranty life span that the seller is offering.

TopChillers Company provides an 18-month warranty and lifetime technical support for a Portable Air-Cooled Chiller.

Performance

Performance is the key factor you should always consider taking into account when we are going to purchase mobile phones or household goods.

Chillers are no exception using performance as a parameter of selection.

A wide range of Portable Air-Cooled Chiller is designed to operate under certain temperature ranges from the lowest to the highest temperature.

In addition to the temperature factor, the cooling capacity is also a factor that reveals the performance of a specific chiller.

Cooling capacity ranges from dozens to hundreds (tons). A Portable Air-Cooled Chiller is available in a variety of ranges and sizes.

Affordability

If your company has mentioned a budget to purchase a Portable Air-Cooled Chiller, then affordability must be a key factor to size a chiller for your application.

Therefore, never say a product is better because it is more expensive. We have to consider products or services themselves with perspectives of the need of your application.

If you are going to select a Portable Air-Cooled Chiller, Don’t choose it based on price. Choose based on its seller and performance.

TopChillers provide chillers with good performance.

Portable Air-Cooled chiller is not only outclassed in performance but is available at low prices as well, this is the reason why Portable Air Cooled Chiller has maintained a foothold in the industry.

Durability

The durability of a Portable Air-Cooled Chiller is mostly decided by the key components from which it is designed. Top-quality components can guarantee durability and make sure a long product life.

If the equipment is in poor condition and not of good quality as well as always requiring constant maintenance, it will greatly affect the industrial operation and increase the business costs.

TopChiller® has long-term partnerships with several world-class brands for getting key chiller components with high quality.

TopChillers not only offer one brand; instead, their chillers are made from the biggest and best brands.

Efficiency

A superb quality Portable Air-Cooled Chiller must be able to deliver the ideal performance, which will help cut the operation costs to the lowest level.

Here are some basic features that need to consider before we judge whether the unit is efficient or not.

If the Portable Air-Cooled Chiller runs and produces too much noise, the system/device cannot be considered efficient.

Anyhow, if the propeller fans operate at a low sound level, then that chiller will be to deserve our attention.

Top Chiller® Portable Air-Cooled Chiller works efficiently and their fans are low in sound and they work smoothly with little vibration and this makes the air chillers suitable for sound-sensitive workplaces.

8-How to Install Your Portable Air-Cooled Chiller?

Step 1: Ensure the Covering during Shipping

The Portable Air-Cooled Chiller comes fully assembled in a single crate. The Portable Air-Cooled Chiller is shipped without the casters attached as with separate parts.

The casters must be attached during unpacking for making them functional.

Step2: Unloading and Removal of Packing Material

After unshipping, uncrate the chiller and its components. Remove all packing material, protective paper from device components.

Step 3: Inspection of Each Component

Inspect and save serial numbers and terms mentioned for the chiller in the blanks mentioned on the back of the User Guide’s title page.

Carefully examine all components of the chiller to make sure no impairment occurred during shipping.

Select the location for the chiller. Try to Position the chiller as close to the process machine as possible

Step 4: Ensure that the Area Where Chiller is Installed Must Have

• A grounded power source

Clearance for maintenance and safe operation

Step 5: Processing Plumbing Connection

• The male pipe threads should be clean
• Make sure to wrap threads with Teflon or pipe dope.
• Connect valves on the back of the chiller From Process tubing. Start by hand until the threads occupy the position, then tighten with a pipe wrench.
• Tighten should be enough to prevent leaks, not to be over-tighten.

Step 6: Filling the Chiller

The Portable Air-Cooled Chiller is shipped without coolant. Fill chiller manually during installation. Use water as the coolant at 40°F (4°C). Less than 40°F and down to 20°F (-7°C), use ethylene glycol.

Step 7: Check the Coolant Level

When the chiller is turned on, the coolant level drops as the coolant starts to circulate. Also, check the coolant level on the back of the chiller.

Step 8: Checking Refrigerant Charge

All chillers are fully charged with refrigerant at the factory during manufacturing. Check out the refrigerant charge while the chiller is working. Check the refrigerant charge also through the sight glass.

Step 9: Connecting the Main Power Source

• Connect all the power wires to the terminals.
• Check out the terminal screws to make sure the wires are secure. If there is any wire loose, use a screwdriver to tighten terminals.
• Make sure to connect the ground wire to the grounding lug.

Step 10: PLC Control

• PLC control on start warns not to press any button after applying power to the chiller for about 8 hours.
• PLC control can be done manually for checking the pump rotation.
• It is also used to point leaks manually by pressing buttons on-screen display.
• Disconnect the chiller from the main power supply and repair any leaks. Dry out any moisture inside the chiller.
• Reconnect the main power supply. And start to run the Portable Air-Cooled Chiller.

Portable Air Cooled Chiller Refrigerant Checking

9-How to Troubleshoot the Portable Air-Cooled Chiller Problems?

Below Content will Share some tips to Troubleshoot Portable Air-Cooled Chiller issues.

Voltage Ups and Down

Unsuitable line voltage or loose connection may cause the problem for efficiently working of a Portable Air-Cooled Chiller. Troubleshoot this by checking voltage by Ohm meter and adjusting it accordingly.

Process Restrictions

After starting the chiller, you need to checkout pump rotation, the compressor working, and the sight glass.

If the chiller is not working properly at any time, press the red stop button to turn off the chiller. Analyze the problem, troubleshoot it by replacing default parts with new ones or repairing them.

Wait for the initial warm-up of a Portable Air-Cooled Chiller. Make sure three-phase components are in rotation. If yes then no need to check.

If rotation does not occur properly, call an expert to check it out for troubleshooting of the device.

Refrigerant Leak

Refrigerant can be leak out from the Portable Air-Cooled Chiller due to high pressure from circulating tubes.

To troubleshoot this go to the display screen of a Portable Air-Cooled Chiller. Press on the option of ’Run’. After that scroll down and go to the manual option.

In the manual press on’ pump on’. This will locate the leakage point/leakage valves. Cut off the electric power supply from the Portable Air-Cooled Chiller.

Repair all valves and again on the power supply for efficient working.

Refrigerant Icing

If the temperature not going to stop at adjusted temperature, instead of going down cause the icing of refrigerant.

To troubleshoot this check the amount of water added perfectly or not in glycol. Make sure their mix in equal proportions to prevent icing.

Voltage Checking for Portable Air Cooled Chiller

10- How Can You Maintain your Portable Air-Cooled Chiller?

For durability and efficient working of a Portable Air Cooled, here are some instructions for the maintenance of your device.

Appoint a Qualified Technician

Make sure that all wiring and disconnects should be installed by qualified electrical technicians concerning electrical codes suitable to your region.

After installation, start your device and make sure not to process any button after the power supply for about 8 hours so that it maintains itself for better working.

Maintain a Safe Ground

Always maintain a safe ground for a Portable Air-Cooled Chiller. Do not operate the equipment at power levels other than what is specified on the machine serial tag and data plate.

Selection of Suitable Climate

Maintain environmental conditions for better working of chillers. If you set your Portable device at a place near to heat generating plant, it would be difficult for a Portable Air-Cooled Chiller to transfer heat out of the system.

Daily Cleaning

Maintain cleaning of a Portable Air-Cooled Chiller Tubing. Electrical contacts should be examined and cleaned on daily basis.

Maintain your Daily Records about the overall working of a Portable Air-Cooled Chiller.

Inspect the Filter Dryers

Filter dryers should be inspected, old or faulty filters should replace entirely.

Portable Air-Cooled Chiller Filter Dryer

11-How to Increase the Working Efficiency of your Portable Air-Cooled Chiller?

The maximum efficiency of the Portable Air-Cooled Chiller seems to be running at approximately 70-75 percent load.

Maximum chiller efficiency is producing the greatest tonnage at the lowest kilowatt usage that can be achieved by manipulating and managing your device in a good way as follows.

Prevention from Corrosion by Cleaning

Over time, In a Portable Air-Cooled Chiller tubing, corrosion can accumulate and impede the removal of generated heat.

Therefore, it is necessary that regular or yearly cleaning of chiller tubes should be scheduled and carried out for efficient working of a Portable Air-Cooled Chiller.

Measurement of Glycol Concentration for Refrigerant

The evaporator is the most sensitive component to freezing, even during normal operation. The fluid entering the evaporator must be capable of passing through without forming ice.

For this measure glycol for an adjustable addition in water for refrigerant formation.

Preserving Design Flow Rates

Maintain condenser and evaporator design flow rates to make sure 90% laminar flow for efficient working of a Portable Air-Cooled Chiller (as flow decrease working efficiency).

FAQ of Portable Air-Cooled Chiller

Q 1: How does a Portable Air-Cooled Chiller Lower the Temperature?

A Portable Air-Cooled Chiller is a special device that releases cooling in a system by transferring heat out of the system. The Compressor of the chiller compresses air towards the evaporator.

The Condenser transfer heat to the exhaust fan that transfers heat out of the system.

Q 2: Where is a Portable Air-Cooled Chiller Applicable?

A Portable Air-Cooled Chiller has vast applications in different services.

A Portable Air-Cooled chiller is applicable in Glass formation, fermentation industries, Beverages, and thermoforming to maintain temperature.

Q 3: What are the Key Features of a Portable Air-Cooled Chiller?

• Programmable Logic Controller
• Non-Ferrous construction
• Evaporator made of Stainless steel/brazed plate with copper pipe
• The extra-large reservoir made of stainless steel
• Stainless steel pumps
• Valve

Q 4: What is the Function of Exhaust Fan in a Portable Air-Cooled Chiller?

The exhaust fan in the Portable Air-Cooled chiller blew out the heat from the system, to produce a cooling effect inside a system.

Q 5: Why a Portable Air-Cooled Chiller is More Preferred to Choose for an Application?

A Portable Air-Cooled Chiller is more preferred to choose from because of its easy installation, movability as well its adjustability indoors for working.

Q 6: Is Portable Air-Cooled Chiller is Durable?

Yes because a Portable Air-Cooled Chiller is manufactured with a material that can resist the harms of weather.

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