Industrial Chillers

1. Addressing your critical industrial refrigeration challenges

For a business owner or operations manager, managing a modern production facility involves a constant balance between complex and often conflicting needs. Reducing energy costs, optimizing systems, and simplifying management are daily challenges. In a landscape marked by continuously rising energy and raw material costs and a growing focus on sustainability, industrial refrigeration has also become a critical strategic lever.

Today, those who manage an industrial process are not just looking for a refrigeration chiller, but a complete solution that addresses critical challenges.

• Containing operational costs in a volatile environment. The surge in energy costs and the prudent management of precious resources like water demand uncompromising efficiency. Obsolete or unoptimized refrigeration systems can consume excess energy, heavily impacting operating margins and business competitiveness. The challenge, therefore, is to adopt intelligent technologies that modulate consumption based on actual production needs.

• Complying with increasingly stringent environmental regulations. The European regulatory framework, from the revision of the F-Gas Regulation to the REACH Regulation, is pushing the industry towards more conscious use of refrigerants and a sustainable approach. Choosing a technology today means not only being compliant but also anticipating future restrictions (such as those related to PFAS), avoiding the risk of ending up with an obsolete and expensive system to update in a few years.

• Ensuring maximum reliability to avoid production downtime. The overheating of machinery or an uncontrolled temperature fluctuation can cause costly operational shutdowns, delivery delays, and material waste. A refrigeration system must be a reliable partner, capable of ensuring precise and constant temperatures 24/7, thereby protecting the quality of the final product and business continuity.

• Simplifying management and having a single point of contact. Upgrading or installing a refrigeration system can mean coordinating dozens of different suppliers, resulting in a huge waste of time and resources. True efficiency comes from the ability to rely on a single partner to manage the entire “turnkey” project: from chiller design to the integration of auxiliary machines, from hydraulic connections to advanced control logic.

At MITA Cooling Technologies, we understand that these challenges require a response that goes beyond simply supplying a piece of equipment. Thanks to the synergy with other companies in the Group, such as Frigofluid, we offer true turnkey industrial refrigeration plants: integrated and customized solutions designed to solve the critical issues of your production process, ensuring energy efficiency, operational stability, and environmental responsibility.

2. Complete guide to Industrial Process Chillers

What exactly is an Industrial Chiller and when is it needed? An industrial chiller is a refrigeration system designed to remove heat from a process fluid, usually water or a water-glycol mixture, through a refrigeration cycle consisting of multiple components: compressor, condenser, evaporator, and expansion valve. Once cooled by the chiller, the process fluid can then circulate again through process equipment (heat exchangers, molds, machinery) to control its temperature.

The chiller unit is the heart of many industrial process cooling systems.

You might find these equivalent terms:

• compression chiller,

• cooling chiller or refrigeration chiller,

• refrigeration unit or refrigeration group,

• refrigeration system or refrigeration plant,

• industrial cooler,

• industrial chiller units,

• refrigeration unit.

When is an industrial chiller the right solution – as an alternative to cooling towers, dry coolers, and adiabatic coolers?

You need an industrial chiller in these cases.

• Need for process temperatures below ambient temperature. If the industrial process requires the working fluid to be brought well below the ambient temperature, or even sub-zero (e.g., for cooling molds, machinery, or sensitive products), mechanical cooling via a chiller is essential. Evaporative or adiabatic systems, in fact, cannot go below the wet-bulb temperature of the air.

• Precise and constant temperature control. Industrial chillers offer very accurate control of the fluid temperature, which is essential to guarantee product quality and operational safety in sectors such as food, pharmaceuticals, chemicals, plastics, printing, and metalworking. This control reduces the risks of overheating, machine failures, and production defects.

• Critical processes or continuous operation. Process chillers are designed to operate continuously, with high reliability and robustness, even in demanding conditions and with variable loads. They are preferable to standard cooling systems when production downtime is not acceptable.

• Need for separation between process fluid and refrigerant fluid. In applications where it is essential to avoid contamination between the fluid and the refrigerant (e.g., in the food, pharmaceutical, or chemical sectors), chillers are combined with dual-circuit heat exchangers, ensuring safety and hygiene.

• Adaptability and customization. Industrial chillers can be custom designed and configured to meet specific project requirements, both in terms of capacity, fluid type (water, water-glycol, etc.), and operating conditions.

When an industrial chiller is NOT necessary. If the required cooling is limited to simply lowering the temperature to values close to ambient, and precise or continuous control is not required, simpler systems such as evaporative towers, dry coolers, or adiabatic coolers may be sufficient.

3. Types of Industrial Process Chillers offered by MITA-Frigofluid

Here are the solutions available in our range of industrial chillers.

• “Standard” air-cooled chillers: use ambient air to dissipate heat using fans. (RW ax series).

• Chillers with Free-Cooling: a variant of the industrial air-cooled chiller (RW / EFC ax) with an additional operating mode. When the air is sufficiently cold, it can directly cool the fluid, bypassing the mechanical circuit, resulting in significant energy savings.

• Chillers with Eco-Friendly Refrigerants: chillers of the RP line with low Global Warming Potential (GWP) refrigerants such as R32, to comply with environmental regulations and sustainability goals.

4. State-of-the-art components in MITA-Frigofluid Industrial Chiller Systems

MITA Cooling Technologies, through its group company Frigofluid, offers industrial chiller units with state-of-the-art components to meet the various process cooling needs in United Kingdom, European Union and Americas always focusing on reliability, operational continuity, and resource optimization.

Here are the key features of our range of industrial chillers:

• Nominal thermal power: 5 – 700 kW.

• Temperature range: from -10°C to +25°C.

• External temperatures. Up to approximately +50°C.

• Available refrigerants: standard high-efficiency refrigerants like R410A and R134a (RW ax, RW / EFC ax series), highly eco-friendly low Global Warming Potential refrigerants like R290 propane and R32 difluoromethane (RP series).

• Operating mode: air-cooled condensation (RW-AX series), air-cooled condensation with activatable free-cooling mode (RW / EFC ax series).

• Compressor technology: high-efficiency hermetic scroll or rotary for reliable performance and long lifespan. In multi-compressor machines, an electronic microprocessor controls the hydraulic and refrigerant circuits.

• Evaporator technology: AISI 316 stainless steel plate heat exchangers or shell and tube heat exchangers.

• Additional options: supply of turnkey refrigeration systems (complete with auxiliary coolers, temperature controllers, skids, electrical and hydraulic connections), after-sales services such as F-Gas inspection.

The selection of refrigeration chillers is always based on the specifics of the individual project and the physical-meteorological characteristics of the installation area, understanding the unique needs of each industrial process, such as plastics, food, pharmaceuticals, or precision engineering.

5. Applications and case studies of MITA-Frigofluid industrial chillers

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7. Let's talk about your needs for industrial process chillers

Ready to optimize your process cooling?

The MITA Cooling Technologies team is available to:

• discuss your application and cooling challenges,

• provide a technical evaluation and suggest the most suitable units,

• offer a competitive quote,

• explain how our selection process ensures maximum energy efficiency.

Take the next step towards reliable and efficient industrial refrigeration!

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