It can be either air cooled a coil or coils and a fan or fans or water cooled another shell tube heat exchanger cooled by cooling tower or other water.
Air cooled chiller circuit diagram.
Circuit schematic of air cooled portable water chiller to 4 tons.
Air cooled water chiller.
The process fluid absorbs heat from what is being cooled and then goes through the chiller where the heat is removed from the fluid and transferred to the ambient air.
First it removes the refrigerant vapor from the evaporator and reduces the pressure in the evaporator to a point where the desired evaporating temperature can be maintained.
The compressor has two functions in the refrigerant cycle.
For the remainder of this article we will focus on water cooled chillers and cooling towers.
I ll show you some examples of how chillers are illustrated in schematics as it really varies.
Air cooled chillers will use fans to blow cool ambient air over their condenser to remove heat from the system this type does not use a cooling tower.
Industrial water or glycol chiller systems contain two main circuits.
1 1 air cooled condenser.
Compressor 1 the compressor has two functions in the refrigerant cycle.
You can learn about this system and watch the video tutorial by clicking here.
We ll first start with the chiller.
Air cooled chiller schematic.
The two in the top right and the one in the bottom right are all air cooled chillers and the rest are water cooled.
Chilled water schematic examples different chiller representations.
The refrigeration circuit is made up of four.
A type of condenser where refrigerant flows through the tubes and rejects heat into a flow of ambient air most chiller units are fitted with air cooled condensers.