How a chiller works.
Water cooled chiller diagram.
Water cooling system diagram working of water cooling system.
In a water cooled condenser water from a cooling tower cools and condenses the refrigerant.
The half closed cooling system is designed to circulate cooling water through the block only.
To put it simply industrial chillers cool process fluids.
Animated schematic to 30 tons.
For the remainder of this article we will focus on water cooled.
Diagram of water cooling liquid cooling system.
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.
An air cooled condenser uses ambient air to cool and condense the hot refrigerant gas back down to a liquid.
Process fluids typically water or a water glycol mix are used to cool machinery equipment food etc.
You can learn about this system and watch the video tutorial by clicking here.
Of course there are some other methods like passive cooling or mineral oil but those are in really small portion.
Compressor 1 the compressor has two functions in the refrigerant cycle.
The two in the top right and the one in the bottom right are all air cooled chillers and the rest are water cooled.
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.
We ll first start with the chiller.
At the top of the cylinder head all the channels converge to a single outlet.
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.
An hvac heating ventilating and air conditioning cooling tower is used to dispose of reject unwanted heat from a chiller water cooled chillers are normally more energy efficient than air cooled chillers due to heat rejection to tower water at or near wet bulb temperatures air cooled chillers must reject heat at the higher dry bulb temperature and thus have a lower average reverse.
I ll show you some examples of how chillers are illustrated in schematics as it really varies.
It can be located inside the chiller or can be remotely located outside but ultimately it rejects the heat from the chiller to the air.
From there it will pass through the raw water pump.
Air cooled water chiller.
As shown in the diagram below raw water is picked up through the drive pickup or through a hull mounted pickup if present it will pass through a sea strainer to clean debris out of the water.
Chilled water schematic examples different chiller representations.
Custom loop water cooling pc.
A water cooled engine block and cylinder head have interconnected coolant channels running through them.