Standard Features:
- Separate Refrigeration circuits each compressor
- Galva bond Steel frame and panels
- Powder Coat Finish (Admiralty Grey Standard)
- Fully Weatherproof (CA models)
- Unique Serviceable Shell & Tube evaporator
- Variable speed condenser fans
- Evaporator shell Hot Dip Galvanised
- Controls standard for Normal or Low Temperature operation
- Capacity control, Hot Gas Bypass on single compressor
units 20kw and above, Dual and Triple compressors on Larger
units
Factory Fitted Options:
- Units can be supplied with
- Built in chilled water tank
- Stand alone tanks to order
- Single or dual pumps
- Stainless steel heat exchangers
- All copper or treated coils
- Soft Start control
- Heat recovery condensers
- Water Heating circuit
- Marine condensers
- Condensing unit only configuration
- DDC / BMS interface capabilities.
Overview on our Products and
Services :
The Australian air conditioning and packaged water chiller
industry has been through a series of upheavals in recent
years.
Four major companies - Trane, Emailair, Carrier, and more
recently, York have closed their Australian manufacturing
operations in the past five years, most preferring to
rely on imports from their overseas factories.
Melbourne-based Fluid Chillers Australia Pty Ltd has taken
up some of the void left in the Australian packaged water
chiller market, by offering an Australian designed, Australian
made product with deliveriy times of 4 to 6 weeks normally
achieved.
Fluid Chillers Australia manufacturers its "CA" series
of weatherproof, air-cooled water chillers in a range
with nominal capacities from 10kW to 115kW, and " CW"
water cooled units are available from 10kW to 120kW.
Multiple units are used where larger capacity is required.
All units are suitable for chilling water down to 4șC
or glycol or ethanol water down to -10șC.
A range of factory options is offered, from built-in water
tanks, single or dual pumps, alternative refrigerants,
heat recovery condensers, remote evaporators, secondary
precise temperature control systems allowing Fluid Chillers
to offer a standard range of chillers with fitted options
to meet project requirements.
Fluid Chillers Australia has built in excess of 500 packaged
water chillers since March 1999 and current production
is over 100 units per year and growing.
The majority of these units have been built for Fluid
Chillers Australia's customers for application in the
wine, food, dairy products, packaging and related industries,
with recently a greater percentage of units going to Air
Conditioning and Cooling Tower replacement applications.
There are, in fact, very few manufacturing processes which
do not need or employ a packaged water chiller as a primary
refrigeration source. A real growth area for packaged
chillers has been the food industry, both in Primary and
Processing/Packaging areas.
In years gone by, large manufacturers and food processors
installed quite complex industrial refrigeration systems.
While the installation, maintenance and operating costs
of these plants was acceptable because of their size,
the costs proved to be un-economical when scaled down
to suit the smaller manufacturer.
The introduction over the past twenty years or so of the
small and medium capacity packaged water and brine chillers
has enabled smaller manufacturers to install refrigeration
systems which allow the same process control as their
larger competitors.
The CA - CW chillers are Australian designed for Australian
conditions. All units are weatherproof and suitable for
indoor or outdoor installation.
Frames and panels are heavily powder coated over galvabond
steel.
All units feature serviceable shell and tube evaporators
with unique hot dip galvanised shells, and on water cooled
models are mechanically cleanable. Shell and tube Marine
condensers are available as an option. All vessels are
built to comply with AS1210. Fluid Chillers Australia
have considered plate type evaporators because of their
cheaper cost, however prefer to use shell and tube vessels,
because of their proven service life, and ability to handle
less than pristine water conditions.
On air-cooled units, condenser coils are five row on most
models, with maximum 12 FPI (Service histories have shown
that coils with high fins per inch, up to 19 FPI, do not
survive well under Australian conditions). All models
feature an easily removable, full top panel to fully expose
condenser coils, fans and motors for servicing. |
