In today's competitive business environment, companies and governments alike are actively pursuing and demanding improved performance and efficiency standards when it comes to process cooling.
Global engineering organisation Frigel, has been leading this demand for innovative change for 50 years.
Some of the world’s top-performing manufacturers and HVAC industry are turning to Frigel to move beyond traditional cooling tower and central chiller systems in order to achieve verifiably better results – in efficiency, water use, uptime and nearly every other measure that counts.
The Australian market continues to be one of the few successful developed economies in the world and Frigel Australia has been offering the market here a comprehensive engineering solution that meets these high environmental and efficiency standards and demands.
In particular, many Australian companies are now embracing Frigel’s Ecodry 3DK coolers. The product’s success lies in its worldwide patented adiabatic chamber.
The unique dry-cooling technology can reduce water use up to 95 per cent compared to traditional cooling towers. With no evaporation of process water, the Ecodry 3DK keeps water clean and equipment scale-free.
Just as important, significant energy savings can be made because providing clean water at the right temperature allows the closed-loop cooling to minimise maintenance and increases the efficiency of a plant’s operation and bottom line.
In a major acknowledgment to this technology, Frigel Australia was chosen to supply the cooling equipment for the Victorian Government’s premier $650 million project, – the new Bendigo Hospital, located in the regional city of Bendigo.
Frigel Australia managing director, Roger Ong said the hospital project is the largest of its kind in the Southern Hemisphere and has a heat rejection capability of 11 MW.
He said the Ecodry 3DK allows the hospital’s coolers to operate with remarkably low energy and water consumption across a wide range of environmental and climatic conditions, making it a far superior alternative to traditional cooling systems like evaporative cooling towers.
“Evaporative cooling has challenges of its own and risks such as legionella control and high chemical usage,” Ong said.
“It was extremely important that the hospital eliminated these risk and set the standard for improved efficiency and performance and lead by example for the wider business community,”
The Ecodry 3DK uses an ambient air system, delivering energy savings through the use of variable speed fans only when needed, low thermal losses, low noise, efficient motors and intelligent control systems.
The technology can be applied to multiple industries and applications such as data centres, district cooling, plastics and industrial processes.
For more information email r.ong@frigel.com