Water Treatment

The Hidden Costs of Poor Water Treatment in Cooling Systems

May 30, 2025May 15, 2025 by Suzanne Pinchin

Efficiency, reliability, and longevity are critical considerations in managing closed-circuit process chillers. While these units form the backbone of commercial and industrial cooling systems, their performance depends heavily on proactive and informed maintenance, especially regarding water treatment. Ignoring or inadequately managing water quality can significantly diminish system performance and drive up operational costs. Effective water … Read more

Preparing Your Chiller for Summer

May 30, 2025May 6, 2025 by Suzanne Pinchin

Summer can be an unreliable season, often bringing unexpected heatwaves. Just as an overheated car engine can cause significant issues, the loss of cooling capability from industrial chillers and cooling towers during hot weather can lead to substantial problems for manufacturers. These can include excessive downtime, damaged chiller parts, and product wastage. To prevent unexpected … Read more

ICS Cool Energy Enhances Preventive Maintenance Plans for Temperature Control Process and Industrial Equipment

August 6, 2024November 29, 2023 by icsdevelopment

New service packages help customers ensure their temperature control installations remain operational and efficient over their maximum lifespan. ICS Cool Energy, an international market leader specialising in complete temperature control solutions for manufacturing process and facilities applications, introduced today new Planned Preventive Maintenance plans, enhanced to offer one of the industry’s most comprehensive service packages … Read more

How To Manage Suspended Solids

August 6, 2024July 7, 2023 by icsdevelopment

The impact suspended solids pose on chillers We need to recognise that the contamination of closed systems can never be fully prevented. The actual history of a system can often be very difficult to determine, with legacy contaminates often poorly reported. Further introduction of organic and inorganic ‘dirt’ (contamination) adds to this collective over time. … Read more

Water treatment tips for process chillers

August 6, 2024May 2, 2023 by icsdevelopment

Efficiency, longevity, and safe operation of closed-circuit process chillers are critical and should be top of mind for those who are responsible for them. Chillers are the backbone of commercial and industrial cooling systems. However, they are not a ‘fit and forget’ solution, and there are some easy ways to look after your chiller to … Read more

Protecting Chillers In Cold Ambient Temperatures

April 26, 2024February 26, 2023 by icsdevelopment

As much as we need protection from cold weather and the effects it can have on us, our homes, our cars etc, we need to protect our chillers. It can be very costly if pipework splits due to the lack of frost protection. If not appropriately addressed beforehand, once temperatures drop below zero, we can … Read more

Reduce Manufacturing Costs – Boost Your Green Credentials

September 30, 2024April 24, 2018 by Suzanne Pinchin

Reduce Manufacturing Costs – Boost Your Green Credentials Energy consumption is typically the single biggest cost for manufacturers. In 2014, the UK’s energy consumption was equivalent to 142.8 million tonnes of oil, of which certain industrial groups consumed 24 million tonnes alone – a little under a fifth of the total[1]. It will come as … Read more

Top 6 water treatment tips for your process chiller

January 30, 2024February 14, 2017 by Suzanne Pinchin

We have published a more recent article about water treatment tips, read on here. ———— Brent Hall, Technical Manager offers his top six tips for prolonging a chiller’s life to help keep it working as efficiently as possible. Chillers are the backbone of commercial and industrial cooling systems across the country. However, they are not … Read more

Production contingency planning – it’s all in the preparation

January 30, 2024December 22, 2016 by Suzanne Pinchin

Chiller for Optical Manufacturing Process

Keeping your production running efficiently is essential for remaining profitable and keeping your customers happy. To safeguard your production process and prevent equipment from failing, preventative maintenance plans should be followed with a contingency plan in place, should the worst happen. Even the highest quality equipment can fail when not looked after correctly. In 2015, a … Read more

Don’t Fit and Forget – equipment servicing is essential

January 30, 2024November 29, 2016 by Suzanne Pinchin

Temperature control for commercial buildings and offices is vital to controlling energy consumption, and delivering effective cooling to employees and business-critical applications, such as IT server rooms. Although recent years have witnessed a focus on building controls and their integration into the wider building management system (BMS), facilities managers can overlook the critical maintenance of … Read more