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Free Cooling
Free Cooling allows businesses to recover up to 80% of their process cooling energy costs by utilising lower ambient temperatures to cool their process application and reducing the need to power the chiller.
Available as independent units or integrated with your process chiller, free coolers can be retrofitted into your existing process or installed as part of a turnkey solution.
Working with businesses in the manufacturing and facilities management industries, we has been providing free cooling solutions for over 35 years, helping businesses lower their energy costs and reduce their environmental impact.
Given the intrinsically process-heavy nature of the UK’s industrial manufacturing, process cooling is one of the biggest costs incurred. For many industrial end-users, process cooling is achieved solely via an air or water-cooled chiller or cooling tower.
However, all industrial applications with a water leaving temperature of 10°C or more – regardless of sector – can start to be cooled via the external ambient air temperature, rather than by electro-mechanical refrigeration, thanks to a process known as free cooling.
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Industrial Free Cooling Benefits
Up to 80% energy cost savings
One of the stand-out benefits of a free cooling system is the sheer amount of energy – and therefore utility bills – it can save.
While free cooling can bring about a reduction in energy consumption for any process cooling application with a water leaving temperature of 10°C or more, it should be particularly attractive to larger manufacturers, such as those working in the chemical and pharmaceutical sectors.
Lower Lifecycle Costs
Further costs can be saved due to the reduced load on the chiller – particularly the compressors and fans – as they are not worked as hard, or at all in some cases. As such, maintenance costs can be lower over the lifetime of the system.
From a health and safety point of view, unlike cooling towers, free cooling systems pose no risk of legionella and therefore do not require additional water treatment costs beyond the norm to mitigate the risk of an outbreak.
