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Calculating Process Chiller Loads

Many times we will have a customer call in and request a chiller quote from us. When we ask the customer what size chiller he or she needs, the answer is occasionally, “I think a 10 ton chiller?” (We use “10 ton” as an example only). The customer has an idea of what size unit they are replacing but…

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Rental Cooling Equipment Additions

Our rental customers have long been asking us to expand our product lines beyond our chiller and air handler products. This year, we made the investment in time and resources to develop our new WT Rental Ready Tank Package as well as our digital flow meter. We will delve into this later in the post.…

Evaporative Cooling Tower

Free Cooling System – Cooling Tower Option

A couple of weeks ago, we highlighted a dry cooler based Free Cooling System. While that system has its advantages, another option is a system centered around an evaporative cooling tower. As we discussed in our previous post, dry cooling systems provide a very beneficial means of cooling your process in the cool winter months. In…

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Cooling a Plastics Process

There are a variety of plastics processing methods. Whether it’s injection molding (the most common), extrusion, blow molding, lamination, or other types, these processes make a multitude of items we use in our everyday lives. For simplicity, we will only concentrate on one of these methods today. Because injection molding is the most common process, we will discuss…

Dry Fluid Cooler

Free Cooling System- Can it benefit your plant?

Refrigeration Chillers continue to become more and more efficient. However, it is truly difficult to compete with something as simple as a basic dry cooler (air over heat exchanger) when it comes to energy consumption. In cooler climates where the ambient temperatures drop below freezing during the winter months, dry coolers can provide a very…

Asus Tablet Giveaway!

Smart Family is happy to announce that we are having an Asus MeMo 7 Tablet giveaway. The winner will be announced at the end of this month. See below for the instructions on how to enter.   What do you have to do to win?? (This is so easy!) If you have a Facebook account, you…

Rental Tank

Quick Ship Rental Tanks

SmartHydronics is pleased to announce a new line of quick ship rental ready fluid tanks. We just shipped our shipped our first 500 gallon tank skid and have nine more in production. These tanks feature multiple small threaded fittings as well as 6″ Camlock supply & return connections, a 1″ drain connection pre-piped with a…

Rental Air Handler

Rental Air Handling Units

We have a large group of customers that are in the rental industry. These customers purchase rental ready air conditioning equipment from us and then, in turn, rent them to their customers. Because of the severity of this industry, these units must be nearly bullet-proof. No other piece of refrigeration or HVAC equipment will see a more…

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Importance of Chiller Maintenance

Do you take your car to get the oil changed when that warning light activates on your dashboard? When the postcard reminder comes in the mail telling you it’s time for a dental check-up, do you call and make an appointment? These are just a couple of examples we face in our every day lives that…

Construction of a Condenser Coil

Some of you may have seen our YouTube videos that displayed two different stages of our coil construction. For those of you that missed them, they are shown at the end of this post.   At the inception of this process, we first need to pull the hydrophilic coated aluminum sheet off the roll and…