It is necessary to create an atmosphere that is comfortable and conducive to a healthy working environment. The fact remains though that most office buildings are too huge, which is precisely the reason the demand for air conditioning units continues to increase. Rather than compensating with the sheer volume of air conditioning units to make…
The modern HVAC market is flooded with units that brag about all kinds of bells and whistles that their manufacturers say add to the efficiency and effectiveness of the product. But there’s one aspect that’s confused many clients through the years and that’s explosion proofing. What does it mean when manufacturers say that a unit…
Rental Cooling has been in high demand this year. Smart Family has added several new unit sizes as well as different product lines to our rental offering. Thanks to this change and the hard efforts of our sales staff, our rental equipment has been selling as fast as we can manufacture it. However, none of…
Smart Family understands that space is a premium. With this in mind, we have designed our SMT-AHU Rental Ready Air handling units to be fully stackable. This greatly reduces the space required for storage. Our customers requested this and we listened. We redesigned our frame and added plates to accommodate this feature. We…
SmartFreeze recently shipped three of our STACT5S-eco chillers to be used in an oil cooling application. The process itself is quite interesting. The oil is used as a cutting oil that is cools thread cutting equipment for schedule 40 pipe. While the thread cutter is cutting the threads into the pipe, the friction of the process generates heat. The…
One of our customer’s had some older Dunham Bush water cooled chillers that were cooling their process. (One Dunham Bush model PWC005S and one WC005AQ). They wanted to upgrade to newer equipment. Based on the old design data, our STWC60S water cooled scroll chiller was a good fit. The new unit featured a Copeland…
Our STWC water cooled chiller with semi-hermetic reciprocating compressor was recently used for a specialty plastics application. This particular manufacturer makes a variety of protection sleeves for drill pipe and drill collars. This new water cooled chiller will be cooling the mold(s) on their molding machine. This particular chiller is a single circuit unit with…
The majority of equipment that Smart Family manufactures are used in industrial process cooling applications. Simply put, we build industrial cooling equipment so it makes sense that our customers would be in industrial related fields. This particular case study looks more closely at a multi-chiller job we completely recently for a school district. The first…
2014-01-29 Because Smart Family does a lot of custom projects, we run into many specialty applications. This particular project was an interesting one. It involved cooling a styrene process in a petrochemical plant. As you may know, styrene is a difficult fluid to handle. It is a highly combustible fluid that is also toxic to…
SmartFreeze does a lot of work in the petrochemical industry. Because of the nature of these applications, standard electrical classifications, such as Nema 3R or Nema 4, will not always suffice.There are some more hazardous areas which fall into a classified or explosion-proof designation. For these specialty applications, a standard “off-the-shelf” unit will not be…
SmartFreeze is happy to introduce our new SmartAdvance3 controller for our scroll chiller products. This new controller features a user friendly microprocessor design with Color Touch Screen. For more information on our portable chillers and our new SmartAdvance3 controller, please contact your local Smart Cooling Sales Representative. Controller Features: Real-time superheat & sub-cooling readings Real-time Chiller…
Smart Family is a leader in building the most reliable and robust #rentalready cooling equipment. The toughest thing for Rental Companies is running short on equipment in the middle of busy season (May through August). With this in mind, Smart Family started 40 and 80 ton rental ready #PackageAC units. Now when our customers…