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…

Plastics cooling

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…

Smart-Family-of-Cooling-Products

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…

Why HVAC Systems need to be Explosion Proof

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…

Explosion-proof Chiller

A deeper look into Explosion-proof Chillers

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…