Refrigeration for a renowned research facility

Research facilities, like many other areas of application, depend on reliable process cooling and air conditioning for their buildings, systems and projects – whether on a private campus in the pharmaceutical and chemical industry or at a university. At the same time, most internal sustainability guidelines require infrastructure facilities to be operated in an energy-efficient manner, using renewable energies. Many research complexes therefore operate their own cooling network, which flexibly supplies the various facilities and projects with cooling. However, a sustainable and safe concept for refrigeration provides more than ‘just’ cooling. In fact, a modern chiller can also process the (waste) heat so that it can be used in the heating network for the various buildings on the campus.

High demands on efficient and flexible power control

One example of such a sustainable and safe refrigeration solution was also tested by a globally networked research institution in German-speaking Switzerland after its existing cooling generators had reached the end of their service life. To replace the process chiller for the cooling network, the infrastructure managers initially looked for a supplier who could provide a cost-effective, outdoor standard cooling generator. In addition to the standard solution, CTA also proposed a contractor variant with a customised, tailor-made refrigeration solution. This energy-optimised chiller enables annual energy savings of up to 25 per cent and optimally meets the needs of the research institution identified by the CTA experts.

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