Alfa Laval is set to launch six new products covering different sections of the cooling market at Chillventa 2016 which will be held in Germany next month.
These include a single discharge industrial air cooler, the Alfa Laval Arctigo ID and a dual discharge industrial air cooler, the Alfa Laval Arctigo IS. They can be used with HFC refrigerants, ammonia, brine, and CO2.
They are designed to keep fresh and frozen goods refrigerated from +20 to -35°C for the double discharge system, with either high or low humidity content and +10 to -40 °C for the single discharge system.
The company will also launch its Arctigo LSV air coolers are heavy-duty industrial air coolers specifically designed for cooling data centres. The LSV uses water as the refrigerant in combination with a low-speed ventilation system that delivers the lowest PUE (the ratio of the total amount of energy used by a computer data centre facility to the energy delivered to computing equipment).
There will also be the Abatigo, which is an adiabatic liquid cooler that provides water at the right temperature to cool the servers, as well as the AQ4 heat exchanger, designed for use in combination with the LSV in the data centre.
There will also be products specifically for ammonia applications.
For example, the Alfa Nova 200 (a fusion-bonded plate heat exchanger), the Alfa Laval Optigo CCB (a commercial air cooler), and the Alfa Laval TK20 with a U-turn semi-welded plate (a heat exchanger with liquid separator) have all been developed especially for use in ammonia applications.
The Alfa Nova 200 has been tested on ammonia systems to ensure that it stands up against ammonia’s corrosiveness.
It is also designed for different pressure levels, making it particularly suited to low-charge ammonia applications.
Chillventa 2016, which will be held in Nuremberg from October 11-13, 2016, is set to be the biggest ever.
Organisers said the event will be bigger than 2014 which had 984 exhibitors and more than 30,000 visitors from 110 countries. The show will once again be preceded by a major international conference, the Chillventa Congress on October 10.
The focus at this year's congress will be on current climate targets, refrigerant choice, energy efficiency, innovation in heat transfer, new technology for refrigeration and air conditioning.
There will also be special presentations on data centre cooling, heat pumps for industrial and commercial applications, ventilation systems and energy audits.
An event spokesperson said the mood in the industry is upbeat and this is reflected in the high number of exhibitors.
“We are expecting around 1,000 exhibitors and once again more than 30,000 visitors,” the spokesperson said.
This year Chillventa is adding new halls and reorganising the layout to ensure all sections of the industry are properly grouped together.