ENGIE Refrigeration has redesigned its water-cooled QUANTUM Water series.
It is currently the most efficient water-cooled chiller on the market, according to ENGIE.
The QUANTUM Water is ideal for use in a variety of industries: data centres, the pharmaceutical and chemical industry, automotive manufacturers and suppliers, and even building services.
As a result of the redesign, ENGIE now offers the water-cooled series in a total of 47 versions with a performance range from 200 kilowatts to four megawatts.
ENGIE CEO, Jochen Hornung, said the company has always aimed to offer customers the highest-quality, most efficient and most sustainable chillers.
“With the QUANTUM Water series we have once again achieved this goal; our models currently represent the most efficient water cooled chiller series in the world,” he said.
“QUANTUM Water impresses with ultramodern inner tube technology. Thanks to its sophisticated concept and special design, the revised QUANTUM Water meets the highest economic and ecological requirements for refrigeration supply.
To achieve this, the team at ENGIE Refrigeration relied on new components and an innovative control concept. They also deployed ultramodern inner tube technology, which ensures an excellent heat transfer performance and an especially high level of efficiency with a low input of materials.”
In addition, Hornung said the QUANTUM Water series is currently the only model series on the market with an open-flash economizer integrated as standard in all 47 versions, which also helps improve performance and efficiency.
He said QUANTUM Water offers groundbreaking digital features. With the new ‘smart control’, a smart user interface (web-based visualisation) replaces the touch panel that was previously integrated in a fixed position on the machine, allowing the chiller to be controlled using a tablet and a Wi-Fi connection, for example.
Customers can now choose between four different refrigerants – R-515B, R-134a, R-513A and R-1234ze – and all machines require less refrigerant than the predecessor series.
For the first time, the QUANTUM Water can be ordered with special housing to provide maximum safety in the unlikely event of an accident occurring in a machine operated with the A2L refrigerant R-1234ze.
The machines also align with ENGIE’s mission of “zero carbon transition as a service”.
Hornung said QUANTUM Power will remain available as a customer-specific solution for even higher performance ranges up to 8.5 megawatts. As its next step, ENGIE Refrigeration will also overhaul its SPECTRUM chillers and heat pumps.