Aggreko Adds 230-ton Air-Cooled Variable-Speed Chiller to Fleet
Power generation, HVAC and oil-free air specialty rental company, Aggreko plc, has introduced a new 230-ton air-cooled screw chiller into its fleet. Powered by variable-speed technology, the units deliver best-in-class energy efficiency and increased fuel savings, and offer a wider range of process cooling capacity from 5°F to 70°F.
Designed in partnership with Johnson Controls, the chiller supports multiple applications across many industries. To name a few: worker comfort cooling, and commercial and process applications where cooling plays a vital role to maintain operational output such as data center temperature control and food and beverage product development.
“Aggreko is proud to introduce our new line of air-cooled screw chillers giving customers another option to choose from when faced with incremental cooling capacity needs,” said Bill Carrick, managing director of Temperature Control Services for Aggreko. “The new line perfectly complements our existing air-cooled chiller fleet, and allows Aggreko to provide another scalable, cost-effective solution to meet customer demand.”
Variable-speed technology allows the chiller unit to operate at several different levels, including a programmable operating setting, meaning that it can operate at full capacity during production hours and then be set to a lower level during off hours, resulting in lower fuel costs.
The chiller equipment also offers customers the benefit of leveraging Aggreko’s Remote Monitoring (ARM) services. ARM features Aggreko’s 24/7 Remote Operations Center, a unique response service staffed by expert technicians that diagnose problems, remotely fix issues and proactively prevent failures when possible. ARM’s services actively supplement customers’ operations teams, delivering the added assurance that their facilities, plants and events will continue to run smoothly, saving them unanticipated downtime and capital expenditure costs.
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Michael Roth has covered the equipment rental industry full time for RER since 1989 and has served as the magazine’s editor in chief since 1994. He has nearly 30 years experience as a professional journalist. Roth has visited hundreds of rental centers and industry manufacturers, written hundreds of feature stories for RER and thousands of news stories for the magazine and its electronic newsletter RER Reports. Roth has interviewed leading executives for most of the industry’s largest rental companies and manufacturers as well as hundreds of smaller independent companies. He has visited with and reported on rental companies and manufacturers in Europe, Central America and Asia as well as Mexico, Canada and the United States. Roth was co-founder of RER Reports, the industry’s first weekly newsletter, which began as a fax newsletter in 1996, and later became an online newsletter. Roth has spoken at conventions sponsored by the American Rental Association, Associated Equipment Distributors, California Rental Association and other industry events and has spoken before industry groups in several countries. He lives and works in Los Angeles when he’s not traveling to cover industry events.