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Sustainable Chilled Water Systems in Pharmaceutical Plants

By Mike Grennier, Chiller & Cooling Best Practices Magazine

Chiller & Cooling Best Practices Magazine spoke with Tom Pagliuco, Executive Director Global Energy Engineering at AbbVie, Inc. about best practices for optimizing chilled water systems in today’s pharmaceutical operations.

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Food

Show Report: The 2022 IPPE

The 2022 International Production & Processing Expo (IPPE), was held January 25-27, 2022 in Atlanta with more than 500,000 square feet of exhibit space and 1,140-plus exhibitors. Attendee numbers had not been released when this was written. Sponsored by the U.S. Poultry & Egg Association, American Feed Industry Association and the North American Meat Institute, IPPE is the world's largest annual poultry, meat and animal food industry event of its kind.

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Beverage

Pro-Refrigeration Helps California Dairy with CO2 Chillers

With the approaching HFC phasedown, the demand for environmentally friendly cooling systems is driving chiller manufacturers to innovate. Washington-based Pro-Refrigeration, Inc., a leading manufacturer and supplier of chillers for the industrial and beverage processing market, including the dairy, beer and wine industries, recognized an opportunity with CO2 chillers.

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HVAC

Energy Saving and Air Changes

Current ventilation guidelines recommend maintaining ventilation with 100% outdoor air 24/7, or as much as possible if that is not feasible, as an effective way to keep airborne pathogen concentration under control. Obviously, outdoor air needs to be filtered and conditioned to guarantee the indoor temperature and humidity set points; this, in turn, implies a higher HVAC-related primary energy consumption, because more outdoor air needs to be conditioned compared to the pre-COVID-19 situation, when the flow of outdoor air was typically 20% of the total supply air entering the space.

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Welding

Chiller and Temperature Control for Laser Technology at FABTECH 2019

FABTECH is North America’s largest metal forming, fabricating, welding and finishing event. Held at McCormick Place in Chicago, Illinois, FABTECH 2019 closed with a record total of 48,278 attendees from 95 countries. Three massive exhibit halls featuring more than 1,700 exhibitors with more than 500 new products being revealed allowed attendees to see the emerging trends and technologies influencing the future of manufacturing. Attendees also had access to more than 175 educational sessions with 15 technology tracks, expert-led presentations, FABx Tech Talks in the style of TED Talks, even a head-to-head welding tournament. Many booths featured hands-on displays and live product demonstrations.

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Metalworking

Chiller and Temperature Control for Laser Technology at FABTECH 2019

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Medical

Oil-Free Magnetic Bearing Chiller Compressors Propel Energy Savings at the University of Cincinnati

Like many universities across America, The University of Cincinnati had a major challenge having to operate aging central utility plants with older technology, reduced efficiencies and capacities, with chilled water equipment at the end of its service life. Even so, UC needed to maintain plant operations under diverse load conditions, including critical hospital utility demands that are currently expanding and in daily periods subject to energy tariff.

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Manufacturing

Efficiency and Redundancy: Cooling System Pillars at Röchling Automotive

Röchling required a new comprehensive cooling system for their facility. The forward thinking management elected to pursue a system that was not only reliable and cost effective, but would incorporate industry leading technology for efficiency and built-in designs for redundancy. Their facility required both a cooling tower system and a chiller system. Below are the design features of each of these Thermal Care systems, and the benefits of some of the unique features are explained.

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Plastics and Rubber

Process Cooling System Helps rPlanet Earth “Close the Loop” on Recycling Post-consumer Plastics

rPlanet Earth is a rarity in the plastics recycling and manufacturing industry. After all, its operation in Vernon, California, is the world’s only vertically integrated facility able to convert polyethylene terephthalate (PET) packaging waste into recycled PET (rPET) packaging for food and beverage industries. Yet, rPlanet Earth is much like any other plastics company in one key aspect: it must maintain production efficiencies to meet growing demand for its high-quality products.

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