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What is a Thermolator®?
A “Thermolator” refers to a Thermolator® temperature control unit (TCU). Through the years, Thermolator TCUs have been so reliable and have become so ubiquitous that in the plastics industry that many processors use the brand name, “Thermolator,” and the generic name, TCU, to mean the same thing. Thermolator® is a...
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How to Manually Calculate Chiller Capacity for Your Process
If you don’t like the idea of expert guidelines for estimating process heat loads, or just plain prefer to make your own calculations about the chiller capacity your process needs, the following is definitely for you. "Old school” formulae for calculating process heat load and chiller size Start with material...
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How to Size Your Chiller: The Easy Way
Chillers come in all sizes, from enormous, plant-sized central units that can deliver 500-plus tons of cooling per hour to plug-in portables that provide a single ton of capacity per hour. So, how do you get the one that you need? To size a chiller to meet your requirements, you’ve...
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A Quick Guide to Cooling Towers for Plastics Processing
What is a cooling tower? A cooling tower extracts heat out of process cooling water and pushes it into another medium, usually air, so that the process cooling water is cooled and ready to be recirculated. How do cooling towers work? In plastics processing, cool process water is pumped out...