Thermal Care is celebrating its 50th anniversary designing and manufacturing process cooling technology.

Not many Americans like warm beer — except, of course, process cooling engineers who work for breweries. They know that maintaining elevated temperatures within a metal tank in the brewhouse is critical throughout much of the fermentation process.

Process cooling is the function of removing heat in order to control or maintain appropriate temperature levels. Almost every manufacturing process produces a certain amount of excess heat due to friction or process heating.

As water resources become increasingly stressed by drought and intensifying demand from competing uses, industries that use significant quantities of water will face greater pressure to adopt water-efficiency strategies that can decrease fresh-water withdrawals.

Used after process heating operations, temporary cooling solutions such as cooling towers, chillers and air conditioners provide significant benefits. They allow petrochemical and refining companies to avoid project delays and improve their balance sheet by avoiding high cost capital expenditure (CAPEX) commitments on short- to mid-term duration needs.

Kenics heat exchanger is used in the melt cooling area for underwater pelletizing systems.

A manufacturer of adiabatic process cooling systems will soon complete construction of a 97,000 ft² manufacturing facility in Bangkok.

Chillers are used for many types of applications, and one size or style of chiller does not fit all applications.

When it comes to industrial process heating and cooling systems, a number of plants are running with systems that rely on a fixed-speed centrifugal pump to circulate the medium and a control valve to throttle the flow to a required rate.