Water Cooled Chiller System Diagram

A refrigeration circuit and a fluid circuit.

Water cooled chiller system diagram.

An air cooled condenser uses ambient air to cool and condense the hot refrigerant gas back down to a liquid. They work almost the same way as air cooled chillers. You can learn about this system and watch the video tutorial by clicking here. Two circuits industrial water or glycol chiller systems contain two main circuits.

Air cooled chiller and water cooled chiller. In a water cooled condenser water from a cooling tower cools and condenses the refrigerant. Air cooled chillers will use fans to blow cool ambient air over their condenser to remove heat from the system this type does not use a cooling tower. It can be located inside the chiller or can be remotely located outside but ultimately it rejects the heat from the chiller to the air.

Chilled water schematic examples different chiller representations. The two in the top right and the one in the bottom right are all air cooled chillers and the rest are water cooled. We ll first start with the chiller. I ll show you some examples of how chillers are illustrated in schematics as it really varies.

For the remainder of this article we will focus on water cooled. Water cooled chillers are almost always located inside of a building. The difference is that they remove heat from chilled water by exhausting the heat to a second isolated water line called the condenser water line.