CONSULTANT/ENGINEER
REFRIGERATION
The right refrigeration solution
Regardless of whether you want to bring a server room to a specific temperature or to cool food, drinks, or medicines, we will work with you to find an outstanding solution for your refrigeration system’s pipework. Our aquatherm blue pipe, made of corrosion-resistant and diffusion-proof polypropylene, is ideal for the transport of cooling media in closed systems and is therefore particularly well-suited for a wide variety of refrigeration applications. The pre-insulated version for underground installation can transport cooling water over longer distances with little or no temperature change. Thanks to aquatherm prefabrication, manifolds and special components can be shipped ready for installation anywhere in the world.
Overview Refrigeration
| Kältetechnik | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Industriekälte | Komfortkälte | Branche | ||||
| Freie Kühlung, Kühltürme | Kompressionskältemaschinen | Kompressionskältemaschinen | Arten der Kühlung | |||
| > 20 °C | -40 °C bis +10 °C | 6 °C bis 20 °C | Temperaturbereich | |||
| Offene und geschlossene, auch chemikalienbelastete Wasserkreisläufe | Kälteträgerkreisläufe (alle bekannten Wasser-Glykol-Gemische, Wasser-Alkohol-Gemische, Salzlaugen) Rückkühlkreisläufe der Kondensatorkühlung und der Ölkühlung (Wasser-Glykol-Gemische) | Kälteträgerkreisläufe in Klimaanlagen (Wasser) Rückkühlkreisläufe der Kondensatorkühlung (Wasser-Glykol-Gemische) | Kreislaufarten und Kälteträgermittel | |||
Free cooling
Frequent problems with open return cooling circuits:
- corrosion due to strong oxygen enrichment in the cooling water
- corrosion due to chemical additives in the cooling water
Compression refrigeration machines for industrial refrigeration
Frequent problems:
- increasing scaling and incrustation of steel pipes,
- causing increased energy consumption and costs
Compression refrigeration machines for air conditioning
Frequent problems with open return cooling circuits:
- corrosion due to strong oxygen enrichment in the cooling water
- corrosion due to chemical additives in the cooling water
Product benefits
aquatherm blue pipe
- high chemical resistance
- no corrosion
- virtually leak-free over the entire life cycle as a fully heat-fused system
- no dissolution of sealing rings or splices
- high volume flows due to dimensions up to DN 500
- low system pressures (10 bar) allow for fibre-reinforced polypropylene pipes
- lower thermal expansion than conventional plastics (only 0.035 mm/mK)
- more durable than steel and less expensive than stainless steel
- environmentally friendly and recyclable
- more favourable CO2 balance in production than steel or stainless steel
Product benefits
aquatherm blue pipe TI
- low linear expansion
- high chemical resistance
- corrosion resistant
- easy processing
- no dissolution of sealing rings or splices
- high impact strength
- low weight
- high insulation properties
- more durable than steel and less expensive than stainless steel
- lower carbon footprint in production than steel or stainless steel
- deliverable up to DN 300
PROCESSING
aquatherm pipes and fittings are connected by heat fusion, which creates a homogeneous, cohesive unit with no leak paths. Heat fusion connections are stronger than the pipe itself, providing lasting safety at these critical points of a piping system. A properly executed aquatherm fusion creates a permanent leakproof connection. Depending on the dimensions of the pipe, socket fusion, butt fusion or electrofusion is used.
