This foam extrusion and thermoforming operation was preparing for an expected expansion. Their existing system at the time was a water cooled system that shared the load between extruders and thermoformers.

The water tower was out of capacity. Adding another tower to simply cool a new chiller was an option, but would take a lot of space, and require a fair amount of additional piping.

Advantage Engineering proposed that the expansion chiller be configured as an air cooled unit. This greatly simplified the installation, requiring water piping for the process only. Cooling for the chiller would be achieved with a remote condenser, placed outside so that the heat would be released outside. The only additional piping required would be refrigerant lines from the chiller to the condenser.

The chiller was configured with dual zones, so that if there were a problem with the chiller, at least one zone would always be operational so the plant would not be shut down. The condenser was sized to account for a higher than typical altitude at this location, and to compensate for the higher than typical summer temperatures at this location.