Energy solutions specialist, Aggreko, has significantly invested in its European fleet of cooling solutions to bring reliable, clean and efficient cooling to the market.
As weather forecasts predict warmer-than-normal temperatures for the continent this summer, companies across Europe will require HVAC solutions to maintain operations on-site while keeping energy consumption to a minimum.
Specifically, Aggreko has grown its fleet of chillers to support data centres with the most efficient short- and long-term solutions to maintain critical operations, assist during emergency scenarios and support with increasing capacity.
Growing its expertise in HVAC, the company is expanding its fleet to make greener cooling provisions both for production processes and cooling applications. Complementing its existing range of industrial HVAC solutions and wider Greener Upgrades portfolio, Aggreko is introducing two new cooling product ranges.
Its new very low-temperature chiller, the VLTC550, uses CO2 (R774) refrigerant with a global warming potential (GWP) equal to one, and provides stable and exceptionally efficient cooling. The containerised unit can achieve 220kW of cooling at -40C in a condensed 10ft footprint.
As companies are under pressure to use low GWP refrigerants, Aggreko can help companies accelerate the transition with this new fleet. To further support the transition to more environmentally friendly refrigerants, the company is switching all screw chillers in its fleet to R513A, significantly reducing the GWP of Aggreko’s fleet of industrial chillers by almost 60%.
For larger scale cooling requirements, Aggreko has also introduced a new range of water-cooled chillers which delivers 1.5MW of cooling and uses R513A refrigerant. Designed to meet the needs of data centres, manufacturing, petrochemicals, food and beverage, and mining sectors, the modular and scalable water-cooling solution provides advanced control capabilities to ensure optimal performance and efficiency.
Further enhancing the environmental credentials of its cooling solutions, Aggreko has also recently invested significantly in its portfolio of Greener Upgrades to efficiently and sustainably power the chillers. This includes incorporating Stage V generators, greener fuels and Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) to enhance efficiency and reduce fuel use and carbon footprint.
By investing in its Greener Upgrades, Aggreko is aiming to make efficient and clean technologies more accessible to customers, in addition to the skills and expertise required to correctly implement them – a fundamental part of the company’s sustainability framework, Energising Change. By providing turnkey cooling solutions, Aggreko can ensure that customers across Europe can prioritise resilience and uptime on-site while keeping operational costs under control and emissions to a minimum.
