Explore VTech insights on HVAC/R manufacturing, refrigerant technology, process equipment, and industrial applications.
Refrigerant supply systems for HVAC/R OEMs: equipment, design, and what actually matters
Having refrigerant on site does not guarantee a reliable supply at the charging station. The real engineering problem lives in the gap between “we have refrigerant in the building” and “we have usable liquid refrigerant at the charging point, right now, at the pressure and flow rate the process requires.”
Multi-Refrigerant Charging for Data Center Chillers
Highly engineered HVAC systems like large data-center chillers may utilize multiple refrigerants to achieve optimum system performance. That single reality reshapes what OEMs need from their charging equipment. A standard evacuation-and-fill cycle handles one refrigerant, one recipe, one workflow. Multi-refrigerant charging demands something broader: the ability to balance speed, accuracy,
Refrigerant recovery and recycling for data center chillers
A chiller fails its factory performance test. The unit is fully charged, the test bay is occupied, and production has a schedule to keep. Before anyone can open a valve, pull a compressor, or swap a component, hundreds of pounds of refrigerant need to go somewhere. That “somewhere” and what