Advantage will exhibit at a limited number of trade shows in 2013. Come see the latest in industrial heat transfer equipment and systems at these trade shows…
+ Washington Association of Wine Grape Growers,, February 5-8 Toyota Ctr Kennewick WA
+ Plastec West, February 12-14, Anaheim Convention Center, Anaheim CA
+ Plastimagen, March 12-15, Centro Banamex, Mexico City Mexico
+ Plast-Ex, May 14-16, Toronto, Ontario
New XK Monitor Introduced by Advantage Electronics
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Advantage Electronics, http://www.advantageelectronics.com, a company affiliated with Advantage Engineering recently introduced its XK Monitor system which allows monitoring of up to 12 Advantage Sentra temperature control units from 1 convenient location.
The XK Monitor system is particularly useful when multiple temperature control units are located away from the operator. Install the XK Monitor and all the information is available at one convenient panel.
Advantage Electronic XK Monitor System FYI-297.
Contact Advantage Electronics at 317-888-1946 for more information.
Follow this link for more information
http://www.advantageengineering.com/fyi/297/advantageFYI297.php?PG=FE
Boost Your Air-cooled Chiller Performance in Hot Weather with Adiabatic Pre-cooling System
Has the recent hot weather taxed the performance of your air-cooled chiller? Operating efficiency of an air-cooled chiller drops off quickly when temperatures soar above 95°F and can even cause the unit to shut down if it gets too hot. What can you do to regain chiller efficiency?
Advantage Model M1D-10A, 10-ton portable air-cooled chiller shown with adiabatic pre-cooling system to provide full capacity during hot weather.
Advantage now offers an engineered packaged adiabatic pre-cooling system for its portable chillers that is easily retrofitted and will drop the incoming air temperature at the condenser by 10-15°F regaining previously lost capacity..
The system is quite simple, install the stainless steel frame work on the chiller, insert the evaporative media, fill the system with water and turn on the recirculating pump. The pump takes water from the integral storage basin, and distributes it over the wetted media. Hot air moving across the wetted media evaporates some of the water from the wetted media dropping the air temperature before it enters the chiller condenser coil providing vastly improved performance. Contact your Advantage representative for more information.
Adiabatic pre-coolig system showing wetted media removed.
Injection Molder Selects Customized Bi-Temp Chiller
While many injection molders use beside the press temperature control units fed by a centralized cooling system to provide precise temperature fluid to control the mold cooling process, Advantage recently completed a project using a more unconventional approach. The molder, making packaging products, elected to purchase customized self contained chiller & temperature control units in a single package. Advantage has been making its Bi-Temp Chillers since the early 1980′s primarily to support urethane process applications but have made many units for injection molders as well.
Typical circuit schematic of Bi-Temp chiller.
The Bi-Temp chiller is a single packaged unit containing a chiller and mold temperature control unit. The chiller supplies a cool water source for cooling the temperature control unit and also cool water for the molding machine feed throat and often to the machine hydraulic system or an auxiliary hydraulic unit often used with electric molding machines. The integral temperature control unit provides water for mold cooling at a temperature range from about 10 degrees above the chiller temperature to 250 degrees Fahrenheit.
The Bi-Temp chiller is very compact and requires a single power drop easing installation and saving valuable floor space. Since the unit was purpose built, the molder was able to have all the features they wanted incorporated into the unit including a custom alarm indicator, gauges indicating when the unit is out of spec, and a signal from the unit that tells the molding machine that the temperature is out of spec. This signal pauses the molding machine and signals the operator to take a look prior to making a significant amount of bad parts.
Advantage BI-1.5AS-920 Bi-Temp unit featuring a chiller and temperature control unit in a single compact package.
Advantage makes Bi-Temp units with capacities from 1.5 to 40 tons and with heating capabilities up to 48 kW. For those molders that need two zones of temperature control Advantage also makes Tri-Temp chillers that include an integral chiller and two tempered water zones.
Plastic Processor Uses Advantage Trooper to Keep Making Parts When Mold Starts to Leak
Advantage recently provided a TR-300 Negative Pressure unit http://www.advantageengineering.com/pdf/literature/advantageNegativePress.pdf to an injection molder whose mold had developed a leak from the cooling water line into one molding cavity in a four cavity mold. The part being molded was a critical part with production goals already running behind schedule leaving no time to remove the mold and have it repaired. The user contacted an Advantage application specialist who recommended the TR-300 unit (14 gpm), an order was placed and in less than 5 days the unit was on the users dock. The mold had eight 3/8″ water lines in & out. The TR-300 was connected to one 3/8″ line that was leaking, the unit vacuum was adjusted to eliminate the leak and the fourth cavity was back in production. The 25% increase in production that was acheived provided a quick payback for purchasing the unit which cost about $4,700. The user intends to have the mold repaired soon and keep the TR-300 unit for future emergencies.
Advantage Trooper and Vac-U-Temp negative pressure units eliminate lost production caused by leaking molds.
Plastic Processing Company Recieves Energy Rebate for Installing New Energy Efficient Process Water Cooling System
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Advantage was recently challenged to provide a new energy efficient process cooling system for a plastics company located in Minnesota. The company’s existing cooling system was both under capacity and aging and was becoming unreliable. Upon evaluating the process … Continue reading
