Page 44 - Climate Control Magazine September 2018

Chiller Feature
Built and customized for success
The company set up its Opera- tions, Service & Training Centre and a comprehensive stock of spare parts and chillers in Melbourne.
Geoclima sales manager, Ashley Morgan, said a lot has happened since the company came to Australia
four years ago.
“Since then we have installed a cou-
ple of hundred chillers and customized systems, developed our service and sup- port network and built an impressive portfolio of loyal customers,” Morgan said. “The service response and its high stand- ard comes from the fact that each Geo chiller has a remote access capability and regularly uploads its operational data into our www re- pository, which our customers find very useful, especially when it comes to diagnostics of the
whole chiller plant.
“This stored information stretches far beyond
chiller supply limits, enabling our customers to make assessments of their towers, AHUs, water loops, power quality and many other parameters prior to booking a service visit.”
In most cases, Morgan said service calls can be avoided thanks to Geoclima’s sophisticated control algorithms and remote access.
“This mobile communications link is invalu- able for both fine tuning and energy optimisa- tion,” he added.
Geoclima products cover a very wide range of equipment, from pharmaceutical grade AH Units, through to chillers powered by scroll, VFD-equipped screw and oil-free compressors.
“We are very proud to be one of the Turbo- cor-authorised service and training providers in Australia and to serve in low temperature glycol specifications including ice rinks, mis-
CENTRAL TO GEOCLIMA’S SUCCESS STORY IN AUSTRALIA IS ENERGY EFFICIENCY.
IN FACT WITHIN a year of setting up shop the company undertook the retrofit of a water cooled 600kw chiller at the Holiday Inn Hotel in Parramatta, west of Sydney.
The before and after energy consumption fig- ures tell an impressive story, according to the hotel’s chief engineer, Steve Mitchell.
He said the Geoclima TMH2A550 model replaced the original chillers with oil-lubri- cated compressors.
“From commissioning right through to today we have seen average daily savings to the tune of 2000 kW-hr,” Mitchell said.
“The chiller is well-tuned and performs some of the traditional functionality of BMS, manag- ing our pump and providing the details of the plant performance.”
Efficiency and sustainability has always been a part of the Geoclima story but the recent in- troduction of innovative refrigerants has added even more value and extended the company’s product range.
The innovation comes from the use of refrig- erants with very low GWP, such as HFO-1234ze and R290.
In early 2014, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change stated that HFO-1234ze has a GWP<1, that makes it lower than CO2. Moreover it is non-flammable, which makes it safe to use.
R290 is a natural gas and has a very low im- pact on environment, with GWP=3 and ODP=0. In addition to that, it has excellent thermody- namic properties, which lead to high energy ef- ficiency, and is suitable for both positive and negative temperature applications.
Italian chiller manufacturer, Geoclima, first established its presence in Australia in 2014.
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Geoclima has built an impressive portfolio of loyal customers including Holiday Inn, Parramatta.