Comfort for students

Students using the library at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow are keeping their cool thanks to an air conditioning system from Star Refrigeration. Star had previously supplied an Indigochiller refrigeration plant for cooling in another building on the Glasgow campus and the university was impressed by its build quality and performance. The university's library had an air conditioning plant operating on R22, a refrigerant currently being phased out. Engineered to have minimal effect on the global environment, Star's Indigochiller has a robust design that aims to eliminate refrigerant leakage and to offer over 20 years service.

Star installed two Indigochillers on the roof of the Curran Building, each with a 750kW cooling capacity.

The low charge, high performance Indigochiller features a lowmaintenance Turbocor compressor.

Oil-free, it operates on electromagnetic bearings and uses synthetic refrigerant R134a.

The chiller is said to use only 60% of the energy required by a standard chiller operating on typical load and ambient profiles.