Coolmation has supplied a cooling
system for new engine test cells at JCB
Power Systems’ plant in Derbyshire.

Test cells require very accurately
controlled parameters to perform the
development work required to meet
future emissions legislation. Since each
cell requires cooling in two areas at
different temperatures, Coolmation’s
brief was to design a system which
could be installed in two phase,
combining within each phase, air
blast cooling and water chilling.

Coolmation’s initial cooling system
incorporated two adiabatic coolers,
one 440kW and one 800kW for the
general engine cooling and a
180kWRhoss TCAEY BT air cooled
chiller for the combustion air cooling.

Rhoss TCAEY BT 4230 air cooled
chillers were selected because the full
load will eventually be spread across
eight scroll compressors, four in each
chiller, which will enhance load
matching and energy consumption.

Each of the TCAEY chillers has
Rhoss’s predictive control system,
Adaptive Function Plus, which can
reduce the energy consumption of
the chillers by as much as 18%.