Electronics

Switching cabinets are omnipresent in the manufacturing sector and in industry, and the rapid spread of digital process monitoring and demand-optimised process control (Industry 4.0) is causing an upsurge in power electronics. The ever-growing number of switch cabinets and increase in removing waste heat from power electronics is also resulting in greater demand for cooling. Industry has many examples of production halls where the exhaust heat from cooling machines is rejected directly into the hall which results in:
- Large number of chillers with higher energy consumption causing high energy costs
- Considerable heat load in the hall resulting in high summer workplace temperatures
- Free cooling is not possible
- Use of refrigerants regulated by the F-Gas Regulation
- Higher risk of failure compared to a pure water/air heat exchanger