Air Cooled Industrial Chillers for Food Manufacturers by Summit Matsu Chilling Systems

• Air cooled industrial chillers can be used to control temperatures during the composting process or can be used to control growing room temperatures very accurately
• Cooling systems with chilled water have the benefit of very accurate close control and the ease of piping chilled water to anywhere in the plant
• Chillers from Summit Matsu Chilling Systems use screw compressors from Refcomp which can result in substantial power savings

Small Goods

• Medium temperature industrial water chillers are used for batch cooling in either jacketed tanks or with cooling tunnels or fan coil units
• Low temperature industrial glycol chillers are used to cool vacuum tumblers used in the curing process for ham, bacon, and similar products
• SMCS manufactures glycol chillers at both medium temperature and low temperatures

Confectionery and Chocolate

• Medium temperature industrial chillers are used for applications like batch cooling for jacketed tanks and for cooling specialist food machinery like cocoa grinders
• Low temperature industrial glycol chillers are used for cooling extrusion lines like liquorice production facilities

Bakeries

• Chilled water from a water chiller is used instead of ambient temperature water in the dough mixing process
• Because of the significant heat generated in the mixing process, the use of a water chiller allows dough to be mixed for longer before it reaches a critical heat
• The increased mixing time means a higher quality product can be produced for any given grade of flour, allowing customers to improve product quality
• There is a SMCS water chiller in hundreds of bakeries all over Australia
• These small units are pre-commissioned allowing the water chiller operator to just plug in, fit water pipes, and turn on

Wineries

• Chilled water is used by wineries in two areas so chillers need a flexible design.  When grapes are first picked they need to be rapidly cooled so that the fermentation process can be managed
• Grapes enter large jacketed tanks from the harvest at 20-30ºC and need to be cooled to close to 0ºC quickly
• SMCS has developed a process water chiller specifically for this purpose
• A water chiller can also be used in regulating temperatures during fermentation
• Wine is fermented in jacketed tanks with the chilled water glycol system providing adequate heat dissipation to regulate the temperatures at optimum levels

Vegetable Processing and Packaging

• Chilled water can be used to maintain temperatures during washing and packaging leading to a higher quality finished product
• The chilled water can then be filtered and cooled though the chiller for use in the next batch