Heating & Cooling

Customizable Water Temperature Control Systems and Combo Heating and Chilling Systems

Mokon has introduced the Xchange-Therm line with customizable water temperature controls and combination heating and chilling units offering temperature ranges from -20° to 300°F.

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Low-Flow Indicator Has Optional Flow Regulator

Burger & Brown's Smartflow Low Flow indicator monitors critical, restricted cooling paths such as mold cooling lines with bubblers or baffles.

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k show

Machine-Side and Central Chiller Lines, Industry 4.0 Controls to Launch

Frigel will use K 2022 to showcase a number of developments in process cooling, including new and expanded lines of central and machine-side chillers, as well as advanced control platforms.

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Drying

ACS Adds Midwest Regional Sales Manager

Auxiliary equipment supplier names Mike Tuchalski to post.  

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processing tips

Improve The Cooling Performance Of Your Molds

Need to figure out your mold-cooling energy requirements for the various polymers you run? What about sizing cooling circuits so they provide adequate cooling capacity? Learn the tricks of the trade here.

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best practices

Cooling the Feed Throat and Screw: How Much Water Do You Need?

It’s one of the biggest quandaries in extrusion, as there is little or nothing published to give operators some guidance. So let’s try to shed some light on this trial-and-error process.

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TCU with Common Control Offers Smaller Footprint, Ease of Operation

Units sized at 3 hp and under also require 15% less floor space than earlier designs.  

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Cooling Geometry and the Reynolds Calculation

The original Turbulent Flow Rate Calculator worked well with a round circuit diameter, such as a drilled passage, but not as well using hydraulic diameters. Here’s how the problem was fixed.

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Safe and Reliable Cooling Line Coupling

Hasco says its new clean break cooling range of couplers offer one-handed quick-release operation.

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High-Temperature, Low-Flow Indicator for Mold-Cooling Applications

Burger & Brown Engineering has released a new high-temperature low-flow indicator to monitor flow inside critical, restricted cooling paths such as those with bubblers or baffles.

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Process Cooling
Plastics Size Reduction