The water cooled chillers shown below use an evaporator to remove heat from the process and then use a water cooled condenser to remove the heat from the evaporator. Water conducts heat better than air, making water cooled condensers smaller, cheaper and able to consume less energy per horsepower than air cooled condensers.
Usage Examples
Water cooled condensers require an adequate supply of freshwater, and are used in power plants to condense exhaust steam from turbines, in refrigeration plants to condense refrigeration vapors such as ammonia or fluorinated hydrocarbons, and in the petroleum and chemical industries to condense a variety of chemical vapors.
