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Meet Our Most Recommended Medical Chillers

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As we covered in a previous post on the importance of refrigeration for medical equipment, chillers help enhance the performance and uptime of these essential machines for better patient care and higher profitability. Medical chillers are different than comfort chillers that cannot keep up with your sophisticated and critical medical equipment. They’re uniquely designed to deliver reliable industrial-grade process cooling year-round and use capacity modulation to maintain tight temperature control of +/-1°F. But which medical chiller is best for you? 

In this post, we’ll explore our most recommended medical chillers for MRI, CT, and blood testing scanners and explain what you need to know when designing a chiller for your unique medical application. 

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How to Maximize MRI Chiller Uptime

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Chiller uptime is essential for MRIs and other imaging machines because it provides consistent, uninterrupted patient care and revenue streams. So, how can you keep your processes going strong? As experts with a proven 99.4% chiller uptime rate, we’ve compiled our top five essential tips for maximizing your medical chiller’s uptime.

Our medical chiller uptime-boosting tips include:

  1. Install a high-performance industrial-grade system
  2. Ensure the chiller is manufactured to reduce refrigerant leaks
  3. Follow routine maintenance protocols
  4. Consider city water changeover panels
  5. Optimize your controls

Are you ready to maximize your medical chiller’s uptime rate? Continue reading to learn more about these helpful hints.

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Practical Guide to Selecting the Right Medical Chiller

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Choosing the right medical chiller can often make the difference between uptime and downtime – and even profitability and loss. However, some companies overlook critical factors when weighing their decision, such as buying based solely on nominal capacity or tonnage, opting for a comfort chiller, or overpaying for unnecessary features.

This article will break down everything you need to know about selecting the best system for your application and budget to help keep your imaging equipment going strong when it matters most. We’ll break down our top medical chiller buying tips, outline ten essential buying factors, and finish with the must-have features to look for when purchasing a system.

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What is the Difference Between a Medical Chiller and a Comfort Chiller?

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If you’re researching a process chiller for your MRI, CT, or other imaging equipment, you may be weighing the pros and cons of investing in a medical chiller over a comfort chiller to keep your processes cool. After all, refrigeration plays a pivotal role in the function and performance of medical equipment.

This article will compare the differences between these chillers to reveal which is best suited for high-stakes medical applications that require consistent and reliable uptime to maximize patient well-being and facility operations.

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How the Right MRI Chiller System Affects Reliable Uptime

Imagine trying to do a job outdoors in the summer while wearing a heavy winter coat, or in freezing temperatures wearing a tank top. Impossible, right? Now imagine the difficulty an MRI chiller system has in keeping a powerful magnetic machine at a consistent temperature in varying climates, operating on-demand 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. That’s why it’s imperative that you install an efficient and reliable MRI chiller system. 

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8 Industrial Chiller Applications

8 Industrial Chiller Applications

Industrial chillers use process cooling to funnel heat away from industrial equipment to keep it going strong. Whether air- or water-cooled, their hard-working and high-performance capabilities provide the ideal cooling solution for many industrial chiller applications:  

  1. Beer brewing
  2. Dairy milk processing
  3. Food processing
  4. Medical equipment
  5. Cannabis extraction
  6. Refrigeration
  7. Low-temperature applications
  8. Industrial manufacturing

Keep reading to learn more about how industrial chillers keep process equipment cool in these applications.

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What Gas Refrigerants Do Medical Chillers Use?

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Just like an air-conditioning unit uses refrigerant to cool the air, medical chillers use refrigerant to cool fluid used in medical equipment processing. If you’re looking for medical chillers for your imaging or medical facility, this article will outline the different types of gas refrigerants available to keep your lifesaving equipment running strong. First, we’ll start with a definition of medical chillers and outline a few of their primary field applications.

What are medical chillers?

Medical chillers are specialized industrial process chillers that use air, water, or a split configuration to keep medical equipment processes cool. With year-round cooling capability, temperature accuracy, reliability, and energy efficiency, medical chillers are designed specifically for optimal performance and uptime.

Medical chillers are used for many types of imaging and other equipment, including:

  • MRI machines
  • CT scanners
  • Linear accelerators (LINAC)
  • Laboratory reagents
  • Pharmaceutical equipment

Learn more about the types of medical chillers available to equip your imaging or other medical equipment on our website.

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The Importance of Refrigeration for Medical Equipment

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Refrigeration plays a pivotal role inthe function and performance of the medical equipment you rely on to enhance and save lives. With so much on the line, your components require a specialized chiller with a superior level of consistency and reliability. Industrial medical chillers deliver more temperature accuracy and capabilities designed specifically to maximize uptime so that you can run 24/7. 

This article will cover more on the right refrigeration methods to maximize component uptime, including the questions to ask before choosing the best one for your needs.

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What to Look For In a Medical Chiller

When it comes to medical equipment, everything is held to a higher standard. The generic chiller does not have the consistency nor reliability necessary to run with this much responsibility.

In this blog post, we’ll look at the role chiller systems play in medical devices, as well as some of the things you should look for when searching for medical chillers.

Chiller systems for medical devices

You’ll find chillers in several different medical applications, including MRIs, CT scanners, linear accelerators, PET scanners and body temperature management systems.

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