Product Development / Design
Develop State-of-the-Art Products
Experimental Research, Analysis and Consulting, Design, Simulation, and Prototyping Capabilities
Working confidentially with you on many levels to enhance your products
- Increased system performance (heating/cooling capacity and efficiency)
- Implementation of alternative refrigerants
- Lower GWP
- Enhanced performance
- Reduced flammability or toxicity
- Integration of novel technologies
- Decreased weight and/or volume of system
- Overall refrigerant charge reduction
- Cost reduction
Experimental Research
Cutting-edge facilities to explore full systems, system components, and perform fundamental research
- Study of alternative natural and man-made refrigerants
- Observation of distribution in heat exchangers and their headers
- Study of pressure drop, heat transfer, fluid mixture properties, two-phase fluid flows including those related to sub-millimeter length scales
- Analysis of efficiency and design of various flow separators
- Destructive and nondestructive durability testing
- Analysis of acoustic profiles from compressors and issues in heat exchangers and expansion devices including implementation of noise mitigation solutions
- Visualization of flow through novel expansion devices
- Visualization of compressor discharge
- Precise measurement of leakage rates of various refrigerants
Analysis and Consulting
- Accurate and repeatable experimental and simulation data
- Analysis and understanding behind the data
- Observations and results meaningful to your application
- Consulting services to help clients better understand their own experimental or performance data to provide valuable results and optimized designs
Product Design
- Expertise in novel product design
- Services for customers looking for innovative new products
- Consulting yielding improvements to existing products
- Design activities accompanied by prototyping services
Simulation
- Modular, In-house CTS written simulation models used to predict system and component performances
- Computation models are used in design as well as analysis and optimization of the elements under examination
- Predict system and component performances
- Models are validated and refined over a wide range of operating conditions
- Vast experimental database to validate simulation models
- Typical 5% accuracy match of dynamic and steady-state system response (ie cooling capacity and energy efficiency-COP) to experimental data
Prototyping
Custom fabricated solutions for any stage in the design, development, or product engineering processes
- Special units for in-house testing
- Custom components
- Turn-key, one-off products
- Demonstration models
