InvenSor GmbH, adsorption technology as the technology of the future, applied to chillers and air conditioners

Adsorption technology could be the technology of the future, applied to chillers and air conditioners.

These are the results achieved by InvenSor GmbH, a German company leader in high-tech cooling solutions, whose portfolio of orders for this new industrial technology in the last 6 months even exceeded the one recorded in 2013 alone.

Many reasons lead to the company success, that is:

- The global increase in energy demand, set to increase up to 41% by 2035, supported mostly by BRICS, India and china in particular;
- The versatility of this new technology, which can be used in a wide variety of applications, such as schools, stores, banks, restaurants, offices, etc.;
- The cost and energy consumption optimization.

Needless to say, as the numbers speak for themselves: InvenSor GmbH has been able to catch and meet the new market trend by developing and producing the new adsorption chillers, which are energy-saving, efficient and environmentally friendly.

InvenSor adsorbtion chillers, in fact, are powered by waste heat, rather than electricity, and use pure water as a refrigerant, that is, a natural refrigerant, which also represents the main key to access the future refrigeration and heat market.

As said before, a variety of applications are served by InvenSor adsorbtion chillers in the 5–100 kw range: trigeneration installations, for example, as in Germany, where they are used in combination with CHP (heat&power) units: the electricity and waste heat ejected by them can be used either by heating applications and chillers.

The industrial segment of food production, plastics processing or electroplating, is also benefiting from this new technology, as stated by Niels Braunschweig, CEO and Director of R&D at InvenSor: “We are able to achieve very good annual operating hours of the chillers due to continuous operation of the processes, resulting in favorable payback time for the systems. It’s a very promising area of application for the future”. Thanks to significantly lower CO2 emissions than conventional air conditioners, adsorption chillers actually protect the climate and environment.

A further application area of adsorption chillers are renewables: a growing number of these systems is being powered by solar energy and installed in warmer countries. Sören Paulußen, CEO of InvenSor GmbH, confirmed the on-going market’s tendency by stating that: “We’re seeing clear signs that there’s growing demand on the market for thermally powered chillers. There’s increased awareness among planners and installation companies (…) especially in the area of industrial applications and solar cooling”.

InvenSor adsorption chillers are an eco-friendly technology as well as a user-friendly tool: by virtue of their color touch display in multiple languages, the automatic optimization of operations and the default internet interface, it is really easy to program target temperatures of water or to use them also as a heat pump.