Since 1969, Thermal Care has manufactured industrial water chillers and process cooling equipment for industry worldwide. Skillfully engineered temperature controllers, portable chillers and central chillers, cooling towers and pump/reservoirs, provide customers with a wide range of process cooling solutions from off-the-shelf models to integrated, customized systems. As an ISO 9001 certified manufacturer, Thermal Care provides heat transfer equipment for over 50 industries and specializes in meeting the specific needs of our customers by offering both standard and custom-designed industrial process cooling solutions.
All Thermal Care products are built in the USA at its plant in Niles, Illinois. In everything we do, we believe in providing superior equipment and exceptional service while fostering excellence and inspiring confidence in our customers and employees.
Thermal Care is the plastics industry's best industrial chiller manufacturer with portable chillers, central chillers, cooling towers, temperature controllers, pumping systems, and more for all applications. We will be there for you every step of the way from system design, equipment selection, installation requirements, equipment startup, and beyond.
Reduce energy consumption by up to 60% with variable speed chiller compressors with Thermal Care. Most chiller systems designs use the maximum possible heat load at 100% production capacity of the process equipment to ensure there is always enough cooling capacity. In most cases, the production equipment is operating at much less than maximum capacity so the chiller is ‘over-sized.’ A variable-speed compressor is a great way to save this excess energy.
An industrial Portable or Packaged Water Chiller refers to a unique design configuration of a self-contained chiller system that combines all necessary components including – the refrigeration circuit, controls and electrics, process pump and reservoir all within a single unit. Most often a Portable Packaged Chiller has a small footprint, is mobile and is located near the process being cooled. The capacity of these units usually range from 1 to 40 tons of cooling.
An industrial central chiller is a piece of equipment used to provide cooling for multiple processes. The chiller incorporates both the refrigeration circuit and controls and is installed in conjunction with a pumping system. The pumping system can be integral to the chiller but often the two items are installed separately. Central chillers are used for higher cooling capacity requirements and offer a cost effective means to cool multiple processes without requiring a single portable chiller dedicated to each process. Central chillers are also highly energy efficient utilizing special compressor technology like oil free designs. The capacity of these systems can range from 10 to 250+ tons. The chillers are typically modular and can be added to a system in the future to expand the cooling capacity.
A temperature controller is a piece of equipment used to maintain a designated temperature. A temperature controller can operate at elevated temperatures to either heat or cool a system as needed. The units incorporate a pump, heater, cooling valve and PID controller. Temperature controllers are available with a variety of configurations using a wide range of pump (3/4 hp to 10 hp), heater (9 kW to 48 kW) and valve (1/4 in to 1 in) sizes. The experts at Thermal Care will help you select the required configuration to best match the needs of your system.
Industrial cooling towers are an effective way to remove unwanted heat from one place to another using water as the transport media. Cooling towers are an extremely cost-effective solution for process cooling when the temperature required is near 85°F or above. Water-cooled chiller condensers also typically require 85°F inlet water, so a cooling tower system is perfect for a water-cooled chiller system.
While there are a number of different manufacturers using various designs, all cooling towers operate using the same principle of evaporative cooling. A cooling tower removes heat from a process and rejects it to the atmosphere through the process of evaporation. The state change from liquid to gas absorbs large amounts of energy. Cooling towers are constructed of three major components: fan, fill, and shell. In a typical application, water is pumped through a process or process machinery where it removes heat. The warm water is pumped outside to the cooling tower where it is disturbed over the fill (a PVC structure design to increase available surface area) inside the cooling tower. An electrically powered fan moves air through the tower and causes a small portion of the water to evaporate which cools the rest of the water left in the cooling tower. This process operates more efficiently and provides much cooler water temperatures than simple fan-cooled air coils.
Thermal Care offers a complete line of custom engineered pumping systems for cooling tower and central chiller applications with the highest quality design and construction features available.
Simple solutions for curbing the naturally occurring problems in cooling system water. Engineered to provide control of scale, suspended solids and microbiological growth in cooling tower water. Thermal Care's water treatment systems are designed to be efficient, compact, flexible, and easy-to-operate. The TWC Series incorporates all necessary facets of a cooling tower or central chiller treatment system on a single, space-saving panel. System information is displayed on a LCD screen in one of four languages.
Debris in a cooling system can damage equipment and disrupt operation. Filtration is the first line of defense. Thermal Care offers options ranging from cartridge and bag filters for side-stream use to stainless steel strainers handling full system flow up to 1,000 gpm (3,785 lpm). Each option is designed to protect your equipment with minimal impact on system performance.
Thermal Care is proud to offer plate and frame heat exchangers as accessories to our full line of chillers, cooling towers, and adiabatic and dry coolers. We offer straightforward accessory upgrades for safety, efficiency, easier maintenance, and lower cost operation over time for your cooling system's long-life cycles.
CONNEX4.0 offers integrated connectivity and secure remote access for all of your Thermal Care equipment.
Large 12-inch high-resolution color touch-screen HMI provides complete access to all operating and diagnostic screens of up to 15 Thermal Care chillers or pumping systems. With a single button system start and centralized monitoring, plantwide temperature control has never been so easy.
We are there for you through every step of the process from design to installation.
As one of the largest providers of heat transfer cooling solutions in the United States, Thermal Care’s expertise is in the design of plant wide cooling systems. A system typically is comprised of a central chiller, tank, cooling tower and other components such as a heat exchanger, water treatment, filtration, variable frequency drive, and/or 3 way valves. A system can be used for a single process or multiple plant wide applications.
