ClimaCheck, the pioneering Swedish-designed refrigeration and air conditioning performance evaluation tool, has won a national award for excellence at the ACR News Awards, held last month in Birmingham. The technology, developed by Swedish thermodynamics expert Klas Berglof, won the title Refrigeration Product of the Year 2009, in competition with major companies such as Foster, Bitzer and Emerson Climate Technologies.

The portable system enables engineers in the field to quickly determine how well plant is performing, its actual COP, cooling and heating capacity, power input and compressor isentropic efficiency.

According to the company’s press release, ClimaCheck is able to identify incipient faults by analysing trends in performance and anomalies in results. Using this data, it is possible to identify problems that could result in plant breakdown if left untreated. It can also be used with any refrigerant, and specific templates are available to enable ClimaCheck to be used with different systems configurations, including reverse cycle heat pumps and plant equipped with economisers.

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