How do I prevent frost on my chiller?

Insulation helps reduce heat loss and prevent frost on your chiller.

How do I prevent frost and condensation on my chiller? This is a question we get a lot. Fortunately, the answer is relatively simple. To prevent frost on your chiller, you need to insulate your tubing to reduce heat loss. 

Here’s why insulation is important. Let’s say you have an uninsulated house; your furnace and air conditioner unit will work harder to keep you comfortable. The amount of heat loss directly impacts the efficiency of your furnace or air conditioner. The same holds true for your chiller. 

How do you know if you’re experiencing heat loss when cooling or heating an application?

To maintain temperature control from a chiller to an application, you need to pay careful attention to where you experience heat loss. For example, if you’re running a cooling application and see ice or condensation forming on adapters or tubing, you know you have some heat loss.

You may not realize that heat loss can also affect heating applications. Exposed adapters and uninsulated tubing lose heat to the atmosphere. However, you won’t see frost forming during a heating application. Nevertheless, it’s still important to know where heat is lost. At elevated temperatures, exposed tubing and adapters can become hot to the touch, creating a hazard for anyone who may come into contact with the tubing or adapter. 

Protect your application from frost and heat loss.

JULABO USA offers insulation for rubbing tubing and insulating metal tubing to eliminate heat loss, whether you’re cooling or heating your application. We offer icing protection sleeves to minimize ice formation on meatal fittings or adapters for low-temperature applications. Insulated tubing and protection sleeves provide the best protection against heat loss and frost development. 

Your JULABO account manager can help you find accessories you need to prevent heat loss based on your JULABO and application.