Le Havre, France

Reliable 24/7 cooling for an oil refinery

In a refinery, the refining process runs continuously. Every shutdown and restart is costly and puts stress on the equipment, which operates at high temperature and high pressure. Apart from scheduled annual maintenance shutdowns, all equipment must therefore run 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

In Le Havre, a BROAD absorption chiller produces the chilled water used to cool the process. It runs on steam from the refining process, so heat that is already available on site is used to produce cooling.

• Unit type: single-effect steam absorption chiller × 1 unit
• Cooling capacity: 2.6 MW
• Heat source: 1.8 bar(g) steam from the refining process
• Cooling water: cooling tower (inlet 27 °C, outlet 37 °C)
• Chilled water: supply 4.4 °C, return 9.4 °C
• Use: refining process cooling, in continuous operation
• Maintenance: maintenance service for reliable operation all year round