iCool™, Intelligent Process Cooling for Optimized Plastics Molding
The next generation in process cooling technology for the plastics industry.
 Founded in 2007 by Ken Johnson, MoldCool USA brings to market a next generation advanced Hybrid injection molding temperature controller design that provides a precision thermal energy delivery method in place of the conventional single parameter “loop of water” temperature control.
With the addition of a “flow” control parameter added to conventional “temperature” control, the ability to control and compute the Thermal Energy/Cycle being delivered to the molding process is achieved.
The objectives:
- Provide the most effective and consistent cooling available.
- Use the best available pump and controls technology.
- Deliver the most energy efficient process water controller.
- Reduce the cost of mold cooling.
- The system must be built for the shop floor.
- No mold instrumentation required.
The iCool™ Controller, based on patent pending technology, is the result of that work.
iCool™ Process Water Controllers:
- Thermal energy management vs. simple temperature based circulation.
- Energy Balanced: Cooling capacity matched to actual heat input, for every cycle
- Four layer, hybrid control system:
- Layer 1: Temperature. Maintain to within 0.1 deg F
- Layer 2: Flow Rate: Control for any change in supply pressure or chiller load
- Layer 3: Thermal energy balancing, to minimize any variation, per cycle
- Layer 4: Real Time Electrical Energy Consumption is measured and plotted against Temperature, Flow Rate, and Thermal Energy removal so the maximum heat removal versus minimum pump energy consumption “sweet spot” is quickly determined.
- Highly energy efficient both Thermally and Electrically, this Tight and Stable process window is easily developed and maintained: each cycle has same thermal history
iCool™ delivers the most effective cooling and will reduce operating costs by 30 to 50%.
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