ENGIE Refrigeration celebrates 20 years of QUANTUM chillers

Powerful performance, outstanding reliability and high efficiency: For 20 years, the QUANTUM chillers from ENGIE Refrigeration have been providing precise cooling for industry, production and public office buildings – and have earned an excellent reputation with customers. The first generation of QUANTUM models with oil-free compressor technology with magnetic bearings and a cooling capacity of up to 1.8 megawatts hit the markets in June 2003 and instantly garnered the German Industry Innovation Award. In 2007, the team at ENGIE Refrigeration developed its modular ellipse-based design and extended the capacity range to up to 2.4 megawatts. At the same time the experts also developed the first air-cooled QUANTUM chiller, the QUANTUM Air. The third QUANTUM generation followed quickly, in 2013, with an optional open-flash economizer and a cooling capacity of up to 3.3 megawatts; it has also been available with the low-GWP refrigerant R-1234ze since 2015. In 2016, the company added the QUANTUM Power chiller, with a cooling capacity of up to 8 megawatts, to its portfolio. The newly designed air-cooled QUANTUM series was launched in 2019, followed in 2021 by the new water-cooled QUANTUM series, with the four refrigerants R-1234ze, R-515B, R134a and R513A and a cooling capacity of around four megawatts. On the occasion of the anniversary, Jochen Hornung, CEO of ENGIE Refrigeration, had this to say: ‘The QUANTUM story is a story of success. We are proud that our QUANTUM chillers have been among the best in their class since the very beginning, and that they are now being operated by satisfied customers in a variety of industries. ‘Our aim is to build the most powerful, energy-efficient and thus sustainable systems possible, and the QUANTUM has fully lived up to this aim for 20 years.’

QUANTUM contains 20 years of experience

More than 4,600 QUANTUM chillers from ENGIE Refrigeration are currently installed around the world, about 3,650 water-cooled models and around 1,000 air-cooled models (as of
June 2023). The experts have concentrated 20 years of experience in the product development of chillers in the current QUANTUM series. The QUANTUM Air, for example, offers a cooling capacity of between 250 kilowatts and two megawatts – thus outperforming all air-cooled chillers with magnetic-bearing compressor technology that are currently available on the market. The water-cooled QUANTUM series, known as the QUANTUM Water, is equipped with a novel combination of technological components and innovative digital features, and thus provides a peak performance for the range from 200 kilowatts to four megawatts. Similarly, the QUANTUM Water is the most efficient water-cooled chiller series on the market. QUANTUM models are still developed and produced in Lindau on Lake Constance, but their quality made in Germany is popular with international customers. Both the QUANTUM Air and the QUANTUM Water are available in many different versions, which makes them suitable for a wide range of applications and industries – from data centres, automotive manufacturers and suppliers and the pharmaceutical and chemical industry to industrial process cooling and technical building services. And ENGIE Refrigeration has big plans for the QUANTUM, as Jochen Hornung announced: ‘We at ENGIE Refrigeration feel the constant urge to innovate, and we believe in achieving the highest standards in terms of technology and quality. We aim to be one step ahead of the market, especially with our QUANTUM, and to offer today’s users the cooling and heating solutions of the future. That is why our customers can be certain that we will continue to launch innovations on the market.’