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Your Needs, Our Priority: Trane Chillers

Trane chillers are engineered to enhance thermal management across your entire system, delivering the efficiency, reliability, and flexibility your operations require.

Overview

Transforming buildings, one solution at a time.

At Trane, we innovate for a sustainable future with advanced chiller solutions for modern thermal management needs. Our diverse chiller portfolio delivers efficient, sustainable, and reliable cooling and heating, tailored to your specific needs.

  1. Smarter Efficiency

    Lower operational costs with Trane chillers, designed for high efficiency and reduced energy consumption.

  2. Lower Emissions, Real Impact

    Trane chillers use low-GWP refrigerants and offer energy-saving options like free cooling and heat recovery, aligning with your operational and environmental goals.

  3. Ready for What’s Next

    Our modular, scalable chiller solutions adapt to your needs, supporting today’s projects and tomorrow’s growth.

  4. More Than a Chiller – A System Solution

    Trane integrates system-wide thermal management, starting with your chiller, for efficient energy use and climate control.

Air-Cooled & Water-Cooled Chillers

Each building has individual conditions for comfort and productivity. Our air-cooled and water-cooled chillers enhance thermal management systems by delivering precise temperature control. They provide high performance and energy efficiency to help reduce operating costs and environmental impact.

Cold Generator Scroll Chillers

Trane Cold Generator Scroll Chillers are a family of traditional capacity and compact expandable capacity Scroll chillers suitable for a range of comfort and process cooling applications. Concise footprints and doorway friendly design make them an ideal solution for new construction, retrofit and replacement applications.

Comprehensive Chiller-Heater Systems

Trane® Comprehensive Chiller-Heater systems, featuring electric heat pumps, provide cost-effective, energy-efficient, reliable cooling and heating, while reducing carbon emissions.

Comprehensive Chilled Water Systems

Comprehensive chilled-water systems employ best practices in chiller plant design that align with current industry guidance for achieving high performance cooling, heating, and ventilation, all while reducing first cost.
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Trane® Air-Cooled Chillers and Heat Pumps

Trane’s air-cooled chillers and heat pumps are designed for customizable efficiency, sustainability, and cost-effective thermal management in commercial buildings.

Heat Pump Chillers

Discover the industry-renowned energy efficiency of Trane heat pump chillers for cost-effective, environmentally friendly thermal management. Explore our heat pump chillers today.
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Process Cooling

With the acquisition of MTA, Trane has expanded its product portfolio to include purpose-built units for a myriad of industrial process cooling applications. Our process chillers offer suitability for different manufacturing cooling needs in multiple industries.

Thermafit™ Modular Chillers

Trane’s line of Thermafit™ cooling and heating modular chillers for commercial air-conditioning and heating meet project requirements where space is limited. These units are easy to ship, install, maintain and expand.

Water-Cooled Chillers

A diverse portfolio of water-cooled chillers, featuring centrifugal and helical rotary screw technologies, ranging from 80 to over 4,000 tons.

Trane System & Design Resources

Backed by our extensive history of HVAC system design and software simulation knowledge, our team and resources help answer your challenges and empower you to create a more sustainable world.

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    Comprehensive Chilled Water Systems

    Comprehensive chilled-water systems employ best practices in chiller plant design that align with current industry guidance for achieving high performance cooling, heating, and ventilation, all while reducing first cost.

  • Comprehensive Heat Pump Chiller Systems

    Discover how Trane heat pump chiller systems simplify the implementation of cost-effective, energy-efficient, reliable, sustainable cooling and hydronic heating while helping to reduce carbon emissions.

  • Air-to-Water Cascade System for High Temperature Heating

    A heat pump cascade system cost-effectively extends high efficiency heat pumps into higher temperature ranges. Explore the Trane cascade HVAC system.

  • Thermal Battery Energy Storage Systems

    Trane® Thermal Battery™ Storage systems help lower utility bills, increase sustainability, and provide greater operational flexibility by integrating thermal energy storage.

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    HVAC Design and Analysis Tools

    Backed by Trane's long history of HVAC system design and software simulation knowledge, our cutting-edge HVAC tools and calculators answer your challenges and help create a more sustainable world.

FAQs

Your questions about air and water cooled chillers, answered.

Chillers are used for the thermal management of buildings and process applications. Our chillers are matches for any one of these applications, offering precise temperature control for highlight efficient cooling & heating systems, including:

  1. Commercial HVAC 
  2. District Cooling & Heating
  3. Industrial Manufacturing
  4. Food and Beverage
  5. Data Centers
  6. High Tech

Some of the main types of chillers that Trane manufactures include centrifugal chillers, which are typically used for large thermal management loads and are known for their high efficiency and reliability; helical rotary (screw) chillers, suitable for medium to large thermal management loads and known for their efficiency and ability to handle varying load conditions; and scroll chillers, often used for smaller to medium-sized applications and known for their compact size and quiet operation.

Trane chillers use low-GWP (Global Warming Potential) refrigerants to help reduce environmental impact. Some of the common low-GWP refrigerants used in Trane chillers include R-1233zd, R-1234ze, R-514A, R-515B, R-513A, and R-454B. The choice of refrigerant depends on several factors including application, compressor technology, efficiency, environmental impact, safety, and regulatory requirements.

Customer Stories

Trust our expert guidance to tackle even the most complex challenges.

  • Northstar Center

    Northstar Center is a three-building complex consisting of two high-rise office buildings and the seventeen-story, twenty-four-hour Crown Plaza Hotel, built atop a six-floor parking garage. Building tenants are extremely diverse, consisting of lawyers, banks, shoe stores and a variety of other businesses.

  • Asante Rogue Regional Medical Center

    Asante Rogue Regional Medical Center added a fifth chiller and updated controls with Trane, saving nearly $187,000 annually and increasing redundancy and energy efficiency.

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    Hardin Medical Center

    Hardin Medical Center upgraded its HVAC system with Trane, improving patient comfort, reducing energy costs by 30%, and receiving an $11,500 rebate from the Tennessee Valley Authority.

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    • Customer Story

    Baylor College of Medicine

    After flooding, Baylor College of Medicine installed a 5000-ton Trane/TAS Modular Chiller Plant, solving space and cost issues. The new plant is 15% more efficient and storm-ready.

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