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.

Overview

Performance you can trust when every degree matters .

At Trane, we understand that your success depends on efficient, reliable, and sustainable thermal management solutions. Our water-cooled chillers are designed to help reduce operating expenses, lower environmental impact, and provide precise temperature control for mission-critical processes. With buildings responsible for nearly 40% of total energy use in the United States*, our advanced chiller portfolio offers a forward-looking opportunity to enhance energy efficiency and lower overall costs, delivering performance you can trust when every degree matters.

*Why Build Green? | Green Building |US EPA

  1. Experience Industry-Renowned Performance 

    Ocommitment to excellence runs deep—dating back to 1938. Our water-cooled portfolio features innovative solutions that consistently meet the highest standards, delivering industry-renowned reliability and efficiency. 

  2. Harness Advanced Controls

    Improve your operations with the Symbio® 800 controller, designed for seamless, secure connectivity and integration with building automation systems. This capability allows real-time monitoring and proactive maintenance, improving operations while helping to reduce costs. 

  3. Safeguard Mission-Critical Operations 

    With features like Rapid Restart™, your chiller can quickly recover and resume functionality after an unexpected power interruption, helping to reduce downtime and safeguarding your essential processes when it matters most.

  4. Reduce Your Environmental Footprint

    Our commitment to sustainability is reflected in our offering of low-GWP and ultra-low GWP refrigerant options, helping to reduce environmental impact. Several of our chiller models come with third-party verified environmental product declarations, providing transparency in our manufacturing practices.

  5. Improve Your System Performance 

    Our water-cooled chiller portfolio offers a range of design options to enhance your thermal management systems, including harmonic filters, heat recovery, and thermal energy storage. These features provide greater flexibility, allowing you to tailor systems to your specific operational needs and sustainability goals. 

Water-Cooled Chiller Offerings

Our water-cooled portfolio includes chillers with heat recovery capabilities, effectively making them heat pump chillers. Heat recovery is an efficient method for heating while cooling, as the chiller heat pump recycles waste heat generated during the cooling process.

Series R™ Helical Rotary Screw Chillers

  • Capacity Range: 80-400 tons; 600-5,000 MBH
  • Refrigerant: R-513A and R-515B
  • Compressor Type: Helical Rotary Screw
  • Controller: Symbio® 800-Unit Controller 
CenTraVac product family

CenTraVac® Water-Cooled Centrifugal Chillers

  • Capacity Range: 200-4000+ tons; 5,100-60,000 MBH
  • Refrigerant: R-514A and R-1233zd 
  • Compressor Type: Centrifugal
  • Low Pressure
  • Controller: Symbio® 800-Unit Controller

Agility® Magnetic Bearing Centrifugal Chiller

  • Capacity Range: 175-500 tons; 2,100-4,900 MBH
  • Refrigerant: R-513A
  • Compressor Type: Centrifugal, Magnetic Bearing
  • Medium Pressure
  • Controller: Symbio® 800

High-Performance System Design Options 

We understand the broad system-wide aspects that are necessary for effective thermal management of your building, starting with your chiller. 

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.

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