Portable Cooling Tunnel Test Unit

FPA has designed and manufactured a new cooling tunnel test unit for on site analysis of our customers cooling needs.  To support our customers, we have improved upon our existing test unit to include some exciting new features.

Specifically, we now include a polybelt carrying surface that better reflects what our customers are using in their production plants. In addition, we have built a  chilled deck or deckplate that sits below the belt extracting heat from the bottom of the products being tested. This  can be turned on or off depending on the application. As was the case with our previous unit, we continue to have an oscillating belt motion inside the portable test unit that simulates  products  as they travel down a conveyor.
We've built this test unit to be able to be taken to a customer site where a variety of tests can be performed to determine the correct cooling profile of their products.  It is a self-contained unit with an on board evaporator coil, polybelt carrying surface with or without chilled deck plates, temperature probes, data logging, and electrical control system.

This test module software enables us to capture time and temperature information at the source (post-extrusion, oven discharge, pre-packaging, etc.) in your plant.  Thermocouples are used to collect temperature readings from multiple locations and generate key data information.  This complete cooling analysis is then expressed both numerically and graphically.