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Montluel center of excellence

Montluel's experts bring their specialist knowledge and engineering skills. Their aim is to offer our customers the best in chiller and heat pump innovation.

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Dive into the journey of our solutions, from design to manufacturing.

Key activities

New technology & product development

Innovation as a key player. The Research and design center can design, choose and qualify the best technologies that would meet markets requirements and upcoming regulations. Such as the latest EU EcoDesign and the low GWP refrigerants regulations that are a new challenge for the HVAC industry.

Prototypes & tests

The Montluel Center of Excellence carries out prototyping for internal development teams, and testing for both internal teams and for customers. Highly responsive to their requests, the laboratory performed over 140 tests for customers in 2015, acting as a third-party laboratory in compliance with ISO 17025 and COFRAC certification 1-0108.

Montluel - 15 Test Rooms

The Montluel Center of Excellence has no fewer than 15 individual test rooms, providing an extensive range of trials and evaluations.

Thermal, performance, endurance & acoustic tests
A/C and W/C Chillers, as well as Terminal Units
Ambient control from -25°C to +55°C with humidity conditions of 5% to 95%
1,200 measurement sensors
3,600kW maximum water-cooled unit test capacity
1.800kW maximum air-cooled unit test capacity
6MW total test capacity
Ability to reach and maintain stable conditions
High precision method for acoustic measurement
Specific tests on request

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Chiller controls

All chillers have standardized ''built-in-display web controller'':

Color Touch screen with web server avaibility
Certified BAcnet stack
Multiple languages available
Trending logs for 7 day
Direct links to parameters (pump icon, setpoint icon, circuit)
Use icons instead of text
Animated gif to help the customer understanding
Modern icons & graphical charts
Give a global view to the user
Screens interactive / dynamic

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Modeling Analysis Simulation & Computation (MASC)

The Center's numerical simulation platform capabilities include Model-Based Definition (MBD), Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), Finite Element Analysis (FEA) and 3-D design.

Selection tools

Montluel Center of Excellence leverage digital transformation and technologies to help sales force focus on their customers, and engineers on innovation. Our selection tools package all product knowledge and data needed to quickly find the best product configuration based on customer needs.

Customization

The Research and Design Center and Laboratory has a dedicated customization team specializing in bespoke solutions to meet the Chiller and Heat Pump needs of individual customers. This includes applied engineering in fields such as seismic, nuclear, marine or offshore applications.

Certifications

Performances	EUROVENT	Approved by Eurovent Certifications, European reference label of the energy performance of air conditioning and refrigeration equipments
Quality Management System	ISO 9001:2015	Approved by Lloyd's Register
Quality Management System	DESP 2014/68/UE	Approved by LRQA
Environmental Management System	ISO 14001:2015	Approved by Lloyd's Register
Quality System & case-by-case	Marine Application	Approved by Lloyd's Register, Det Norske Veritas (DNV) & Germanisher Lloyd's (GL)
Air-cooled & water-cooled performance	AHRI	Approved by AHRI, America reference label of the energy performance of air conditioning and refrigeration equipments