PROJECT
Daikin has recently supplied 8 water-cooled chiller units to provide cooling in the High-Luminosity LHC project at CERN. This installation will allow the CERN laboratory to gather a higher quantity of data and observe rare processes, as the increase in luminosity will make the LHC more powerful.
PRODUCTS
CHALLENGE & SOLUTIONS
The High-Luminosity LHC (Large Hadron Collider) project aims to boost the performance of the LHC to increase the potential for discoveries after 2029. The goal of the project is to provide cooling and increase the integrated luminosity by a factor of 10 beyond the LHC’s design value. The increase of the luminosity is to crank up the performance of the accelerator luminosity and allows the experiments to gather more data. Consequently, more power means more data, but also means more heat, which needs to be removed to ensure the reliability of the equipment used in the experiments. That is the purpose of the water-cooled screw inverter chillers supplied: providing cooling which will be used to dissipate the heat generated by the increased Luminosity of the Large Hadron Collider. The Daikin VZ and the Daikin J Series perfectly met CERN’s needs, thanks to the Daikin In-house designed Single Screw compressor technology, which can guarantee exceptionally high-efficiency levels. Besides energy efficiency, the environmental impact aspect was addressed by using units with HFO refrigerant R-1234ze and R-513A refrigerant, both with low GWP (Global Warming Potential) values.