CHILLVENTA 2022
GEA Heating & Refrigeration
Technologies
At this year's Chillventa, which takes place in Nuremberg,
Germany, from October 11-13, GEA will present
product solutions to some of the most pressing issues
of our time. These include products that help, for example,
to reduce carbon emissions, achieve greater energy
efficiency and ultimately also lead to lower total
cost of ownership (TCO).
For the first time, the GEA Division will appear under
its new name GEA Heating & Refrigeration Technologies.
Product launches will therefore be presented not
only in the refrigeration sector but also in the heating
sector. Among others, the following will be presented
» a screw compressor specially designed for heat
pumps and their requirements,
» a new semi-hermetic compressor that increases
safety and is available together with the GEA BluX
ammonia chiller or as a Grasso X package,
» a monitoring and control system that allows
compressors to be monitored from anywhere
and requires little space and
» the enhanced GEA RedGenium heat pump, which
can be viewed using augmented reality.
A project by HRT's digitization team invites trade show
visitors to share their thoughts on digitization trends.
Topics here include potential for improvement and
growth in processes, products and business models,
digitization of production technology and in processes,
and data collection and analysis.
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GEA Heating & Refrigeration will show several
new developments at Chillventa (photo: GEA)
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BECKHOFF AUTOMATION
Controller redundancy with
standard hardware components
Beckhoff expanded its extensive range of solutions to
include a software solution for redundant control operation:
TwinCAT Controller Redundancy.
While the robust design of the company’s Industrial
PCs alone already ensures a high level of availability,
Beckhoff is now expanding its product portfolio to
check yet another box with TwinCAT Controller Redundancy
(TF1100). This entirely software-based solution
allows two standard industrial PCs that both run the
same PLC program to operate as redundant controllers
in just a few easy steps.
An additional, high-performance network connection
between the two controllers provides the necessary
synchronization. Standard Ethernet is used here,
so no dedicated hardware components are required.
With minimal effort, this ensures that only one of the
two industrial PCs addresses the fieldbus components
at any given time, and that the control programs are
executed simultaneously on both computers. This synchronicity
is the basic prerequisite for changing the
primary industrial PC in the event of a fault without
losing any information.
Beckhoff Automation added TwinCAT Controller
Redundancy to ist portfolio (photo: Beckhoff
Automation)
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