Testing facility

Awal Gulf manufacturing boasts of testing facilities with state of art test equipments. Its well qualified and trained professionals have extensive product development experience to validate products. The product is tested rigorously at extreme climatic conditions both in terms of high temperature and humidity and all aspects such as endurance, reliability are considered before its launch into market.

Awal Gulf Manufacturing has its own state of Art testing facility equipped with highly advanced and clear-cut test equipments. With its extensive Product development experience and well trained professionally qualified engineers to conduct the tests. The psychometric and reliability test laboratories are one of the finest of its kind in the Middle-east. The laboratories not just cater to the performance testing and design validation of air conditioners and chest freezers as per international standards but also are designed to conduct tests based on the requirements of energy norms by various countries.

• Design and Development Test Facilities

  

  DESIGN CAPABILITIES:

  • WINDOW
  • SPLIT UNITS
  • CENTRAL A/C PRODUCTS
  • HEAT PUMPS
  • CHILLED WATER
  • FCU,AHU
  • CHEST FREEZERS
• 

  REFRIGERANTS:

  • R22, R407C AND R410A (AIRCONDITIONERS)
  • R134a (CHEST FREEZERS)
• 

  DESIGN VALIDATION:

  • ASHRAE 16, 37, ARI 210/240, SASO – 385,
    IS 1391, IS 8148

  • TEST FACILITIES:

  • Lab 1 : 0.75 TR to 6.0 TR
  • Lab 2 : 3.0 TR to 10.0 TR
  • Lab 3 : 0.75 TR to 6.0 TR
  • Reliability laboratory
  • 1 to 10 TR Chilled water FCU test facility.
  • AIR FLOW MEASUREMENT : 1200 - 5000 CFM – Lab-2
    150 - 3000 CFM - Lab-1,3
  • TEMPERATURE RANGE : Indoor ~ 05 °C to 50 °C.
    Outdoor ~ -20 °C to 65 °C.
  • HUMIDITY RANGE : 10 % to 95% RH.

• Performance Testing Conditions

  SR. No.	TEST NAME	INDOOR SIDE		AMBIENT	TEST DURATION
  		AIR IN TEMP	AIR IN TEMP
  		(DBT) O C	(WBT) O C	TEMP. °C	(HRS).
  1	COOLING CAPACITY	27	19	35	3
  2	COOLING CAPACITY - MAX	29	19	46	3
  3	MAX.OPERATING - HIGH Volts	29	19	54	3
  4	MAX.OPERATING – LOW Volts	29	19	54	3
  5	FREEZE UP @ LOW FAN SPEED	21	15	21	12
  6	HIGH HUMIDITY	27	24	27	6
  7	HEATING CAPACITY	20	15	7	3
  8	MINIMUM HEATING	20	15	-10	6
  9	MAXIMUM HEATING	27	19	24	3

• Lab 1 : 0.75 TR to 6.0 TR :

  
  • Testing for performance and airflow of units up to 6TR
  • In compliance with ISO-5151/1994 standard
  • Calorimeter- Psychrometric measurement type test facility
  • Facility with air treatment unit, humidity control, over and under
  • temperature protection
  • CODE TESTER to measure airflow
  • PLC controller
  • Relative humidity and temperature measurement
  • probes
  • Data logging with suitable software
  • Completely automated laboratory

• Lab 2 : 3.0 TR to 10.0 TR

  
  • To measure larger capacity units
  • In compliance with ARI 210-240 standard
  • Calorimeter-Psychrometric measurement type test facility
  • Facility with air treatment unit, humidity control, over and under temperature protection
  • CODE TESTER to measure airflow

• Reliability laboratory

  
  • Endurance testing of units till 5 TR
  • Safety testing – per ESMA, IEC 60335
  • Rain shower test facility (25mm/min with adjustable nozzle)
  • Environmental endurance testing
  • Component testing
  • Hipot tester for high voltage testing
  • Environmental Test
  • Salt spray chamber
  • Oscilloscope
  • Digital multi meter
  • Transportation vibration simulation (Variable frequency 20Hz to 50Hz)
  • IR meter (500VDC)
  • Lock rotor test (Monitor and stores V/A/W/Temperature of UUT)
  • Digital Current/Voltage/power meter (For single and three phase UUT)

• 1 to 10 TR Chilled water FCU test facility

  
  • Chiller performance testing
  • Water Cooled Chillers and Air Cooled Chillers Ambient Conditions: 35 deg. C to 55 Deg. C
  • Water flow measurement: Cooler up to 600 USGPM
  • Water flow measurement: Condenser up to 800 USGPM
  • Water side pressure drop through Cooler and Condenser up to 2 Kg/cm2
  • Compliance Standards:
    • ASHRAE 30-78 : Method of testing liquid chilling packages
    • ARI 550/590 : Water Chilling Packages using the vapor compression cycle

• Design Optimization Workshop

  
  • Capable of building prototypes for new product design and research
  • Technical feasibility and prototype evaluation.

• Resources :

  
  • SOFTWARE :Pro–E ( 3D solid modeling) - Sheet metal, Piping, Coil AutoCAD
    Heat exchanger Design

• DESIGN VALIDATION :

  AS PER INTERNATIONAL STANDRDS :

  • ASHRAE - 37, ARI 210/240, SASO - 385.

• TEST FACILITIES :

  • Lab 1 : 0.75 TR to 6.0 TR
  • Lab 2 : 3.0 TR to 10.0 TR
  • Lab 3 : 0.75 TR to 6.0 TR
  • Reliability laboratory
  • 1 to 10 TR Chilled water FCU test facility.

• Details of the laboratories :

  
  • Testing for performance and airflow of units
  • In compliance with ISO-5151/1994 standard
  • Calorimeter- Psychrometric measurement type test facility
  • Facility with air treatment unit, humidity control, over and under temperature protection
  • PLC controller
  • Relative humidity and temperature measurement probes
  • Data logging with suitable software
  • Completely automated laboratory

• Chiller unit testing

  • Chiller performance testing
  • Water Cooled Chillers and Air Cooled Chillers
  • Ambient Conditions: 35 deg. C to 55 Deg. C
  • Water flow measurement: Cooler up to 600 USGPM
  • Water flow measurement: Condenser up to 800 USGPM
  • Water side pressure drop through Cooler and Condenser up to 2 Kg/cm2
  • Compliance Standards:
    • ASHRAE 30-78: Method of testing liquid chilling packages
    • ARI 550/590: Water Chilling Packages using the vapor compression cycle

• ON LINE DATA COMPUTATION / VISULIZATION DATA IS COLLECTED EVERY 1 SECOND :