Copeland’s next-generation fixed speed scroll compressors will initially launch with 12-15 ton models in February with the full lineup of 6-40 tons incrementally releasing over the next two years. These compressors are regulation-ready and optimized for the following refrigerants: R410A (ZPKZ models), R32 (YPK1/KA models), and R454B (YAK1 models).
“Meeting upcoming regulations, including higher efficiency levels and lower GWP refrigerant capability in products, presents a challenge for our customers,” said Mark Bills, vice president and general manager for Commercial Air Conditioning, Emerson. “This innovative compressor lineup has been carefully designed for industry-leading efficiency and reliability and is suitable for our customers and end-users to apply across a wide array of commercial applications including rooftops, splits, chillers and reversible systems.”
Emerson’s Next-Generation Fixed-Speed Scroll Compressors offer the following New Features:
- New scroll design, replacing a 20-year-old scroll platform
- New hermetic motor redesigned to maximize efficiency
- Unique scroll discharging valve to reduce over-compression at light loads, optimizing performance over a range of applications
- Oil-injection (certain models) to mitigate heat in the scrolls thereby increasing the operating envelope
- Plug-n-play electronics to prevent customers from redesigning their system controllers
- Harmonized external features to reduce the footprint and simplify tandem designs
- Tandems and multiples (limited models) will be available shortly following the February launch
- Manufactured on a new, state-of-the-art, automated assembly line in Lebanon, MO