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Anyone who has lived through a desert summer knows the disappointment. You step into the pool expecting relief and the water is as warm as a bath. In the early 2000s Rick Argovitz decided there had to be a cheaper way to cool a pool than running a refrigerated chiller. He developed and patented a system built around a fan, did the research and development in Texas, and with his wife, Mindy, turned it into Glacier Pool Coolers, now based in Scottsdale, Arizona.
A heat pump chiller cools water the way an air conditioner cools a room, with a compressor and refrigerant, and it carries the energy bill to match. Glacier's system takes a different path. Pool water is pumped under pressure through the unit, where a fan moves air across it and carries heat away, and the cooled water returns to the pool. There is no Freon and no gas. The company says it can lower pool temperature by up to 15 degrees over 12 to 14 hours, and it plumbs into the existing pool equipment and automation.
The idea has traveled well beyond backyards. Glacier coolers serve resorts and hotels, zoos, wildlife rehabilitation centers, fish hatcheries, aquaponic farms, schools, water parks and military aquatic centers. During the Summer Olympics in Japan, a large Glacier GPC280, sized for pools up to 450,000 gallons, cooled the 50-meter training pool used by U.S. Olympic and Paralympic swimmers from 86 to 77 degrees.
Glacier Pool Coolers builds a line of water-cooling systems for residential pools, commercial pools, hatcheries, sea life exhibits and farms. HVAC365 carries a Glacier pool chiller for 240-volt service in its chiller and heater section. Because it relies on airflow, it needs open space around the unit, and it should be sized to the pool's volume and plumbed in by a pool professional. See the wider pool heater range for heat/cool alternatives.
Pool water is pumped through the unit, where a fan moves air across it to carry heat away, and the cooled water returns to the pool. It uses no Freon or gas.
Glacier says its system can lower pool temperature by up to 15 degrees over 12 to 14 hours, depending on conditions.
Rick Argovitz developed and patented the system and owns the company with his wife, Mindy. It is based in Scottsdale, Arizona.
Yes. A Glacier GPC280 cooled the 50-meter training pool used by U.S. Olympic and Paralympic swimmers during the Summer Olympics in Japan, lowering it from 86 to 77 degrees.