
The Hillphoenix-Advansor Connection
U.S.-based Hillphoenix meets regularly with its more experienced Danish subsidiary to share information and gain insights into transcritical CO2 technology.
U.S.-based Hillphoenix meets regularly with its more experienced Danish subsidiary to share information and gain insights into transcritical CO2 technology.
The Swedish transcritical CO2 supplier sees the U.S. food retail sector turning towards natural refrigerant systems.
Temprite’s Tom Schmidt sees cost barriers to greater adoption of transcritical CO2 units by U.S. supermarkets, though a Clinton presidency would make a difference
The 54 mm valves can be used in industrial applications.
Two U.S. supermarkets that use ammonia/CO2 cascade refrigeration systems – a Whole Foods Market and a Piggly Wiggly – received the GreenChill Award for “Best of the Best” certified stores from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s GreenChill Partnership.
San Francisco-based EOS Climate has expanded its carbon-credits programme to allow supermarkets to earn carbon credits by installing newly manufactured, advanced refrigeration systems – such as natural refrigerant solutions – either as complete replacements of HCFC- or HFC-based equipment, or as installations in new facilities.
Hillphoenix, the Conyers, Georgia, US-based OEM that has installed transcritical CO2 booster systems in about 150 food stores in North America, is making the argument that this refrigeration technology is a viable solution “across the [U.S.],” including “very warm climates,” said Dustan Atkinson, Hillphoenix’s manager of product strategy.
Contractor Climate Pros, which this month has been installing a transcritical CO2 system for a Mariano’s supermarket in the Chicago area, is eager to start using copper-iron piping from Mueller Industries for its transcritical installations, said Richard Adkins, vice-president of sales for Climate Pros.
Source Refrigeration & HVAC, a major U.S. contractor based in Anaheim, California, is in the process of installing a subcritical CO2 refrigeration system at its headquarters’ training centre to serve as a technician-training tool.
Food Lion, a division of Ahold Delhaize, has found its first transcritical CO2 installation to be “very successful from a refrigeration standpoint,” though the chain is still evaluating the year-old system’s energy performance, said Wayne Rosa, energy & maintenance manager, Food Lion (Delhaize America Shared Services).