
Japanese Cold Storage Operator Sees Positive Energy Performance with CO2 After Three Years
Kawai Ice & Cold Storage Installed 10 CO2 systems at its cold storage facility in Fukuoka, Japan in 2018.
Kawai Ice & Cold Storage Installed 10 CO2 systems at its cold storage facility in Fukuoka, Japan in 2018.
The highly efficient U.S-based company employs central ammonia systems as well as low-charge ammonia and transcritical CO2.
The facility has three cooling chambers and a storage capacity of 50,000 metric tons of produce.
Transcritical CO2, leveraging waste heat and supported by solar energy, was found to be the lowest-cost option for South Coast Stores.
Hamamatsu Itaku Soko replaced aging R22 equipment with transcritical system, its president said at ATMOsphere Japan.
The system, installed by Star Refrigeration, saves the Scottish brewer 30% compared to an ammonia/glycol system.
Cool Green Solutions has installed an R290-CO2 system in a cold store used for hard fruits in in the Netherlands.
The 52,000 sq. ft. (4,831 m2) cold store in County Armagh is expected to create 50 jobs by 2020
A longtime ammonia user, Henningsen Cold Storage is testing transcritical CO2 refrigeration in two locations – among the first all-CO2 industrial plants in the United States.
The cold-storage operator’s second transcritical system will replace R404A equipment.