EVENTS AND EXHIBITIONS
INCORPORATING COLD CHAIN
using more diesel than they should because of
poor thermal efficiencies (K-factor in terms of ATP)
These are all things impacting on energy usage
in the refrigerated transport sector.
ABOUT SAIRAC
Before lunch, Erik Kiderlen, who serves on the
South African Institute of Refrigeration and Air
Conditioning (SAIRAC) Cape Town centre’s
committee as education coordinator, was given
a few minutes to talk about the association and
what it does.
“We need to be guiding the South African
Bureau of Standards and our industry to get
better training, because we do find that a lot of
our industry activities are not done in a cohesive
approach,” he said.
BREAKAWAY SESSIONS
After lunch, the afternoon’s format was divided into
three parallel breakaway sessions. Delegates could
choose which session and which specific talks they
were interested in attending.
Although a few speakers unfortunately did not
arrive for their talks, there were still an interesting
variety of academics who presented executive
summaries of their research. All the papers had been
collated into a book, which each delegate received.
The first three parallel sessions were grouped as
follows:
1. Refrigeration workshop
2. Energy used in mines as well as in industry and
HVAC&R
3. Power generation, transmission, distribution,
tariffs, metering, and cost of electricity.
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Following a short break for afternoon
refreshments, the breakaway sessions
continued along similar themes before the bus
departed for the official conference dinner
where delegates could network and socialise
more informally.
FINAL DAY
On 16 August, the entire programme followed
the breakaway format with parallel sessions
running until the conference officially
concluded in the afternoon.
The morning sessions were divided as follows:
1. Demand side management
2. Africampus
3. Tariffs, metering, and cost of electricity.
There were only two sessions before lunch, broken
up as follows:
1. Demand side management
2. Climate change and environmental issues.
After lunch, the last two parallel sessions allowed
delegates to choose between:
1. Energy used in mines and industry; and
2. Energy audits, measurement and verification,
power generation, transmission, and
distribution.
BEST PAPER
Before the official closing, the ‘best paper’ award
was handed out. This went to Andries Gous from
North-West University for his paper ‘Addressing
uncertainties in the South African carbon tax
landscape’.
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John Ackermann (Cold Link Africa and SARDA), with Erik Kiderlen
(Ashway Investments and SAIRAC), seated.
www.coldlinkafrica.co.za
COLD LINK AFRICA • November | December 2017