Pre-Planned Chiller Hire
Preserves Stored Food
When a major food distribution warehouse
needed to upgrade its in-house chiller it
called upon the services of one to the UK’s
leading chiller hire companies, Andrews
Chiller Hire, to provide an alternative
solution that would keep warehouse
temperatures at a safe level for preserving
stored food.
Andrews Chiller Hire provides a true 24/7,
365 day access to specialist engineering
staff that will advise and offer solutions
to maintaining room temperature,
whether it is an office environment
issue, a production problem or chilled
warehousing requirement. With more
than 25 depots strategically positioned
around the UK and an extensive fleet of
air-cooled fluid air chillers with capacities
from 6kW to more than 750kW Andrews is
well placed to respond quickly and deliver
temporary, time-critical response.
During discussion with Andrews’ sales
engineers it became apparent to the
customer how Andrews’ Fast Chill units
would prove to be the perfect solution
these self–contained chillers supplied
ready-to-run. The main advantage of
Andrews Chiller Fast Chill 90 units is their
portability.
It meant quick and easily temporary
installation, providing 100kW of cooling
at -10oC to ensure stock did not degrade
during a schedule plant shutdown.
All FC90 units were placed at a high level
within the storage area and connected
to a bank of exterior heat exchangers
to dissipate the extracted heat to
atmosphere. They draw hot energy into
the system, this passes over a cold coil,
is converted into water which is then
pumped to a condenser within the heat
exchanger where it is discharged outside
the building.
The Fast Chill 90 has a powerful fan
delivering outstanding performance,
10,000 m3 cooled air flow with a capability
down to -10oC and ability to maintain local
environments to within +/- 0.5oC.
Pre-planned Plant Upgrade
During the past decade many
organisations operating chilled and cold
stores have had to implement planned
maintenance programmes for a R22
refrigerant swap out or consider a more
costly option of investing in totally new
plant.
New equipment using HCFC refrigerants
like R22 were banned from 2001 (or 2004
for small air-conditioning systems) and
since 1st January 2010 the use of virgin
HCFCs to service and maintain existing
refrigeration and air-conditioning (RAC)
equipment was also banned in all EU
Member States. From 1st January this
year it has been illegal to use any HCFCs to
service RAC equipment, hence recycled or
reclaimed HCFC may no longer be used.
The major food chain distributor had
carefully pre-planned for closure of its’
in-house cooling plant and taken positive
precautions by discussing their situation
with chiller hire experts, Andrews Chiller
Hire, to ensure food stock would not
degrade. On the scheduled date Andrews
delivered and installed a total of ten
Fast Chill 90 Low Temperature Chillers
to keep the warehouse at the required
temperature until maintenance work was
completed.
The simplicity and speed of installation of
the Fast Chill hire range makes it ideal for
many applications especially in the food
and beverage sector, specific engineering
process applications as well as in
pharmaceutical and agricultural industries.
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