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John Skelton - How Sainsbury's 20x20 sustainability plan has shaped its refrigeration strategy
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published on 16 October 2013
John Skelton presents Sainsbury’s Supermarket investments in climate friendly technology resulting from their 20x20 sustainability plan. Considered a pioneer of CO2 transcritical refrigeration, the retailer now has 167 stores, including 166 supermarkets and 1 convenience store, using R744 technology. The retailer has also supported the development of the British Refrigeration Association short course on CO2 refrigeration, and funded familiarisation training fro its engineers with different pack manufacturers and with the retailer’s control supplier.
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Amad Hafez - Refrigerant fluids: SONAE'S & MERCADONA perspective
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published on 16 October 2013
Amad Hafez of Modelo Continente Hipermercados, presents SONAE’s efforts towards minimising the negative environmental impact of F-gases. Furthermore, he addresses the challenge of adopting CO2 technologies in warm climates like in Portugal and Spain. So far SONAE's tests have proved hydrocarbon and CO2 cascade systems to be suitable for warm climates.
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Georgios Patkos - Refrigeration @ Delhaize
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published on 16 October 2013
Georgios Patkos presents Delhaize's refrigeration strategy within the corporate sustainability strategy. Trials have already shown the improvements that are achieved by CO2 transcritical stores. Furthermore Patkos addresses the challenges to adopt CO2 refrigeration technology immediately and provided an outlook on the steps required to further increase the number of Delhaize's CO2 stores.
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Torben M. Hansen - Latest technologies and future trends
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published on 16 October 2013
This presentation demonstrates that natural refrigerant technologies are readily available and that they are reliable, efficient and cost effective when applied to supermarkets. There has been a growing interest in natural refrigeration technologies in central Europe and emerging interest in southern Europe and the industry is ready to supply these solutions.
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Mirko Bernabei - SCM FRIGO 360 Degree natural refrigerant solutions
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published on 16 October 2013
This presentation outlines the various stages of SCM Frigo’s CO2 technology development from 2005 to 2013. It emphasises that safety aspects and training are still a barrier and the industry needs to focus on providing information for customers, contractors and service providers. With legislation focusing more on environmental and efficiency aspects, end users and manufacturers will continue to invest more in natural refrigerant technologies.
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Sergio Girotto - Refrigeration systems using CO2 as the only refrigerant
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published on 16 October 2013
Focusing on CO2 refrigeration in southern European climactic conditions, this presentation shows that with evaporator overfeeding, an AUX compressor and expansion energy recover, 20% to 25% more energy efficiency is possible.
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Stig-Göran Lind - Today and the future for CO2 technology
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published on 16 October 2013
Green & Cool has a long history in producing CO2 products and is now expanding globally and moving towards hot climate solutions. The company's Eco solution incorporates flash gas removal and parallel compression. This presentation highlights a project Green & Cool has been involved with for a Walgreens CO2 store, and also talks about CO2 packs for convenience stores.
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Reinhold Resch - Natural refrigerants for commercial freezers
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published on 16 October 2013
The presentation focuses on AHT’s latest solutions and emphasised the availability of the technology and equipment. Natural refrigerants, including hydrocarbons (R290 and R600a), are viable future options. According to Resch, R290 is the best alternative refrigerant for ice cream cabinets, bottle coolers and commercial freezers.
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ATMOsphere Europe 2013 - Summary report |