About this presentation

related to ATMOsphere Europe 2012
published on 7 November 2012
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In his presentation, Global Lead Engineer for Refrigeration & HVAC of Unilever, Rene van Gerwen, reiterated that hydrocarbon refrigerant is best suited for ice cream cabinets based on Unilever’s ten years’ usage. According to Unilever, HC cabinets are at least 10 % more energy efficient than HFC equivalents. By 2012, over 1 million HC ice cream cabinets have been installed in every single country that Unilever operates in.

About the speaker(s)

Rene van Gerwen

 

Rene van Gerwen joined Unilever in 2000 where he is responsible for all R & HVAC activities in Unilever, being one of the largest end-users of refrigeration in the world. A major part of his work is related to large industrial refrigeration plants for the production of ice cream, margarines and other chilled/frozen foods, mainly using ammonia as refrigerant, and to plug-in display freezer cabinets for the sales of ice cream. For these cabinets, he developed a global programme for using hydrocarbons as refrigerant. Before joining Unilever, Rene was heading the Department of Refrigeration & Heat Pump Technology in the R&D & Testing Company TNO, where he was working on energy saving, safety, alternative refrigerants & technologies since 1987. Rene has an MSc degree in Mechanical Engineering (Refrigeration & Climate Control) at Delft University of Technology, Netherlands.