Can you imagine a world without refrigeration? We can tell you one thing: it would be very difficult to live in it and many of the things that surround you would be practically non-existent, including your business.
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When we think about preserving products, one of the first solutions that comes to our mind is a refrigerating chamber or a cold room. So, if you want your products to have a longer life, this is what you should know:
A refrigerating chamber or cold room is a warehouse in which a specific temperature is artificially generated. It is generally designed for storing products in an environment below the outside temperature.
Products that need refrigeration include fruits, vegetables, seafood, meat, flowers.
The first cold rooms were called snowfields. This was a well with retaining walls, of small or large dimensions, with openings where snow was introduced, and ice was extracted. The purpose was to keep the ice even if the snow melted.
Cold rooms have been an essential part of the maritime industry since the late nineteenth century. These rooms are in warmer latitudes, where the commercialization of products and the time factor play important roles for the development of specific industries that require very strict quality parameters.
Refrigerating chambers are also used for engineering products, e.g. to store chemicals at an ideal temperature for processing or to slow down chemical reactions (for example, in processes catalyzed by temperatures or in polymers).
Regardless of the products they contain, these rooms are very useful for:
Refrigeration slows chemical and biological processes in food, and controls deterioration and loss of quality. Through storage, the life of fresh perishable foods such as meats, fish, fruits and vegetables can be extended several days by cooling, and several weeks or months by freezing.
When requesting your quotation for a cold room, the refrigeration engineer knows:
The internal temperature depends on the material or product that will be stored. A known application is foods storage for their preservation, such as frozen foods, which are stored at below zero temperatures. Local vegetables and fruits are stored at 0 °C and tropical and subtropical fruits at 5 to 13 °C.
A good design of these rooms considers not only the selection of equipment, but its location for a safe access of the personnel. To ensure a safe access and maneuver into the cold room, it is necessary that contractors, engineers and owners participate in the project to determine the selection of a cooling system determined by analyzing life cycle cost and energy efficiency.
Although it is such a strategic tool for commercial purposes, it is surprising how common bad practices are present in the design and construction of cold rooms. Among others, we have found:
Preserve your products adequately is not an option, but a necessity. By guaranteeing this process, the profits of your company will be greatly benefited. A good start is to define what your needs are and what kind of process you require for your products, to quote not only the right equipment, but a specific and specialized design for your company.