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Cold Stores

Cold stores and refrigerated storage have become an increasingly important aspect of the food supply chain. It is also an area where Insulation problems can be encountered.

Typical insulation problems encountered are:

  • Defective or sub-standard insulation.
  • Defective cavity wall insulation.

With today's modern building technologies and regulations, these anomalies are more likely to appear in older structures. However, sometimes structural movement or accidents that perforate the fabric of the insulation (with fork lift trucks) can contribute to damage that will effect insulation efficiency. This could have energy cost implications over a period of time.

ID Dynamics™ offer a national maintenance service for cold store manufacturers and their clients (excluding N. Ireland) to identify some of the anomalies illustrated below.

COLD STORE INSIDE EMERGENCY DOOR

Cold Store emergency exit seen from the inside.
  Thermogram indicates that trace heating tape is functioning correctly.

Figure 1.20
Figure 1.21

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Figure 1.20 shows the inside of a door in a cold store. Notice the trace heating tape, figure 1.21, functioning correctly preventing the door seals from heating up.

INSULATION PROBLEMS - ENERGY WASTAGE

Cold store ceiling deficiency.
  Thermogram clearly shows an ineffective seal allowing warmer air to penetrate the Cold Store.

Figure 1.22
Figure 1.23

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Figure 1.22 shows the ceiling of the cold store. The thermagram, figure 1.23 illustrates a section of substandard insulation. The warm section (in red and white) is approx.150m². The ambient temperature inside the cold store was approx. -25°C while a section of the roof was found to have an average temperature of -11°C. In order to maintain the temperature inside the cold store at -25°C, an extra 9.7kW of energy is required.

COLD STORE OUTSIDE WALL - SEEN FROM OUTSIDE

Cold Store wall seen from the outside.
  From indicated temperatures it's possible ice is present inside the wall.

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Figures 1.24 and 1.25 show a corner of a cold store building. From the temperature readings in figure 1.25 it is possible that ice is present inside the wall. It will be necessary to remove the damaged insulation and rebuild the damaged section of the wall.

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ID Dynamics offer a competitive U.K annual maintenance agreement for cold store manufacturers and their clients. If this is an area which affects your business or you are interested in any other sector of thermography, simply fill out the form below:

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