The challenge: Recycle waste heat from a R-744 refrigeration system—without disrupting operation As everyone who’s ever been near the business end of a refrigerator or air conditioner knows, keeping things cool produces heat. In a modern supermarket with aisles full of refrigerators and freezers, the amount of heat is significant— and enough to heat the entire supermarket and its hot water if it can be properly recovered.
According to Morten Birkebæk, store manager at MENY’s Fredericia supermarket in Denmark, making better use of waste heat was a “win-win”.
“As a Supermarket Manager with responsibility for the store’s bottom line, I’m of course interested in cutting unnecessary costs whe ...
