When it comes to the chest freezer, it’s the handiest appliance available in the market these days. If you’re running a retail outlet, then you need an industrial chest freezer as it provides you sufficient space to store a diverse range of products at optimum temperature.
Although an upright freezer might provide enough storage space to store frozen products for a small family, an industrial chest freezer is one of the most useful products available in the market today, and it can even save you money in the long-run. Large chest freezer allows you ample space to take advantage of storing meat in bulks along with the seasonal jams, berries, daily perishable food items and make ahead meals. But how can you make your industrial chest freezers energy efficient?
What Makes Industrial Chest Freezers Consumes More Energy?
When it comes to convenience stores, supermarts and retail outlets the significant amount of the total energy used by the refrigeration appliances including chest freezers is almost 65 percent, and it is just due to the ‘air curtains’ (the cold air pockets blown across the freezer’s face to keep it fresh).
These effects ultimately make refrigerated cabinets expensive to run and also cause ‘cold-aisle-syndrome.’ These days, almost each contemporary industrial chest freezer comes with air curtains, and as they are present at the front of the freezer, they leak out, which causes the freezer to work regularly to restore the cold air lost. Because of this, retailers bear hefty energy bills, which is almost equivalent to 60 per cent of the total energy cost.
How To Make An Industrial Chest Freezer Energy Efficient?
To overcome the problem of ever-increasing bills; several companies offer an ideal solution with the name of ‘Aerofoils’ with which you can do massive energy savings. A time came, when most of the retailers started thinking to retrofit glass doors to combat this issue. For some, it seems to a good option, but for others, it wasn’t, especially because of the high initial outlay, regular cleaning, and repairs and the physical obstruction among customers perhaps decreasing their spend/transaction.
By the end of 2014, researchers discovered a new technology with which you can save up to 20-31 percent on energy bills but without glass sliding doors. They named this invention as ‘Aerofoil strip,’ which is easily fixable on your refrigeration equipment and shelves. The final design of these Aerofoil strips was at last released for sale last year, and it was declared as a finalist at the renowned RAC Cooling Industry Awards. After this commendable success, Aerofoils were rapidly ordered and fixed by almost all the great UK retailers. At present, dozens of national retailers already fixed Aerofoils to their industrial chest freezers and certainly these are the next big thing in plummeting energy consumption and a common practice throughout all UK retail stores.
Aerofoils were independently tried and tested by RD&T Bristol and verify that it helps to reduce air curtain spillage while diminishing the ‘cold aisle effect’ and save energy costs of up to 30 percent. On the other hand, aerofoils also help in reducing ‘hot spots’ and ‘freezing-spots’ while extending the product shelf-life. It has a simple design with no food traps. It also offers easy cleaning and easily fitted to any industrial chest freezer. You don’t need to remove the shelves of the chest freezer to retrofit aerofoils. Just fix and start energy-saving today! Moreover, aerofoils offer a customer-friendly solution to your business as they hardly know aerofoils are even there. It’s a low-cost solution saving 70-80 per cent than retrofitting glass doors.
