The use of CFD to improve the performance of a chilled multi-deck retail display cabinet

Alan Foster; Judith Evans

doi:10.1016/j.ijrefrig.2004.12.009

The use of CFD to improve the performance of a chilled multi-deck retail display cabinet

Alan Foster, Judith Evans

Mechanical Engineering and Design

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Abstract

Maintaining food temperatures below critical values is the key to maximising the high quality display life of chilled foods. Studies were carried out to see if computational fluid dynamic (CFD) modelling could be used to rapidly identify the changes that would be required to an existing multi-deck display cabinet so that it would meet a higher test specification. Implementing the changes on a Pastorfrigor MV 200TP display cabinet reduced the average power consumption from 1.37 to 1.29 kW as well as significantly reducing the number of test packs which spent any time above 4 °C, from 12 to 1. © 2005 Elsevier Ltd and IIR. All rights reserved.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	698-705
Journal	International Journal of Refrigeration
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijrefrig.2004.12.009
Publication status	Published - 1 Aug 2005

Keywords

performance
09 Engineering
air curtain
modelling
display cabinet
CFD
Mechanical Engineering & Transports

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