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What is Cold Store

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Handbook of Research on Computational Simulation and Modeling in Engineering
Cold stores have the function of storing a product at the correct temperature and to prevent quality loss. All chilled and frozen food and temperature controlled pharmaceutical products are stored in a cold store at least once from production to the consumer. Chilled stores generally maintain products at temperatures between -1 and 10 ºC whereas frozen stores generally maintain product at below -18 ºC. The cold store market varies from small stores of 10–20 m 3 up to large warehouses of >100 m 3 .
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Computational Modelling and Simulation to Assist the Improvement of Thermal Performance and Energy Efficiency in Industrial Engineering Systems: Application to Cold Stores
Pedro Dinis Gaspar (University of Beira Interior, Portugal), Pedro Dinho da Silva (University of Beira Interior, Portugal), João Pedro Marques Gonçalves (University of Beira Interior, Portugal), and Rui Carneiro (University of Beira Interior, Portugal)
Copyright: © 2016 |Pages: 68
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-8823-0.ch001
Abstract
Computational modelling is nowadays a powerful tool for project and design of engineering systems, anticipating and/or correcting problems that may lead to inefficiencies. This chapter describes three distinct computational tools with different mathematical and numerical models. The computational tools are used with the purpose of improving the thermal and energy performance of cold stores. All tools are applied to the same agrifood company. First, Computational Fluid Dynamics is used to optimize velocity and temperature fields for the interior a cold room. Afterwards, an energy analysis and thermal load simulation is performed to the cold store facility to reduce its thermal loads. Finally, a statistical prediction model based on empirical correlations is used to predict the energy performance of the cold store and compare it to an average behaviour. The numerical results indicate the improvement of the thermal performance and consequently of food safety, as well as considerable energy savings that can be achieved in cold stores by the combined use of different modelling techniques.
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