Food industry cooling with Seeley International solutions
When machineries' heat load is too high, evaporative cooling can be the best choice
Food industry cooling
Seeley International’s Food Industry Cooling Units provide a highly efficient and sustainable solution to maintain the optimal temperature and humidity levels in food manufacturing and storage environments. Specifically designed for the food industry, these advanced cooling systems offer control over temperature and humidity, which is essential for preserving food quality while reducing energy consumption and minimizing environmental impact.
Installing a fixed cooling system in your food manufacturing facility ensures a stable, controlled environment, optimizing the production process and preserving the integrity of your products. This system not only improves operational efficiency but also delivers significant long-term savings. By utilizing an energy-efficient, eco-friendly cooling solution, you can reduce energy costs, enhance product quality, and lower your environmental footprint.
Discover how this innovative cooling solution can streamline your production processes, enhance product quality, and support a more sustainable business.
Energy efficient
Low-cost cooling solution
Ideal for food processing environments
Improved Indoor Air Quality (IAQ)
Sustainable solution
High scalability
Benefits for Food industry Cooling
Optimal Air Quality: Ensures a steady flow of fresh, filtered air while maintaining precise humidity control, crucial for food production and storage. This reduces contamination, odors, and harmful airborne particles, creating a healthier environment for both staff and products.
Energy Efficiency: Reduces energy consumption compared to conventional cooling systems, resulting in lower utility bills, making it a highly cost-effective choice for food manufacturing operations.
Cost-Effective: With minimal maintenance requirements and low operational costs, this cooling solution offers long-term savings while keeping conditions ideal for food processing and storage.
Eco-Friendly: Utilizes natural airflow and water to cool spaces, minimizing environmental impact and contributing to sustainability efforts within your facility.
Improved Product Integrity: Maintains consistent temperature and humidity levels, ensuring the quality and safety of food products throughout production and storage while supporting optimal working conditions for staff.
Premium quality evaporative cooling solutions by Seeley International are perfect for food processing industry cooling
Success stories in the food industry
Granarolo, a major Italian dairy company, struggled with high summer temperatures at its Soliera plant, which lacked a cooling system. This led to over 150 workers needing breaks every few hours to get fresh air, causing low productivity and dissatisfaction. To solve this, the company decided to install Breezair TBA 550 Evaporative Coolers, supplied and installed by Italkero. The system, which cools the entire production area with 100% fresh air, uses insulated ducts to distribute the cooled air. The Breezair units not only improved worker comfort and productivity but also reduced running costs compared to traditional air conditioning systems. Additionally, their eco-friendly design, using no chemical refrigerants, aligned with Granarolo’s commitment to sustainability.
DuToit Cherries in South Africa installed 18 Climate Wizard units to cool their packing facility, ensuring optimal conditions for cherries, which require specific temperature and humidity levels. Conventional air conditioning was unsuitable due to its drying effect, so the company chose Climate Wizard’s energy-efficient, indirect evaporative cooling system. The system’s reliability and energy efficiency were key factors in the decision, as any disruption in cooling could slow down the fast-paced packing process. The system’s redundancy ensures continuous operation, supporting the facility’s efficient operation.
Evaporative Cooling Applications
Evaporative air conditioning has a wide range of cooling applications
Evaporative cooling is an ideal solution for food industry cooling, where maintaining consistent temperature and humidity levels is crucial for preserving product quality and optimizing food production processes. This system enhances air quality by supplying 100% fresh, filtered outside air, improving ventilation and reducing CO2 and VOC levels. It effectively manages both temperature and humidity, creating the perfect environment for food storage and processing, ensuring optimal conditions for product integrity while maintaining a comfortable space for staff and workers.
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The evaporative air conditioning unit is a cost-effective cooling solution, ideal for industries, factories, warehouses, and large-format retail spaces. It provides efficient cooling while using up to 80% less energy than refrigerated systems, making it particularly effective in high-traffic areas where doors are frequently opened and closed.
Evaporative cooling is well-suited for various sectors, including technical cooling, textiles, plastics, pharmaceuticals, and commercial spaces, as it provides numerous benefits for Indoor Air Quality (IAQ). These include continuous fresh air circulation, natural air filtration through cooling pads, and the reduction of pollutants, dust, and odors. By adding moisture to the air, it helps control humidity, preventing dryness, dust, and static electricity. Unlike traditional HVAC systems, evaporative cooling doesn’t recirculate air, preventing the buildup of harmful gases. This results in a healthier work environment, enhancing comfort, reducing respiratory irritation, and increasing worker productivity.
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Industrial air conditioning unit Frequently Asked Questions
- Evaporative air conditioners (coolers) are excellent for health
- They supply 100% fresh, filtered air into your building that is not recirculated, improving Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) of the space, supporting customer and staff well-being
- They remove unhealthy pollution from your indoor environment
- They provide basic moisture that the human body needs
- They remove static electricity; they can assist in reducing the effects of illnesses such as asthma.
A high inlet water temperature does not have a marked effect on the supply temperature of Seeley International’s evaporative air conditioners.
Yes. Outdoor areas have no walls to contain the cool air. These spaces would be impossible to cool using refrigerated air conditioning because this relies on recirculating and reusing air from a sealed area. Evaporative air conditioners (coolers) can easily supply a flow of fresh and cool air to open and semi open areas since the air is exhausted naturally.
In most cases evaporative air conditioners (coolers) marginally increase humidity, keeping in mind that temperature has also dropped significantly. It is the combination of temperature, humidity and airflow that creates human comfort and evaporative air conditioners are used widely around the world because they can create comfortable conditions. For example, 80% humidity and 30°C (86°F) is very uncomfortable, but 80% humidity and 16°C (61°F) is very comfortable. Comfort is also improved by increasing air velocity in hot conditions and evaporative air conditioners create sufficient air movement to minimise the effects of humidity.
Air inside the building collects heat, moisture and impurities and must be exhausted. The evaporative air conditioner (cooler) provides 100% outside air which must be relieved from the building. If the building is sealed, the effectiveness of the cooler(s) will be reduced. Mechanical extraction or even just leaving some doors or windows open helps remove unhealthy air from the indoor environment by supplying 100% fresh, filtered air. For this reason, evaporative air conditioners (coolers) are much healthier than refrigerated air conditioning.
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Food industry cooling with evaporative cooling system
From small production facilities to large manufacturing plants, Seeley International evaporative coolers are designed to meet the diverse cooling needs of specific industries, such as the food industry, where maintaining optimal temperature and humidity is essential for product quality and safety.