A comprehensive guide to walk-in cold rooms

The International Institute of Refrigeration (IIR) has collaborated with Efficiency for Access to produce a comprehensive guide to procuring, operating, and maintaining walk-in cold rooms in developing countries.

Walk-in Cold Rooms: A Practitioner’s Technical Guide focuses on the important role cold rooms play in remote communities beyond the reach of supply chains, and the challenges involved in establishing them in such locations. These challenges include unstable power supply, accessibility issues, the need for local training programs, and often extreme weather conditions.

The freely accessible guide also promotes sustainable solutions, including maximising energy efficiency, sourcing renewable energy, and using refrigerants with low global warming potentials (GWPs).

According to the IIR, the guide aims “to present accessible, practical guidance that enables developers, owners, operators and suppliers to specify, install and operate effective and appropriate precoolers and cold rooms that are as economically viable as possible in off-grid, unreliable and limited power supply situations.”

The IIR and Efficiency for Access have also released a freely downloadable overview of the guide.

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