Chiller Hire
Preserves Food
During Plant Outage
T
he addition of a range of
compact, self-contained
chillers to the Andrews
Chiller hire fleet at the
turn of the century was a timely
introduction and were immediately
called into action as they provided the
perfect, simple, temporary solutions
for organisations forced to take inhouse chillers off-line to up-date in
accordance with new EU regulations
and directives regarding use of HCFCs.
During the past decade many
organisations operating chilled and
cold stores have had to implement
planned maintenance programmes for
a R22 refrigerant swap out or consider
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a more costly option of investing in
totally new plant. Organisations had to
consider whether the converted plant
using refrigerate such as ODS would be
able to deliver and achieve the same
cold-store conditions.
Abiding by the rules, new equipment
using HCFC refrigerants like R22 was
banned from 2001 (or 2004 for small
air-conditioning systems) and since
1st January 2010 the use of virgin
HCFCs to service and maintain existing
refrigeration and air-conditioning (RAC)
equipment was also banned in all EU
Member States. From 1st January
this year it has been illegal to use
any HCFCs to service RAC equipment,
As a major
specialists in
chiller hire, around
70% of Andrews
Chiller work is
solving emergency
situations
hence recycled or reclaimed HCFC may
no longer be used.
Lawful Gains
For chiller hire specialist, Andrews
Chiller Hire, the regulations were to
reap significant rewards particularly in
supporting food related sectors such
as those operating large chilled and
cold stores. Within its chiller hire fleet
it offered the perfect low-cost solution
that would provide a temporary aircooled chilling service during in-house
plant replacement or plant downtime
for conversation to run on refrigerants
such as RA10A.
With its newly acquired Fast Chill range