Cold Storage Rooms are insulated rooms designed to maintain a stable, low temperature for storing perishable food items and other sensitive products. They are specifically built to extend the shelf life of products by controlling temperature and humidity, ensuring that items like food, pharmaceuticals, and flowers are preserved in optimal conditions.
Refrigeration Warehouses, on the other hand, are large-scale cold storage facilities used for storing large quantities of goods. These warehouses have different temperature zones, allowing for the storage of products at varying temperatures based on the type of product and the specific application. They are ideal for bulk storage in industries like food processing, pharmaceuticals, and logistics, where large volumes need to be stored and maintained at specific temperatures.
Features of Cold Storage Rooms and Refrigeration Warehouses:
- Prolonging Product Life: Helps slow down the spoilage process and maintains the quality of products for a longer period.
- Preserving Nutritional Value: Helps retain vitamins, minerals, and other essential nutrients in products.
- Reducing and Controlling Losses: Helps minimize food waste by slowing down the spoilage of products.
- Improving Food Safety: Helps prevent the growth of bacteria and harmful microorganisms (depending on the product and storage requirements).
Types of Cold Storage Rooms and Refrigeration Warehouses:
- Cold Rooms: Used for storing fresh food products such as fruits, vegetables, meat, and dairy.
- Freezer Rooms: Used for storing frozen products like fish, chicken, and frozen vegetables.
- Cold and Freezing Rooms: Used for storing a variety of food products at different temperatures "within a specific thermal range."
Factors to Consider When Choosing Cold Storage Rooms and Refrigeration Warehouses:
- Type of Product to Be Stored: The room temperature should be suitable for the type of product being stored.
- Size of the Product to Be Stored: The cold storage room should have enough space to store the required or expected quantity of the product.
- Project Features: The cost of cold storage rooms and warehouses varies depending on size, type, and additional features such as insulation, equipment type, and its quality.
Cold Storage Rooms / Freezer Rooms & Refrigeration and Freezing Warehouses
Types of Cold Storage Rooms and Refrigeration Warehouses
Portable Cold Room / Refrigerated Trucks and Vans / Refrigerated Transportation
Portable Cold Storage, represented by refrigerated containers found in trucks, whether large or small.
Cold rooms and cold storage warehouses dedicated for storage.
They are closed buildings, insulated from the external environment in terms of heat exchange, equipped with a high-efficiency cooling system with high capacity for cooling and freezing to the required temperatures.
Refrigeration rooms and cold storage warehouses designated for display
Portable cold storage refers to refrigerated containers found in trucks, whether large or small.
The main components of cold rooms and refrigeration and freezing warehouses include
Internal refrigeration units ( evaporator )
Evaporators (as they are called in this field) are one of the most important components of refrigeration and freezing rooms. Their function is to absorb heat from the air inside the room and perform a heat exchange with the refrigerant liquid inside internal pipes, causing the refrigerant to turn into gas as it absorbs heat.
External cooling units for cold rooms.
- These are called "condensing units" and commonly referred to as "cooling units." They contain a compressor, which compresses the refrigerant gas and then converts it into a refrigerant liquid through condensation as it passes through the condenser.
- Heat exchange in the condenser is done either by air (fans) or cold water (pipes).
- They come in various types and sizes for multiple applications such as cooling, freezing, and cooling/freezing, depending on the required cooling capacity and the suitable heat exchange method. These include air-cooled condensing units and water-cooled condensing units.
Cold Room Doors
- They are used to prevent warm air from entering the cold room.
- Made from insulating materials such as polyurethane and polyethylene, with varying thicknesses depending on the specific cooling or freezing application.
- Available in different types, such as hinged cold room doors and sliding cold room doors.
