Cold storage
In a typical food cold store, well over half of the electricity goes to the refrigeration plant — that plant rarely runs the way it was commissioned — we close that gap
Typical split for a UAE chilled and frozen store — your own metering replaces these with real numbers
Per cent of site electricity, typical, illustrative Figures on this page are typical or illustrative ranges from our method, not audited results for a named site — your own baseline sets the real numbers
The story of a cold store runs in a circle — here it is in the order the refrigerant meets each part
The largest single load — its start count and running pressure decide both the bill and its lifespan
Every door opening and failed seal lets warm, humid air in — that moisture becomes frost
Throws the heat outside — a dirty coil or a fixed setpoint makes the compressor work harder
Back at the compressors: which one runs, at what load, and how often it starts
Frost on the coil blocks heat pickup, so the plant runs longer to do the same job
Makes all of the above visible in one walk-round, with temperatures on every pixel
Corrections made one at a time, verified against the baseline
Equipment and compressor tuningEvery cold store is a loop — the evaporator pulls heat out of the room, the compressor lifts it to a higher pressure, the condenser throws it outside and the cycle starts again — each stage can waste energy in its own way
Product, panels and doors — heat leaks in through every gap
Worn door seals, open dock doors and degraded panel joints let warm, humid air in — it turns to frost and the plant works harder all day
What we do Thermal-camera envelope scan, seal repair, door interlocks
Lifts refrigerant pressure — the biggest electrical load on site
Poor sequencing means machines start and stop far more than needed, run partly loaded, or run against a higher pressure than the day requires
What we do Staging and sequencing review, suction pressure reset, start counting
Rejects heat to outdoor air — fans and coils set the head pressure
Fouled coils, blocked airflow and a fixed head-pressure setpoint push compressor power up, most of all on cooler nights when it could be lower
What we do Coil cleaning, fan control, floating head pressure
Coil and fans inside the room that absorb heat from the air
Frost on the coil, timer-based defrost and fans that never slow down add heat to the room and then charge you to remove it
What we do Demand-based defrost, fan control, superheat check
These are the findings we expect to meet in a UAE cold store — impact ranges are typical, not promised: your meters decide
Typical impact Capacity loss and extra runtime
Typical impact Compressor power up with every degree of extra condensing temperature
Typical impact Roughly 2 to 3 per cent compressor power per degree of reduction
Typical impact Fewer starts per hour, less wear
Typical impact Less latent load and less frost
Typical impact Less heater energy, less heat dumped into the room
Typical impact Fire and unplanned-outage risk, plus resistive loss
Typical impact Fan power and fan heat both fall
Typical impact Lower demand charges with no change in kWh
Pipework that looks fine in daylight can be shedding cold along its whole length — drag to see the difference
Energy gets the attention, but the mechanical outcome is often worth more — fewer starts, lower discharge temperature and a lower pressure ratio are what extend overhaul intervals
Proper staging and sequencing cut the stress cycles that wear contactors and bearings
Clean condensers and the right charge keep discharge temperature down
Floating head pressure lets the compressor work against less
Thermal trending flags bearings and motors before they fail
A 6,400 cubic metre frozen store with four compressors — illustrative figures, normalised for ambient temperature and stored volume
For validated cold rooms, product safety comes first — we never change anything inside a qualified range without your quality team’s approval, and use metering and thermography mainly to find waste in the plant around the room
The physics is the same everywhere — the load, the doors and the hours are not
Blast freezers, low-temperature stores, dock areas
Process cooling, chilled water and CIP cycles
Chilling, cutting halls and cold-chain distribution
Validated 2 to 8 °C rooms where stability matters more than anything
Multi-temperature warehouses with constant door traffic
No — metering uses clamp-on sensors and the thermal survey is contactless — in fact the plant has to be running under normal load for the readings to mean anything, so we plan around your shifts, including nights
One to three days on site depending on size, then five to seven working days to deliver the report — a permanent monitoring install takes about half a day
No — we are not tied to any manufacturer — many of the savings we find need no purchase at all: setpoints, schedules, control logic and seals — when hardware is justified we say so and you buy it from whoever you prefer
Then we tell you on the first call, before anyone visits — under Shared Savings the question never arises, because no verified saving means no fee
Yes — your data stays on your dashboard and is never shared — we will sign an NDA before the first site visit if you ask
The whole UAE: Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Sharjah, Ajman, Ras Al Khaimah, Al Ain and Fujairah — we travel to site
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One call of about twenty minutes — we work out whether there is enough on the table to justify a site visit, and tell you plainly if there is not