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COMMERCIAL & INDUSTRIAL COLD ROOMS
A cold room, also known as walk-in cold storage, is a temperature-controlled space designed to preserve perishable and temperature-sensitive goods by maintaining precise environmental conditions. These facilities are vital across a range of industries, including food retail, pharmaceuticals, medical applications, breweries, chemicals, hospitality, and fishing. In cold chain logistics, cold storage containers are essential for ensuring the quality and safety of temperature-sensitive shipments. The refrigeration system is the cornerstone of a cold room, enabling efficient heat removal while maintaining consistent low temperatures and humidity levels. The design of these facilities requires reliable and energy-efficient components to function effectively. Depending on the type and temperature range of the cold room, both refrigerated and frozen goods can be stored to meet specific storage needs.
Cold Room Refrigeration Systems
An efficient refrigeration system is essential for maintaining product quality and extending shelf life, which are critical for ensuring consumer safety and maximising profitability. Poor refrigeration can result in product spoilage and contamination, posing health risks to consumers and disrupting productivity. Cold rooms come in various types, tailored for temperature-controlled storage. The design and specifications of a cold room depend on the required size and temperature parameters, ensuring optimal performance for specific storage needs.
Types of Refrigerated Cold Rooms
Positive Temperature Cold Rooms/ Storage Cold Rooms
Storage cold rooms are essentially large refrigerators, designed to maintain temperatures between 0 and 10 ºC and therefore referred to as positive temperature cold rooms. Refrigerated storage rooms are commonly used to store short term perishable goods such as fruits, vegetables, eggs, beverages, flowers and pharmaceuticals.
Negative Temperature Cold Rooms/ Freezer Rooms
Walk in freezer rooms, referred to as negative temperature cold rooms, are designed to store products at subzero temperatures, often as low as -28ºC. Typical products that require frozen storage include food items, fresh foods, ready prepared foods, beverages, vaccines, and organic materials.
Blast Freezers/ Blast Chillers
Walk in blast freezer cold rooms otherwise referred to as shock freezers or blast chillers, can reach temperatures as low as -60 ºC. They are designed to provide rapid freezing to large quantities of temperature sensitive goods such as perishable foods, biological pharmaceuticals, chemicals and laboratory samples. Rapid freezing prevents the contamination of goods and maintains fresh quality for consumer use. They are used within food processing to rapidly cool cooked foods, to speed up packaging and dispatch times.
Rising population and an increase in global online consumers has led to the continuing growth of industries that require the use of cold rooms. An increase in the global trade of perishable and temperature sensitive products across several industries has led to the increasing demand for cold rooms and, on a larger scale, refrigerated warehouses.
Cold Room Design
When designing a cold room, it is crucial to adhere to all relevant safety and health standards to ensure stored products will remain fit for human consumption. Cold rooms that are designed to store food products must comply with food hygiene laws which regulate the required temperatures of stored food.
Designers and engineers of these facilities face increasing pressure to reduce the energy consumption and operational costs of these facilities whilst ensuring they work effectively for the intended purpose.
Choose A Component Partner with Refrigeration System Design Expertise
Collaborating with experienced suppliers helps designers to navigate the complexities, of refrigeration system design, enabling businesses to implement high-performing, compliant cold room systems that meet environmental and operational standards. At Axair Refrigeration, we specialise in supporting the design, development, and supply of refrigeration systems tailored to your unique needs. Whether you're planning a new cold room, or upgrading an existing facility, our expertise ensures optimal performance, energy efficiency, and compliance with industry standards.
We offer key refrigeration cycle components that effective cold room refrigeration system designs are based around, including these core components:
- Compressor: Pressurises the refrigerant, starting the cooling cycle.
- Condenser: Removes heat from the refrigerant, converting it into a liquid state.
- Expansion Valve: Regulates refrigerant flow into the evaporator.
- Evaporator: Absorbs heat, creating a cold environment.
These components work together to maintain precise temperature control. For in-depth details, contact us for personalised guidance.
