San Jose and Cupertino Area Home Break-ins Up
I sat thinking for a while before writing this blog [...]
New Use For Swamp Cooler – as a Chilled Water Loop
When working at a building in Sunnyvale, CA we were planning to place a new chiller and chilled water loop in operation for a customer, while there we ran across the equipment pad and saw the equipment in the photo below. We weren’t sure whether to be in awe of the cleverness of the designer for this equipment configuration or wonder why something like this was created. What you see in this picture is a car radiator married to a swamp cooler and the swamp cooler blows cooled air through it. In the San Francisco bay area of California the swamp cooler will cool the ambient air 15 degrees. This means that if it is 90 degrees outside – the air out of the swamp cooler will be 75 degrees.
What Do Frog’s Balls have in Common with Wine Bottling? Photo
By Kent Penning – Refrigeration Specialist, Wine Lover Martin Ranch [...]
Keep it the Perfect Temperature – Time to Consider Your AC
It's 2012 and the first day of spring is March [...]
Wine Cellar Cooling Systems: How to Protect your Collection
By Kent Penning This is a story of a wine [...]
Grocer Reduces Energy Consumption – Green Grocer
Since this equipment is used for food it is important to run continuously throughout the day with a total running time of 16 to 18 hours a day. Reducing the horsepower on the compressor to cool these cases by 1 horsepower is one way to reduce energy consumption. The changing of the refrigerant helps in this area too. The old refrigerant required that a head cooling fan run and the new Bitzer compressor does not need this head cooling fan with this refrigerant. The lower horsepower and refrigerant change is resulting in the grocer experiencing lower energy consumption and thus lower operating expense. Pete Russell, the Bitzer Compressor Rep promoted how smooth and well balanced the Bitzer compressors are. As with all sales claims, we didn’t believe that there would be much of a difference compared to other compressors. The technician and I were impressed as to how smooth the Bitzer compressor was, actually because it was so quiet we were skeptical if the unit was operating, so we placed our hand on the compressor to verify that it was indeed running.
