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What is refrigeration load?
The refrigeration load
The cooling load on the refrigeration system determines the size of the refrigeration plant and
therefore its power consumption. (It does not affect COP or efficiency: without a refrigeration load
there would be no COP or efficiency.)
The smaller the load, the lower the power consumption. The load is usually made up of a number of
different components. You may be able to be reduce or eliminate one or more of these. In a storage
application (e.g. a cold store or retail cabinet) the load comprises:
heat gains through walls, floor and ceiling;
heat gains from air changes through doors/lids/open fronts;
heat from fan motors, lights and even solar radiation;
heat from pumps and other electrical devices in the cold store;
heat from people and handling equipment, such as fork-lift trucks, which enter the store;
possible heat load from product entering which is at a higher temperature than the storage
temperature. You pay for some of these heat gains twice. For example, you pay to run the evaporator
fan motor, but you also pay for the refrigeration system to remove the heat this puts into the cooled
space. In processing applications, the majority of the heat load is usually from the product that is being
cooled or frozen, although there may be extraneous heat gains as well. More information about
reducing these heat loads is given in GPG 279 Cutting the cost of running your refrigeration plant.
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