Super Cool Success - Chilled Unit Energy Saver Sale
Hello fellow blog readers, I just had to share with you this report that landed on my desk this week, it makes for some very exciting reading! Just goes to show that our Chilled Unit Energy Saver products can work wonders and at the same time make a great sale. In the interests of honesty I have copied in the report below as written ‘warts and all’, enjoy!
FRUTAS ESCANDELL, S.A. in Barcelona (Spain) is a third generation business in the food sector. They are dealing with fruit for more than 30 years, purchasing from farmers and selling to distributors and/or final customers.
Needless to say that fruit is a very sensitive product to store, as it has be chilled enough to avoid early maturation as well as taking care of not to freeze it, what might cause irreparable damage to the goods.
Chilled Unit Energy Saver
When we explained to the owner, Mr Vicente Escandell, how Chilled Unit Energy Saver could help him to save energy, he immediately agreed to run a free trial in one of his 4 walk in Chiller rooms. This Chiller was set up with a two compressor DWM COPELAND D3DS - 1.500
First of all we installed an Eniscope to analyze for one week the consumptions of the installation. As a result of this monitoring, we found out that one of the compressors wasn’t working properly. The Real-Time display showed us that the Power demand didn’t reach the required level, so they have to call to the maintenance company to sort this out: there was a gas leak in one of the compressors and the security system had stopped the engine for nobody knew how long.
Once repaired, we also discovered a 3 kWh latent consumption every time the refrigeration cycle stopped. That was caused because the fans of the evaporator where running in manual, so we put them in automatic to avoid this energy leak:
So, once we were sure that the installation was running properly we fitted the Chilled Unit Energy Saver unit into the temperature sensor, increasing in 1º C the paramater of temperature. During the first hours we also took temperatures of the stored fruit (strawberries) to make the customer feel confident that nothing was going to happen to the merchandise.
By simply having a look to the graphs, we can notice that the amount of energy saved is amazing. Considering that Chilled Unit Energy Saver was installed on 11th january, we can conclude that:
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Average kWh before having the installation repaired: 300 kWh/working day – 200 kWh/wknd
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Average kWh with the installation running properly: 230 kWh/working day – 120 kWh/wknd (24%-40% savings due to maintenance operation)
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Average kWh with Chilled Unit Energy Saver: 170 kWh/working day – 70 kWh/wknd (26%-40% savings)
Analytics
In terms of ROI, we are talking about 12 months for the Eniscope and 3 months for CUES.
The customer is now happy with both the Eniscope and the Chilled Unit Energy Saver solution and is going to set up the other three Chillers with it.
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Now thats what I call a super cool success, more to come here at Enigin Sales Blog
