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Refrigeration Developments and Testing Ltd.

RD&T offers a unique service that transfers research knowledge into industrial projects. RD&T carries out innovative work on food refrigeration, refrigeration development, cabinet testing, and heat and mass transfer.  The company involves Judith Evans, Tim Brown and Alan Foster.

Services include design and testing of domestic, commercial and retail refrigeration systems. We can help at all stages from initial concept to development of prototypes to final optimisation and testing. RD&T combines the use of advanced mathematical modelling tools with practical design knowledge and skills to provide expert applied solutions.

RD&T offer a comprehensive package of services that cover design to testing:

  1. Design from concept or idea
  2. Development of a prototype or demonstrator
  3. Testing and final confirmation of performance

    Latest News & Updates

    BBC 'world of freezing'

    11th May 2012

    The 'world of freezing' was featured on the BBC One Show earlier this week. The programme featured the UK's largest cold store in Wisbech which is fully automated. The technical content of the programme was excellent and provided viewers with information on what happens to food when it is frozen and how quality and safety change when food is frozen. The programme also demonstrated why larger cold stores should be more efficient than smaller stores.

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    New case studies

    28th Jun 2011

    At RD&T we regularly work with companies to help them test and develop products or to help them produce product more efficiently. Recently RD&T have worked with Pure Cold, Clark Doors, apetito and Union Industries to help them develop products or processes:

    Pure Cold -a retail display manufacturer. RD&T helped develop an energy efficient and low temperature multi-deck cabinet.

    Clark Doors - a manufacturer of a novel rapid roll cold store door that RD&T helped test and develop.

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    Minimum energy standards proposed

    19th Nov 2010

    The Energy Related Products Framework Directive (formerly known as the Energy Using Products Directive) will develop MEPS (Minimum Energy Performance Standards) for a number of refrigerated appliances. . Work to develop MEPS has been carried out under a number of tasks called ‘lots’. The latest information from Lot 1 dealing with refrigerating and freezing equipment (including commercial service cabinets, blast chiller/freezer cabinets, walk-in cold rooms, industrial process chillers and packaged condensing units) is now available.

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    Our Services Logo
    • Retail and commercial cabinet testing
    • Refrigeration system development
    • Test packages
    • Mathematical modelling
    • Design and optimisation
    • Energy reduction
    Design
    A design service to identify the key issues surrounding a new design, find the best options and incorporate them into a design package.

    Develop
    Develop the design into something tangible, build a prototype and optimise performance.

    Testing (retail/commercial/ECA)
    Test to prove performance of equipment to an BS/EN/ISO standard and obtain accreditation.