RD&T's Alan Foster is currently spending a month in China working with Professor Ruhe Xie at Guangzhou University.  Professor Xie's work focuses on refrigerated transport and his University has some unique facilities available for research.  One of these is a specialised test facility to simulate containers during transit, in which surrounding air speeds of up to 80 mph can be produced.  Alan is currently working with the team in Guangzhou to carry out tests on infiltration into containers and to model the effects of infiltration using Computational Fluid Dynamics.

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At RD&T we generally design, develop and test refrigeration systems.  However, a new project recently extended our work into an area far flung from engineering.  Ed Hammond was approached by Sarah Wilton an art student from UWE (University of the West of England).  She had the idea of developing a refrigerated piece of art as part of her art degree.

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The Food Refrigeration and Process Engineering Research Centre (FRPERC) has long been established as the leading research centre in the UK for work on refrigeration and food.  When the University of Bristol decided to close FRPERC at the end of July 2009 there was general shock within the UK refrigeration industry.  The group contained over 200 years of experience and was a valuable source of knowledge gained over many years as part of the Meat Research Institute, AFRC Institute of Food Research and latterly as part of the University of Bristol.

Members of FRPERC have now set up a company to preserve the knowledge base and continue the refrigeration work carried out at FRPERC.

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