RD&T has a great deal of expertise in the interaction between foods and refrigeration systems and so can provide a complete package to help design, troubleshoot and optimise food refrigeration systems.

RD&T have been involved in projects that include:

• heat removal and temperature reducing operations of primary and secondary chilling, freezing and crust freezing
• temperature maintenance operations of chilled and frozen storage, transport, retail display and consumer handling
• thawing and tempering under refrigerated conditions
• optimisation of domestic and commercial refrigerators and freezers
• design, optimisation and testing of commercial refrigerated cabinets
• reducing energy consumption
• troubleshooting refrigeration system problems throughout the cold chain

Often tools are used to help optimise refrigeration systems and refrigeration of food . These tools include computer modelling such as:

• computational fluid dynamics (CFD) for predicting temperatures, airflows, and energy requirements in rooms and refrigerated cabinets
• heat and mass transfer models of foods and cold storage spaces
• refrigeration system models

Our experience, and the combination of modelling and measurement that are used in most of our projects enable us to save our customers considerable time and money.