Energy efficiency doesn’t only affect the energy usage of your cold rooms, but it also impacts your cold room’s lifespan and longevity. The components of an inefficient cold room must work harder to maintain internal temperatures and conditions, resulting in more wear and tear.
MTCSS are here to help you understand the importance of improving energy efficiency in your cold room and how to do it.
Importance of Cold Room Energy Efficiency
Energy efficiency in your cold rooms and cold storage solutions has multiple impacts – an inefficient cold room can result in increased energy usage, and therefore increased energy costs, and reduction in your cold room’s lifespan.
Why? If your cold room is unable to maintain the internal temperatures required – due to damage to insulation, poor sealing, or poor cold room management – the refrigeration system will have to work harder to keep the air cool. If it has to work harder, it uses more energy – which in turn can increase costs of running and can increase levels of wear and tear, reducing lifespan.
Anything which has an effect on your cold room’s internal temperature – eg. cool air escaping and warm air entering your cold room – can result in your cold room being less efficient. Good cold room maintenance and cold room management can help maintain and improve your cold room’s efficiency and its lifespan.
Energy Saving In Your Cold Room
So now we have explained why energy efficiency within your cold room is important, but how do you promote energy saving and efficiency in your cold rooms?
Cold Room Maintenance and Service
At MTCSS, we recommend your cold room is serviced at least twice a year to ensure there are no ongoing issues or acute problems. But cold room maintenance should be carried out year-round, as and when required. For example, if you notice your cold room door seal or door handle is damaged, it should be repaired and replaced as quickly as possible to reduce the risk of inefficiency and health & safety issues.
Cold room cleaning may not directly impact cold room efficiency, but it is still important to carry out regular cleaning to reduce health and safety risks. Regular cleaning can also help identify issues in your cold room early on.
Cold Room Management
Poor cold room management is another factor which can impact your cold room’s efficiency. If your employees or team members are frequently leaving the cold room door open for extended periods of time, ambient air will enter your cold room, so your refrigeration units will have to work harder to decrease the temperature again.
Overstocking your cold room can also result in inefficient airflow and reduced efficiency of the refrigeration systems. Frequent slamming of cold room doors will result in damaged handles and seals – all of which can result in reduced cold room efficiency.
Cold Room Spares & Parts
Access to cold room parts and spares for your cold room doors can help ensure your cold rooms are repaired quickly, with the least downtime possible. The quicker you identify issues and fix them, the less time your cold room is working inefficiently.
MTCSS offers next day delivery (when items are purchased by 1pm Monday to Friday) on our E-commerce store, UKColdRoomSpares, and we stock a wide a range of parts for cold room, cold room doors, and more! If you aren’t sure what you’re looking for, our expert team can help identify your parts and problems.
If you’d like to discuss how to improve your cold room’s efficiency and save energy, or if you’d like a quote for cold room maintenance and refurbishment – get in touch with the MTCSS team! Speak to one of our experts by calling us on 01886 833381, email us at sales@mtcss.flywheelsites.com, or fill in an enquiry below!
