A particular frozen food processing facility uses a once-through cooling process to bring their kettle-cooked productβs temperature down from nearly boiling temperatures to the eighty degree Fahrenheit range. This process is water intensive and facility managers are seeking to reduce their potable water consumption. Sales engineers from Air Treatment Corporation, an HVAC&R manufacturersβ rep, initiated a number of meetings to propose heat rejection solutions and illustrate their associated payback potentials.
This report contains methods of analyzing a food production process, the technical sales process, thermodynamic principles, refrigeration technologies, and the application of technical knowledge to provide a long-term, system solution. To justify the purchase of a system solution, a detailed engineering economic analysis was conducted to account for the time-value of money and equipment specifications.
The goal of this report is to show the potential for monetary savings by combining technical, system solutions with sustainability
