SolarCool Technology considerably increased the efficiency of the air conditioning within a Pizza Hut franchise. Our product is an innovative, combined technology designed to harvest the free energy from the sun, thus creating thermal energy to better assist the refrigerant compression process.
Customer Situation
A substantially sized Pizza Hut franchise utilising several applications, each consuming large amounts of electricity including: process cooling, freezing, refrigeration and comfort cooling throughout.
Problem
Existing cooling systems failing to achieve temperatures below 82°F Solution Replace the existing 10-ton system with the SolarCool equivalent 10-ton system. Used for comfort cooling; with a target temperature of 77°F
Benefits
- Reduced electricity overheads
- Reduced ongoing equipment maintenance costs
- Extended equipment lifespan
- Reduced CO2 production
- Improved working temperatures
- Increase in staff and customer comfort
Case Study
Air conditioning constitutes one of the largest overhead costs facing a broad spectrum of businesses today, regardless of location and/or industry. Prior to the installation of SolarCool’s innovative system, the kitchen was running at 82°F. This was significantly reduced to temperatures between 74°F and 75°, far surpassing the initial target. Not only has this achieved a more comfortable working environment, the running costs of the air conditioning have been drastically reduced in the process along with CO2 production levels.
The reduction of CO2 production is of paramount importance if Europe is to achieve its ambitious emission reductions, decrease the excessive reliance on imported energy and reduce costs to business and industry. A further aspect adding the commercial viability of SolarCool’s pioneering technology is the ROI timeframes. Considerably lower than most renewable energies, SolarCool boasts ROI’s up to 10-times lower than that of PV & Wind for example.
The existing kitchen 10-ton system was substituted along with the 2 x 5-ton systems situated in the restaurant. A monitoring energy circuit marker recorded readings before and after the installation.
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