Various Methods to Improve Energy Efficiency in Industrial Refrigerators

Year 2024, Volume: 10 Issue: 1, 38 - 59, 30.04.2024

Buğra Şensoy , Mustafa Aktaş

Abstract

Effective and efficient energy consumption, environmental sensitivities, climate change, and global warming are significant issues that the world is currently focusing on. Industrial refrigerators are the devices that have significant effects under the mentioned headings. Environmental sensitivities should be valued when improving innovative designs for effective and efficient energy consumption in industrial refrigerators. Moreover, with both international and national regulations recently, designs to be made at this point have become an obligation rather than a necessity. This study aims to use energy effectively and efficiently, creating an energy efficiency factor in industrial refrigerators; various aspects, such as components, insulation, refrigerant, control technique, ambient conditions, cooling cycle, and airflow were studied from different perspectives and grouped, and the outputs obtained as a result of the studies were compiled. The grouped and compiled outputs were presented title-based and optimum solutions in terms of energy efficiency were discussed. The presented outputs will be used as effective design inputs in the studies carried out by researchers and product manufacturers, thus, as a result of innovative studies that create energy efficiency, designs with substantial environmental sensitivity, especially carbon emissions, will emerge. In addition, it thought that innovative and efficient designs would make direct and indirect contributions to the economy.

Keywords

Industrial refrigerator, Energy consumption, Opportunities for energy efficiency, Thermal insulation, Eco design

Endüstriyel Soğutucularda Enerji Verimliliğini Arttırmaya Yönelik Çeşitli Yöntemler

Abstract

Enerjinin etkin ve verimli kullanılması, çevresel hassasiyetler, iklim değişimi ve küresel ısınma güncel olarak tüm dünyanın üzerinde durduğu önemli başlıklardır. Endüstriyel soğutucular da bahsedilen başlıklar içinde önemli etkilere sahip cihazlardır. Endüstriyel soğutucularda enerjinin etkin ve verimli kullanımına ilişkin yenilikçi tasarımlar geliştirirken çevresel hassasiyetler de göz ardı edilmemelidir. Ayrıca, son zamanlarda gerek uluslararası gerekse de ulusal düzenlemelerle bu noktada yapılacak tasarımlar gereklilikten ziyade bir zorunluluk haline gelmiştir. Enerjinin etkin ve verimli kullanılmasını amaç edinen bu çalışmada, endüstriyel soğutucularda enerji verimliliği unsuru yaratan; komponentler, yalıtım, soğutucu akışkan, kontrol tekniği, ortam şartları, soğutma çevrimi ve hava akışı bazlı farklı perspektifteki çalışmalar incelenerek gruplandırılmış ve çalışmalar sonucunda ortaya konulan çıktılar derlenmiştir. Gruplandırılan ve derlenen çıktılar başlık temelli sunularak enerji verimliliği açısından optimum çözümler tartışılmıştır. Sunulan çıktılar, araştırmacı ve ürün üreticilerinin gerçekleştirecekleri çalışmalarda etkin tasarım girdileri olarak kullanılacak böylelikle enerji verimliliği yaratan yenilikçi çalışmaların sonucunda da karbon salınımı başta olmak üzere çevresel hassasiyeti güçlü tasarımlar ortaya çıkacaktır. Ayrıca yenilikçi ve verimli olarak geliştirilen tasarımların ekonomiye de doğrudan ve dolaylı katkılar vereceği düşünülmektedir.

Keywords

Endüstriyel soğutucu, Enerji tüketimi, Enerji verimliliği için fırsatlar, Isı yalıtımı, Eko dizayn

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