Heat Recovery in Retail Refrigeration
Most retail grocery stores refrigeration systems run 24 hours a day, seven days a week, consuming one-third to one-half of the total electrical energy for the building. Integrating refrigeration and HVAC, two industries often thought of as technically separate and independent, could help reduce a buildings energy requirements and achieve higher standards for energy conservation. And, coupling control integration with proposed energy codes and standards could further yield important market driving changes to both industries. Units: DualCitation: ASHRAE Journal, vol. 52, no. 2, February 2010