FREEZER
Model
CAC - Conditioned Air Curtain
Designed for conditions where traffic level is extreme, but humidity
is not extreme.
Model
ECAV - Frost Free Freezer Vestibule
Designed for freezer doorway traffic and humidity situations most
often encountered in the industry
Model
DCAV - Dual Conditioned-Air Vestibule
Designed for the doorway traffic and humidity situations that formerly
called for field constructed, dual passageway vestibules.
Model
3CAV - Triple Conditioned-Air Vestibule
Designed for doorways with extreme temperature differences and very
high traffic flow.
Model
ECAV/CAC
Designed for high traffic doorways that experience extreme temperature
differences from sub-zero direct to ambient conditions.
Freezer Doorway Models
Although frost and ice elimination is visibly dramatic for all the
HCR freezer doorway models, productivity improvement can be even more
dramatic. The benefit to merchandise movement upon cleaning-up and freeing-up
doorways often extends to space utilization as though a sizable freezer
addition has been made. Equally dramatic are the cases where frost-clogged
coils near doorways are found. Making them fully operative is essentially
the same as adding refrigeration capacity.
Frost elimination is by means of a special air conditioning process,
which mixes warm, moist infiltration air with corresponding quantities
of cold, dry ex-filtration air, and adds sufficient sensible heat to
bring the mixture to a point where neither airborne ice crystals nor
ordinary fog can form.
The sensible heat source is usually electricity where the requirement
is small and waste-heat reclaim (free hot gas) from the refrigeration
system where the requirement is large. The use of sensible heat is identical
in principle to the use of reheat for humidity control in higher temperature
rooms. The amount required depends upon doorway size, model selected,
and the levels of temperature and humidity that occur on each side of
the opening.