Supermarket refrigeration assessment for the Commonwealth Electric Company

Technical Report · Mon Jul 01 04:00:00 EDT 1991

OSTI ID:5647585

Tsaros, T L; Walker, D H ^[1]

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1. Foster-Miller, Inc., Waltham, MA (United States)

The Commonwealth Electric Company (COM/Electric) has initiated an incentive program to promote electric energy conservation within its service territory. The Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) has assisted COM/Electric in assessing the impact on the utility and its customers of implementing energy efficient supermarket refrigeration in retrofit applications. The primary task of this assessment was to contact the supermarket chains and refrigeration contractors and suppliers in the COM/Electric service territory to determine the type of refrigeration employed and standard or novel retrofit equipment implemented in supermarkets. With this information, estimates were made of the potential energy savings that COM/Electric and the supermarkets could realize if supermarkets were retrofitted with energy efficient refrigeration equipment. It was determined that the refrigerated display case features offering the greatest potential for savings through retrofit installations include doors for medium temperature multideck cases, high-efficiency fan motors, anti-sweat heater controls, and vinyl strip curtains for walk-in coolers. The retrofit components associated with the compressor machine room that offer the greatest potential for savings include the use of low heat pressure control, hot gas defrost, and external liquid-suction heat exchangers and remote evaporative subcoolers for low temperature refrigeration. 6 refs., 14 figs., 26 tabs.

• Research Organization: Electric Power Research Inst., Palo Alto, CA (United States); Foster-Miller, Inc., Waltham, MA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: EPRI; Electric Power Research Inst., Palo Alto, CA (United States)
• OSTI ID: 5647585
• Report Number(s): EPRI-CU-7379
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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32 ENERGY CONSERVATION, CONSUMPTION, AND UTILIZATION
320106* -- Energy Conservation
Consumption
& Utilization-- Building Equipment-- (1987-)
BUILDINGS
COMMERCIAL BUILDINGS
COMMERCIAL SECTOR
COOLING
DEMAND
DOORS
EFFICIENCY
ENERGY CONSERVATION
ENERGY DEMAND
ENERGY EFFICIENCY
HEAT EXCHANGERS
MOTORS
OPENINGS
REFRIGERATION
REFRIGERATORS
RETROFITTING