Accelerate Magazine/Europe Award Winners Announced

Shecco, publisher of Accelerate Magazine and organizer of the ATMOsphere Europe conference, announced the winners of the 2019 Accelerate Magazine/Europe awards at ATMOsphere Europe in Warsaw, Poland, on Thursday (October 17).

The winners are:

• Best in Sector/Food retail: Biedronka, part of Jeronimo Martins Group
• Best in Sector/Industrial: Bofrost
• Person of the Year: Marek Zgliczynski, Chair of the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) SC61C subcommittee and director of research and development for Brazilian refrigeration
• Innovation of the Year: Mirai’s COLD 15 air-cycle refrigeration machine

Bofrost has installed a transcritical CO2 refrigeration, supplied by Italian OEM CREA SPA, at its existing cold-storage facility in Pordenone, Italy, replacing a system that employed HFCs. The system manages the cooling needs of the entire warehouse as well as a closed water circuit to air condition the offices.

The CO2 system consists of two medium temperature-low-temperature booster systems, designed to supply more than 800kW (256TR). The refrigeration units are positioned outside the warehouse on a steel structure inside two separate containers. “After the first months of operation, there was a significant drop in energy consumption,” said Crea.