Reduce Your Fridge Consumption And Food Life Time

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Give your fridge a green makeover!

Millions of restaurants, hotels, supermarkets, butcher shops, contract caterers, hospitals, schools, food transport companies and many more institutions need to use commercial fridges and freezers to store their foodstuffs. These fridges and freezers use up a huge amount of the world's electricity generation and they are responsible for billions of tons of carbon production year upon year.

In today's world for many logistical, economic and political reasons it is not really possible to feed the population from one country without importing huge amounts of foodstuffs from other countries. Sometimes that means the other countries are on the opposite side of the world and the food has to cover great distances by air, sea, road and rail. The amount of energy consumed in the growing and transporting of food is truly awesome and the carbon footprint generated whilst doing this is quite staggering.

Commercial fridges often waste huge amounts of energy in the running of the fridges themselves but in addition even more energy can be wasted through the food that is lost or spoiled ...
... because of poor storage conditions inside the fridge. Very often fridges suffer from excess humidity for many and varied reason such as poor fitting door seals or just leaving the door open for long periods. This creates a problem with icing on the evaporator and makes the fridge very inefficient. Sometimes it is because the fridges are badly positioned within the kitchens they provide for (as in too close to cookers etc.) Very often huge amounts of energy are wasted in the fridges themselves by poor maintenance prevention such as not replacing worn door seals, not topping up the refrigerant gas when necessary or not cleaning evaporators so that they can work more efficiently.

Not cleaning blocked up condensers is another example or simply not bothering to close the door for long periods after loading of the fridge has been completed. So many millions of fridges are not getting down to temperature quickly enough because of excess humidity and too many fridges are needlessly wasting millions of tons of energy by using far too many unnecessary defrost cycles. Humico Biosmart filters are a great way to own a greener fridge. There are two main areas where you can achieve huge savings when you fit biosmart filters in your fridge.

Firstly we have proven that the running costs of the fridge itself will be reduced by up to 35% for the following reasons.

The run time of the compressor will be reduced by up to 4 hours a day. The compressor is able to achieve this because the biosmart filters are taking the excess moisture out of the air thereby automatically dropping the temperature in the fridge. Not only do the filters keep the temperature lower but also they keep the temperature more consistently lower allowing for a more relaxed and even workload on the compressor.

In addition the number of the defrost cycles can be cut by up to 60% because there is no ice to melt (no excess humidity) and the length of the remaining defrost cycles can be cut also by up to 70%. Fewer defrost cycles means less fluctuations both in temperature and humidity giving a more stable air flow. This of course allows the fridge recovery time to be cut in half adding to the saving on compressor run time.

The biosmart filters contain a 100% natural mineral it's non-toxic, non-corrosive and can be recycled and used over and over again. There are no moving parts, no wires to connect, no energy being used they are capable of being fully recycled and are normally changed every month. There is no waste or by product in the recycling process.

Because of the above positive effects on the running of the fridge huge savings are made on maintenance bills as the fridge is running well within itself and much less wear and tear is taking place. This is a huge benefit for fridge owners as the number of problems normally experienced by commercial fridge owners are many and varied but can be very also be very expensive. Saving on maintenance is a great way to save more energy

But truly the greatest energy saving is to be had on the food stored in the fridge. Depending on the type of food and the distance it has to travel the final energy savings can be 100 times or more that saved on the running of the fridge. You can imagine a restaurant in central London that buys exotic fruits from Asia, fine cuts of meat from South America, vegetables from all parts of Europe and then ends up throwing some of that away because of spoilage or through poor storage conditions. Not only do you waste the energy in the fridge that you used to store that produce but you waste all the energy that was required to transport it to London in the first place.

Humico and Humitech filters have now concluded over 10,000 weeks of trials and are proven and tested in the best restaurants and hotels in the world. Every day they are hard at work drastically reducing the amount of food spoilage and wastage in the average fridge.

Food shelf life is controlled by the 3 most important things inside the fridge.

* Temperature
* Humidity
* Gaseous Atmosphere

Temperature

Savings on food wastage represent truly awesome energy savings but the storage environment necessary for maximum shelf life and minimum wastage of fresh produce is critical. One of the more damaging effects on the food inside the fridge is fluctuation in fridge temperature. Humitech and Humico biosmart filters are designed to automatically lower the temperature of the fridge in a natural way by affecting the relative humidity. By regulating and controlling both of these parameters at the same time Humico Biosmart filters start to create the perfect environment for the storage of fresh perishable foods.

Humidity

By absorbing excess humidity when it enters the fridge this is turn automatically lowers the temperature because drier air gets colder quicker. Bisomart filters set new standards for the storage environment within the fridge. By constantly absorbing only the excess moisture that enters the fridge biosmart filters are able to hold very consistent low temperatures throughout the entire fridge. This of course helps to eliminate any and all hot spots in the fridge and gives a much more stable environment for food storage.

Gaseous atmosphere:

To get as near a perfect storage environment as possible in addition to temperature and humidity you must be able to control the gaseous atmosphere that is created inside the fridge from all the combined foodstuffs that are stored inside. The most important things to control are the spread of spoilage bacteria and the threat from Ethylene gas distribution as Ethylene is a ripping agent and can cause rapid spoilage of fruits and other vegetables inside the fridge. It can also enhance the strong smell of onions and help in the cross contamination of other foodstuffs.

Proven and tested in exacting laboratory tests in February 2006 by Doctor Robert Lockhart in Verizon Labs in Canada Humitech and Humico filters were shown to remove up to 60% of the Ethylene gas found inside the fridge every 24 hours. Proven in a number of Lab tests using working restaurant fridges Humico biosmart filters proved that they could remove up to 85% of all the airborne bacteria inside the fridge.
By keeping consistent temperatures, controlling and regulating humidity, eliminating harmful spoilage bacteria thereby increasing fresh food shelf life, Humitech Biosmart filters (Filtros Humico) have proven time and time again they are the green kings when it comes to refrigeration and food storage. Need software? Check out get 2009 Coolsoft DVD Ripper