HVAC Case Study
McDonald's Restaurant
Fast Food Kitchen Cooling and Make-up Air
Project Location:
Blackwater, Queensland, Australia
Challenge
To cool a fast food restaurant, where the kitchen heat often adds to that from the scorching sun, making conditions inside bordering on unbearable, to maintain a cool comfortable experience for customers.
Solution: Climate Wizard Stand Alone Cooling
The usual solution for fast food kitchen cooling is to increase the size of the refrigerated air conditioners to compensate for the large amounts of expensively cooled air that is extracted from the kitchen exhaust hoods. In Blackwater, and in many other installations since, Climate Wizard has been installed to provide the fresh air that is extracted by the exhaust hoods. Climate Wizard can cool this fresh air far more efficiently than a refrigerated system, and that means great savings for the operators. It also means that when it is time to replace the refrigerated system, a smaller refrigerated system can be installed together with Climate Wizard while keeping the capital cost about the same, as would be the case if one large refrigerated system was used. The result has been an immediate saving of over 10% in running costs and a very short payback on the new installation.
HVAC Case Study Overview
Industry
Hospitality / Food Service
Country
Australia
Region
Queensland
Technology
Indirect Evaporative Cooling
Application
Stand-alone Cooling
Brand
Climate Wizard
Products Used
