In the guide-up to the AIRAH Awards 2021 gala on February 17, HVAC&R News is profiling the finalists in different award types.
The Excellence in Refrigeration award recognises excellence in the retrofit or update to present refrigeration methods or the enhancement of new devices, or in the industry’s supply of services. Goods are not suitable in this group.
The finalists in this group are:

Glaciem Cooling Technologies
ARENA-WF Montague
Montague is 1 of Australia’s major fruit growers. Its new multi-use fruit processing facility in Narre Warren North, Victoria, every year procedures a lot more than 300,000,000 items of fruit, which are dispersed to markets throughout Australia and the planet. Glaciem has Installed the biggest CO2 heat pump in the Southern Hemisphere at Montague’s new facility, integrated with the site’s new ammonia/glycol program and two Glaciem Thermcold DYN 900 thermal storage models giving 4MWh of thermal strength storage.
The warmth pump delivers 714kW cooling to the site’s -4°C glycol loop while simultaneously producing >80°C scorching water and 1.1MW heating (heating drinking water 35°C–83°C).

Scantec Refrigeration Systems
Fernhurst
This centralised, twin-stage, minimal-cost NH3 refrigerating plant solutions a 60,000m3 mixed refrigerated warehouse with batch blast freezing.
The combination of refrigeration technologies applied is believed to be unique globally. This involves chilly lake air distribution, automatic ambient air defrost, no air coolers in the refrigerated space, stainless steel piping during, insulated coolers, no ducting, dry-enlargement NH3 feed, automatic mitigation of NH3 leaks from evaporators, specific NH3 inventory .66kg/kW, <25kg operating NH3 inventory in all evaporators combined, desiccant drying system for prevention of slippery floors, and compliance with best-practice energy performance benchmarks.
The winner in the Excellence in Refrigeration category and the other AIRAH Awards will be announced at AIRAH’s gala ceremony in Sydney on Thursday, February 17.
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