Success Story: Retail Food Distribution

Monitor Potential Refrigerant Gas Leaks and Optimise Energy Efficiency for the Refrigeration Facility.

Capacity

Food distribution chain with 68 centres.

<1% of market share in central Spain.

Ranked #26 in Spain.

Problem

Halt the increase in refrigerant gas leaks at their cold storage facilities with an average of 40% in the five shops within the scope of the project.

Reduce direct costs due to refrigerant gas refills: Average gas load approximately 250Kgs Total cost of leaks: 30.000€/Year.

Increase energy efficiency at the facility.

Reliability of the information from the cooling facility. Eliminate false alarms.
Reduce time spent locating refrigerant gas leaks.
Improve the experience for shoppers at their grocery stores

Project

Five shops in critical condition with a total of 2,000 m2 needing to:

Reduce direct costs due to refrigerant gas refills.
Increase the energy efficiency of cooling facilities.
Increase the useful life of the facilities.

Solution

AKO proposed an early detection system for refrigerant gas leaks in the grocery chain’s five shops

The direct refrigerant gas monitoring solution AKOGAS NDIR is able to precisely and effectively detect leaks below 1 gr/h without false alarms, indicating exactly when and where the refrigerant gas leak
has occurred.

This allows us to tackle the leak as early as possible and repair it in as little time as possible, reducing the amount of gas leaked, the time and cost of repair, maintaining an optimal level of refrigerant gas and boosting energy efficiency at the facility.