When was the last time you upgraded your industrial cooling system? Legacy and out-of-date cooling systems can present a number of problems which ultimately means they are performing inadequately and affecting your business’ environmental impact. Let’s explore these negative environmental impacts of old cooling systems and why it’s important to review and maintain them on a regular basis.
How Does a Cooling System Operational Efficiency Affect a Business?
A business’ environmental and financial performance can be significantly affected by the efficiency of their cooling system, as you can see below.
Increased Power Consumption
Continuous growth and expansion of a business can hinder an out-of-date cooling system. Whilst it might once have been “fit for purpose”, demands may change, the cooling system may need to be resized or the cooled air may need to be distributed in a different way. Therefore, the system may not be flexible enough to measure up with ever changing production requirements. This results in increased power consumption to try and meet these new needs.
Wasted Resources
Following on from the point above, inefficiencies of old and inadequately sized cooling systems can lead to wasteful operations. When your system is working 10x harder than it should be, power and resources will be wasted with the equipment trying to keep up with demand. Not only does this negatively impact the environment with the increased energy consumption, but it also makes it a lot more costly for business. Consequently, businesses are paying more for less than satisfactory results.
Rising Energy Costs
Energy costs are increasing across the globe, as are the government’s targets for carbon reduction which gives businesses even more incentive to drive down their energy consumption and bills. Poor performing cooling systems use and waste more energy, therefore the more resources you use, the higher the carbon consumption and the higher the energy bills.
The Importance of Reviewing Your Cooling System
One way in which you can identify if your cooling system is performing poorly is by having regular maintenance and equipment reviews. Rather than waiting for any problems to be fixed or any improvements that need to be made, regularly reviewing the equipment and your business’ cooling needs can keep your cooling system running effectively. By identifying if there is too much power and energy being consumed and reviewing your utility bills, you can make an informed decision that will be both cost- and energy-efficient.
That being said, before any big changes occur, such as expansion or reconfiguration, it’s recommended to talk to a professional about reviewing the design of your cooling system, like EcoCooling. We work with a network of local installers that can provide you with a tailored in-house design to meet your requirements and upgrade your poor cooling system to meet your new specifications. This way, you can make sure your new cooling system can support your existing requirements or an upgrade or change in system will result in reduced costs and less energy usage.
How EcoCooling Can Help
After working with a variety of industries over the years, we have the experience and expertise to design efficient cooling systems for every operation. Our network of installers are on hand to install systems across the whole of the UK, providing local resource and maintenance services. Due to the simple design of our evaporative coolers, there is minimal downtime during installation so your business can continue running smoothly too.
In order to make sure that your cooling system runs efficiently, there is also the option to set up an ongoing maintenance agreement with your installer or another from our approved network. By keeping your evaporative cooling system regularly maintained, it will continue performing at its best, reducing the environmental and financial impacts.
Get in touch with EcoCooling to choose an evaporative cooler that consumes less than 10% of the electricity of an equivalently rated refrigeration based cooling system. Read our case studies to see how we’ve helped other businesses reduce their environmental impact.
- Published September 26, 2024
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Emma Beresford
Director at EcoCooling.
Driving the development of sustainable cooling solutions.
An experienced sales and marketing manager, working with SMEs to successfully develop and execute growth strategies. Key achievements have been in the identification and entry strategy for new markets via alignment and reapplication of existing IP/technology to new products and services.
