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Energy-saving grocery shop
Recently, research scientists heralded `a big step for mankind` – in a new shop in Trondheim, Norway which they believe will use 30 per cent less energy than other Norwegian grocery stores.
“Today we have to dump some of the surplus heat above the roof of the building. If there had been schools or kindergartens in the neighbourhood which could have used this heat, the real energy saving would have been even more than the 30 per cent we believe tobe realistic for these sales premises,” says research scientist Armin Hafner.
As SINTEF Energy Research’s representative he has been heavily involved in the design of the recently completed grocery shop in Kroppanmarka in Trondheim.
A living laboratory
According to Hafner this shop will be one of the most effective energy-saving grocery shops in the whole of Europe.
The key to the energy savings is:
- the use of daylight
- the technologies used in the ventilation system and refrigeration unit,
- the handling of the heat exchange between these systems
- the tuning of the overall control strategy
- the monitoring of the energy use of various sub systems
In addition to supplying its customers with food and other necessities, the shop will be a living laboratory, with advanced measurement devices for all sub systems.
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