Cold store
A cold store is a warehouse in which a temperature is artificially generated that is usually below the ambient temperature.
The internal temperature depends on the goods to be stored. A well-known application is the storage of food in order to preserve it, for example frozen food that is stored at sub-zero temperatures. Local vegetables and fruits are stored around 0 ° C and tropical and subtropical fruits around 5 to 13 ° C.
Cold stores are also used for technical products, for example to store chemical substances at a temperature that corresponds to the processing temperature or to slow down chemical reactions (e.g. with prepregs ). Such cold stores are particularly common in warmer latitudes .
It is the technical development of the ice house , which does not work with artificial cooling, but with cooling through a large mass of natural ice . The first cold stores were so-called ice cellars . In winter they were filled with large amounts of ice , mostly from frozen waters , which melted over the summer and made it possible to store food and drinks cool.
Cold houses also refer to the systems as small houses that are used by a freezing community to share a freezing system with several cooling compartments for the members of the community. They came up in the 1950s when refrigerators were still very expensive. Today there are only a few of them, but they have a comparatively low energy consumption .
The Association of German Cold Storage and Logistics Companies is the industry association of cold storage operators in Germany.
See also
- Cold room
- cooling
- Reefer ship
- Reefer container
- Cold house (disambiguation)
- Icebear
