| In the last few decades the ability to keep a | | | | distribution and preparation sites choose to use |
| room or a series of rooms or spaces at a specific | | | | the most modern refrigeration systems to keep |
| temperature has become much easier than in the | | | | the temperatures very controlled and at optimal |
| past. Today it is technology involving refrigeration | | | | levels. |
| engineering that allows for many businesses and | | | | Grocery stores also have to use this type of |
| business spaces to be kept very cold even when | | | | refrigeration system. As you are probably well |
| they exist in warm climates. Many businesses | | | | aware, a grocery store is very wide open in their |
| today need this technology to exist at all or | | | | planning yet some of the products need to be |
| ensure the quality and safety of their product | | | | kept much, much cooler than others. The way |
| down the line. | | | | that the stores are able to keep their products |
| One of the most obvious uses of industrial | | | | cool that need to be kept cool is often with |
| refrigeration is ice rinks. All ice rinks have to use | | | | ammonia refrigeration systems. Ammonia gas is |
| this type of engineering because they need to | | | | used to keep the refrigerators cool and this can |
| keep the room cool enough to keep the ice | | | | be done on a large scale or a small scale, |
| frozen well enough so that it can be skated upon | | | | depending on the need. This type of refrigeration |
| by skaters or hockey players. The ice also needs | | | | allows for the grocer to keep their products at |
| to be able to withstand regular maintenance by a | | | | temperatures which will allow the foods to be |
| heavy machine. This cannot be done by a simple | | | | kept at the safest temperature possible. |
| air conditioning system; instead a specific | | | | Restaurants also use industrial refrigeration. Most |
| refrigeration system must be used to keep the | | | | restaurants get big shipments of food in several |
| room as well as the ice at the proper | | | | times a week. Instead of having to store them all |
| temperature to ensure safety. | | | | in a small refrigerator, they often have large |
| Another type of business that uses this type of | | | | industrial size refrigerators and freezers that allow |
| technology is food preparation and distribution | | | | them to store large quantities of food at a |
| sites. This is especially crucial in the butchering of | | | | specific temperature. When you begin to think |
| meats and preparing of diary products and other | | | | about restaurants, ice rinks, food distribution |
| refrigerated products. If the space is not kept | | | | points, and even grocery stores it suddenly |
| cold enough it will allow for bacteria to grow, | | | | becomes very clear that refrigeration engineering |
| possibly causing a widespread health problem. | | | | is all around us and very important to the safe |
| Instead of risking this, the companies who run the | | | | transport and consumption of food. |