Controlled Atmosphere Cold Storage Systems

Controlled atmosphere storage systems optimize temperature, humidity, and oxygen levels to slow down the ripening of products, prevent spoilage, and extend shelf life. These systems minimize product loss while increasing efficiency, providing cost advantages to businesses.

Advantages of the Atmosphere Controlled Refrigeration Systems 

• Product Quality and Freshness: Maintains the freshness, flavor, and nutritional value of fruits and vegetables for a long time.
• Slowing Ripening: Delays ripening through oxygen and carbon dioxide control, extending shelf life.
• Minimum Product Loss: Reduces spoilage and decay rates, minimizing product loss with proper storage.
• Energy Efficiency: Optimizes energy consumption, reduces costs, and supports environmentally friendly production.
• Sustainable Storage: Provides energy savings with eco-friendly solutions, reducing environmental impacts.
• Hygiene and Safety: Offers a safe storage environment by minimizing contamination risks.
• Long Shelf Life: Extends the shelf life of fruits and vegetables, providing flexibility in the supply chain.
• Operational Efficiency: Improves processes from harvest to consumer, increasing efficiency and providing competitive advantages.

In controlled atmosphere storage, the environment surrounding the product is modified by adding gases and removing oxygen to create a neutral atmosphere (nitrogen) that differs from the normal atmospheric levels.

The cooling system is identical to the standard cold storage. Additionally, it is necessary to change the air composition in the room. For this purpose rooms are constructed as gas-tight.

Due to the reduction of the rate of oxygen in the controlled atmosphere, the respiration rate of the products decreases, the metabolism slows down, and maturation and aging are delayed. This allows the products to be stored much longer than their normal storage period.

Applications

• Providing and installation of atmosphere control equipment(Nitrogen generators, CO2 absorber O2 / CO2 analyzers, ethylene absorber, gas-tight room doors etc.)
• Installation of gas-tight rooms and doors
• Precise controlled cooling systems for CA
• Compliance with HACCP standards and hygienic evaporator design
• Design of machine rooms compliant with EN (European Norms) standards
• Precise remote control and monitoring with PLC/SCADA