ACR Journal

October | November 2020 REFRIGERATION 22 Volume 6 No.6 Arctic Circle’s latest LT only transcritical booster system, known as the Arctic Aurora, delivers up to 300kW of cooling at -30°C SST. The pack was developed and created with JD Cooling for a world-renowned food processing company in the UK and is now up and running in its new home in the east of England. Mark Culley, Managing Director, of the JD Cooling Group, said: “Arctic Circle was the natural partner to choose to fulfil the exacting requirements of our client, a leading global food manufacturer. As a result of this collaboration we have developed a truly class-leading product, with the correct level of detail and specification for the industrial end user’s needs. We are proud that even during the height of the Covid-19 outbreak, we were able to deliver this turnkey project on time and on budget.” The development of the Arctic Aurora was conceived and designed by Arctic Circle’s engineering design team who New era dawns with Arctic Aurora As it prepares to celebrate its 35th anniversary, Hereford-based Arctic Circle continues to lead the way in innovation with its latest refrigeration solution. have consistently delivered pioneering refrigeration to the market for 35 years. The Arctic Aurora is a standalone low temperature natural refrigeration solution optimized for eciency with a dynamic resilience control. The pack incorporates a patent pending control strategy which ensures the two compressor stages work seamlessly together to guarantee that the compressors are always available to run. The result is uncompromised performance and high resilience; the optimized operation protects the compressor by recognizing low superheat conditions and acts accordingly. This model of the Arctic Aurora incorporates BITZER 6TME-35K- 40P compressors, the first non ECOLINE+ Varistep models in the UK. Radically rethought Arctic Circle Business Development Manager Patrick Knight said: “We saw an opportunity to bring our existing CO 2 transcritical platform to the industrial cooling market. Using CO 2 in place of other refrigerants can reward the end user with significant capital cost savings and significantly reduced direct carbon emissions. As a natural fluid with a low global warming potential, ongoing costs of CO 2 as a refrigerant are largely una¤ected by the F-Gas phase down and will continue to remain very low for the foreseeable future. “All things considered, the total cost of ownership of such systems when compared against the status quo can be very attractive. As market leaders of CO 2 refrigeration system design and manufacturing in the UK, this product has its foundations in our existing expertise but has been radically rethought to match the demands of the industrial and food processing sectors.” The Arctic Aurora pictured prior to installation at a food processing company The pack features a pioneering control strategy which Arctic Circle says delivers unrivalled performance