Cooling technology delivers energy savings for bakery ovens

摘要

In 2019, Rittal UK was approached by Rob Shaw, site controls engineer at Allied Bakeries' Walthamstow facility, which produces around 1.5 million loaves every week. The company performs regular continuous improvement appraisals on its plant tunnel oven, which bakes bread at a rate of 10,000 loaves of bread per hour. Cooling the electrical equipment required to run this line is vital to ensure optimum operation. Despite the fact that Allied Bakeries was already protecting its equipment with Rittal's 'Blue e' cooling units, its engineers were keen to explore if an upgrade to this equipment could help to further reduce the energy and carbon footprint of the site, while protecting the oven's control equipment.