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Cold Rooms
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Cold Rooms

Cold Rooms

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When designing a cold room should you introduce ventilation or not and if so should it be a positive pressure or a negative one?

P.S: the cold room is used for food storage (meat, fruits, canned food, etc...)

RE: Cold Rooms

I have seen several cold rooms (never designed one though) and none had ventilation air. Ventilation is for people usually. I would think it would make a lot of frost on the coils. With no occupancy, why provide ventilation?

RE: Cold Rooms

Ventilation is usually only required in cold rooms that have some sort of oxygen depleting activity or some type of hazardous material storage (people working / plant growth etc and some other specialty applications). Food storage coolers and freezers almost never need ventilation. The associated refrigeration load can be pretty big from a small amount of ventilation.

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