Cold Chain Solutions

Cold chain solutions are temperature controlled systems and infrastructure used to maintain defined conditions for temperature sensitive products during storage, handling, and distribution. Depending on the project, the scope can include cold rooms, refrigeration equipment, monitoring, controls, storage arrangements, and associated infrastructure. The required configuration depends on the product, temperature, capacity, daily movement, packaging, site conditions, and operating process. Uniref engineers the system around these requirements rather than using one standard configuration.

Temperature control helps maintain the storage conditions required by temperature sensitive products. Different products have different requirements, so the refrigeration system must be designed around the specified operating range. Factors such as incoming product temperature, room conditions, door openings, daily movement, humidity, and ambient temperature can affect the refrigeration load. Monitoring and alarms can also help operators identify when conditions move outside the defined range.

There is no single temperature for every cold chain application. Medicines and vaccines are commonly designed around 2°C to 8°C. Dairy is often stored around 2°C to 4°C, while many fruits, vegetables, fresh meat, and poultry products are commonly held around 0°C to 4°C. Frozen holding is commonly near minus 18°C or lower. The actual requirement must be established from the product specification and operating conditions.

Storage capacity depends on more than the floor area of a facility. Product quantity, packaging, pallet dimensions, stacking, aisles, room dimensions, storage height, daily incoming quantity, product temperature, and movement patterns are considered. These factors also affect the refrigeration heat load. A project specific assessment is therefore required before confirming the required room capacity and refrigeration system.

Yes. A facility can be designed with separate rooms or zones operating at different temperatures. This arrangement can support products that have different storage requirements within the same overall facility. Each zone is assessed for its individual temperature, humidity, heat load, insulation, airflow, refrigeration duty, doors, controls, and product movement. The final configuration depends on the product mix and operating process.

Yes. Uniref can coordinate cold chain projects from requirement analysis and site assessment through heat load calculation, design, equipment selection, supply, installation, testing, commissioning, training, and handover. The project scope is established according to the facility requirements. Refrigeration equipment, cold storage infrastructure, controls, monitoring, and associated components can be coordinated within the project.

Yes. Cold chain systems can be customized according to the stored product, required temperature, capacity, room dimensions, daily movement, packaging, stacking, humidity requirements, site conditions, utilities, and monitoring needs. Uniref develops the refrigeration and storage configuration from these project inputs. The result can include different room sizes, temperature zones, refrigeration configurations, controls, and monitoring arrangements depending on the facility.

There is no standard catalogue price for a cold chain project. Cost can be affected by storage capacity, number of rooms, temperature requirements, insulation, doors, refrigeration equipment, compressors, evaporators, controls, monitoring, racking, site conditions, electrical requirements, installation, commissioning, and overall project scope. Capacity is confirmed from the product, packaging, stacking, aisles, and daily movement before a project specific quotation is prepared.

Yes. Installation and commissioning can form part of the project scope, followed by maintenance and service support after handover. Installation can include cold rooms, refrigeration equipment, controls, sensors, monitoring systems, and associated components. Maintenance support can include preventive maintenance, AMC, system inspections, breakdown support, spare parts, refrigeration repairs, performance optimization, and selected upgrades or retrofits.

The refrigeration system is selected after the heat load, required temperature, ambient conditions, product characteristics, and site utilities are understood. Freon based and ammonia based configurations can be considered depending on the project requirements. Air cooled and water cooled systems may also be evaluated according to the site's conditions and available utilities. Equipment selection is therefore project specific rather than based only on facility size.