Colombia. In Bogotá, for Grupo Éxito, the first Transcritical CO2 cooling system in the country was installed. Weston SAS engineered and installed an Advansor-HillPhoenix CO2 Booster system, which provides an excellent relationship between energy efficiency and environmental sustainability, reducing the carbon footprint.
Engineers of the company indicated that the installation of this system marks the beginning of a new era for refrigeration in Colombia, framed in environmental responsibility, eliminating the use of refrigerants with high GWP, optimizing installation and operating costs in refrigeration facilities. The technological development allows us to install transcritical systems, which operate automatically in subcritical mode and / or with parallel compression, achieving great stability in the cold chain and considerable reductions in energy consumption.
Additionally, Weston explained that "when we use traditional refrigerants such as R-134A (GWP = 1430), a leak of 1 kg of refrigerant has an environmental effect equivalent to emitting 1430 Kg of CO2 into the atmosphere and the use of CO2 (R-744) as a refrigerant, despite being a greenhouse gas, we are reducing the environmental impact generated by the cooling system."
