Refrigerated warehouses as intelligent hubs to integrate renewable energy in industrial food refrigeration and to enhance power grid sustainability
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Independence from fossil fuels, energy diversification, decarbonisation and energy efficiency are key prerequisites to make a national, regional or continental economy competitive in the global marketplace. As Europe is about to generate 20% of its energy demand from Renewable Energy Sources (RES) by 2020, adequate RES integration and renewable energy storage throughout the entire food cold chain must properly be addressed.Refrigerated warehouses for chilled and frozen foods are large energy consumers and account for a significant portion of the global energy demand. Nevertheless, the opportunity for RES integration in the energy supply of large food storage facilities is often neglected. In situ power generation using RES permits capture of a large portion of virtually free energy, thereby reducing dramatically the running costs and carbon footprint, while enhancing the economic competitiveness. In that context, there exist promising engineering solutions to exploit various renewables in the food preservation sector, in combination with the emerging sustainability-enhancing technology of Cryogenic Energy Storage (CES).Substantial research endeavours are driven by the noble objective to turn the Europe's Energy Union into the world's number one in renewable energies. Integrating RES, in synchrony with CES development and proper control, is capable of both strengthening the food refrigeration sector and improving dramatically the power grid balance and energy system sustainabi…
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- Authors
- Fikiin, K., Stankov, B., Evans, J., Maidment, G., Foster, A., Brown, T., Radcliffe, J., Youbi-Idrissi, M., Alford, A., Varga, L., Alvarez, G., Ivanov, I. E., Bond, C., Colombo, I., Garcia-Naveda, G., Ivanov, I., Hattori, K., Umeki, D., Bojkov, T., & Kaloyanov, N.
- Affiliations
- Technical University of Sofia (BG)
- London South Bank University (GB)
- University of Birmingham (GB)
- Air Liquide (France) (FR)
- Cranfield University (GB)
- International Institute of Refrigeration (FR)
- National Renewable Energy Centre (ES)
- Mayekawa MFG. Co., Ltd. (Japan) (JP)
- Corresponding author
- Fikiin, Kostadin
- ORCID
- Venue
- Trends in Food Science & Technology
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2017-02
- Volume
- 60
- Pages
- 96-103
- ISSN
- 0924-2244 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2553372450
- Cited by
- 55
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 6 · 2025: 9 · 2024: 12 · 2023: 3 · 2022: 6 · 2021: 3 · 2020: 1 · 2019: 7 · 2018: 5 · 2017: 2 · 2016: 1
- FWCI
- 4.45
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- doi.org
- Licence
- cc-by-nc-nd
- www.elsevier.com/tdm/userlicense/1.0/ (tdm)
- Locations
- Trends in Food Science & Technology (publishedVersion)
- Research Open (London South Bank University) (acceptedVersion)
- Research Open (London South Bank University) (acceptedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- HAL (submittedVersion)
- CERES (Cranfield University) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- UCL Discovery (University College London) (submittedVersion)
- University of Birmingham Research Portal (University of Birmingham) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation (691761)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Mechanical Engineering › Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Technologies
- Physical Sciences › Energy › Energy Engineering and Power Technology › Power Systems and Renewable Energy
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Electrical and Electronic Engineering › Integrated Energy Systems Optimization
- Keywords
- cold storage facilities, renewable energy integration, cryogenic energy storage, cold chain, decarbonization, energy efficiency, energy system sustainability
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