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COMMERCIAL APPLIANCES it may not sound like much, if the restaurant operates with a profit margin of 5 percent, it will take $9,000 in sales to earn $450. Commercial appliance manufacturers have responded with a plethora of new equipment and the EPA has developed Energy Star ratings for certain commercial appliances including fryers, hot food holding cabinets, commercial solid door refrigerators and freezers, commercial ice makers, commercial dishwashers, and commercial steam cookers. The first manufacturer to achieve the Energy Star rating for a full-size, freestanding gas steam cooker was Market Forge Industries, Everett, Mass., for its 10-pan Eco-Tech Plus ETP 10-G. The steam cooker, which also doubles as a holding cabinet, reached an efficiency rating of nearly 40 percent during a heavy load test (8 lbs of red potatoes), yet its energy and water consumption was equal to or less than the requirements for a 6-pan model, says Mark Manganiello, manager of engineering services. A Product of its Environment Electrolux Professional’s air-o-convect ovens have built-in, automatic self-cleaning cycles to provide labor-free cleaning of the internal chamber at the push of a button. Problem: The operating environment inside your particular appliance may cause thermal controls to act differently than you expected. board, but restaurants feel the pain of rising costs more than most, as their appliances operate for long hours and must be kept at idle even when not actively used. As a result, the energy efficiency of a foodservice appliance can make a real difference in a restaurant’s bottom line. Frank Johnson, senior researcher with the Gas Technology Institute, a research center in Des Plaines, Ill., says that for many of the food service projects that they undertake, they also calculate the payback in terms of energy savings. That payback can be significant. According to Pacific Gas & Electric’s Food Service Technology Center (FTSC), based in San Ramon, Calif., as much as 80 percent of the $10 billion annual energy bill for the commercial food service sector does no useful work. These lost energy dollars are often wasted in the form of inefficient appliances and energy going up the flue. One of the major appliance inefficiencies occurs during idle periods when the appliances are not in use. According to the EPA, cutting one hour of a boiler’s down time each day can translate to $450 in annual savings. While www.applianceDESIGN.com Solution: 1 Involve a Pepi sales engineer 2 Choose the right control 3 Customize to meet application needs ® Pepi® thermal controls can be customized in a variety of ways to ensure reliability in virtually any application. To learn more about how easy and affordable it is to get the right device for your particular application, visit our special Proto • Type web site. www.pepiusa.com/prototype.html Only Pepi® thermostats and thermal protectors offer so many options in fit, configuration, cost and customization. For a close look send for our new Disc-Type and Conductive-Type Catalogs today. www.pepiusa.com Portage Electric Products, Inc. N. Canton, OH U.S.A. salesinfo@pepiusa.com • 1-888-GO4-PEPI applianceDESIGN January 2009 23 http://www.pepiusa.com/prototype.html http://www.pepiusa.com http://www.pepiusa.com http://www.appliancedesign.com

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