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Cooler Keeps

High-temperatures environments can
complicate matters for plants that produce breads, pies, and fried items. In some
facilities, flour, breading, and batter cloud
the air, causing air conditioners to suffer.

Food Process Moving
Hot, inherently messy operation needed reliable air conditioning to stay up and running.

AMONG OTHER THINGS, Max Imaging & Electrical, Bowden, GA (outside of
Atlanta), services automation controls in
food facilities that bake bread and deepfry products. Mass production of breads,
pies, and fried goods can be messy. Flour,
breading, and batter cloud the air, and air
conditioners take the brunt of the beating.
When the air conditioning (AC) on control
panels and electrical enclosures goes down,
temperatures go up, causing production
to grind to a halt. This, essentially, used to

SEPT/OCT 2019

be the way the cookie crumbled for Max
Imaging & Electrical-that is until its president Chuck Cohran became acquainted
with Vortex Enclosure Coolers from Vortec,
Cincinnati (vortec.com).

PROBLEM
Temperatures inside food-processing plants
can range from 87 to 90 F in the wintertime.
That's downright tropical, even for residents
of Georgia. One electrical panel in a plant
that processed onion rings, fried fish sticks,

and French bread housed three 7.5-kW
variable-frequency drives (VFDs), each
generating a sizable amount of heat. The
panel had been cooled by a run-of-the-mill
air conditioner that was prone to failure.
Flour and ambient dust would clog the
filters, causing the head pressure to rise and
eventually shutting down the compressor.
An alternative is standard air conditioners that typically feed out of the control
panel they're set up to cool. But if the AC
fails and the undercurrent device doesn't
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