Sectors of application

Agri-food Industry/Chemical and plastics industries/Mass retail/Refrigeration and air handling/Data centres/Research & Development

Your challenges

  • To characterise and approve equipment or an integrated solution for cooling production in tertiary or industrial buildings
  • To perform a diagnosis on cooling installations
  • To optimise cooling installations by choosing and deploying the solution best suited to your needs
  • To define a research programme and/or develop test resources associated with industrial cooling

Our strengths

  • 10 years of audits and diagnoses carried on the premises of EDF or Dalkia customers.
  • Know-how implemented in support of Cesbron (Dalkia, EDF Group).
  • Training provided for a wide range of audiences (maintenance operators, study engineers, etc.).
  • Internationally recognised scientific excellence (publications, awards, higher education).

Our offer

  • Trial and test campaigns in the fields of thermal performance and instrumentation and control on chiller units, cooling and refrigerant fluid storage in a controlled environment.
  • Expert audits on site.   
  • Modelling studies of cooling installations and optimisation of their sizing and control.
  • Assistance in project design and construction supervision to implement optimisation solutions.
  • Set-up of research projects and programmes in the field of industrial cooling.
  • Training in industrial cooling asset management for operators, energy managers and financial managers.
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Use case examples

Heating network: Simulation of cooling storage to increase the capacity of urban air-conditioning networks, in order to allow connection of 30% additional customers.

Mass retail: Pre-study of the refurbishment of a cooling production facility for the mass retail sector, incorporating the use of cooling storage to improve performance. Offer followed by work

Agri-food industry: Tests of advanced cooling system control solutions on pilot sites, 5% reduction in the customer’s electricity bill.

ADEME project:  Improvement in the energy and technical performance of equipment by monitoring and optimising regulations.

Going further with EDF R&D

Testing Facilities

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Training your staff

Learn new methods, tools and deepen your knowledge.

For more information, contact us at retd-enquiries@edf.fr