Emerson Climate Technologies have released a new online tool for designers and engineers to help reduce carbon dioxide emissions in supermarkets.
The purpose of the Life Cycle Climate Performance (LCCP) Calculator is to allow users to compare different supermarket system architects with various refrigerants. The LCCP Calculator calculates annual power, total annual carbon dioxide emissions and peak power, as well as provide recommendations to users.
Multiple systems can be analysed on the LCCP Calculator, these systems include: centralized direct expansion, distributed cascade, secondary and booster carbon dioxide. The refrigerants that comparisons can be made among include: R404A, R407A, R410A, R134A and carbon dioxide.
The LCCP Calculator works by having the user deciding on which engineering units are compatible for their location and company, either I-P (English) or SI (Metric) and then entering the necessary information such as case variables and a base case system, which is compared with two other systems. The results are then shown in a graph.
Despite the LCCP Calculator being released in the US, it can be used to perform calculations all over the world, including Australia.
More information on the LCCP Calculator Tool can be found here.
The LCCP Calculator Tool can be found here.