Product Developments 27 A forecourt technology revolution
SEDNA AIRE UK – in partnership with Enviroglow – has launched what they believe to be the most efficient fuel station and convenience store in the UK. The business is owned by the Kay Group and is situated in Burnley, Lancashire. Jointly trading under the Texaco and Spar brands, the one acre site consists of a 2,500sqft convenience store with 23m of refrigeration, 16 fuel pumps and a five unit jet wash centre. It operates 24hrs a day, and is consuming less than 400 units of electricity per day.
Compare this against an almost exact blueprint of this site, which was built just three years ago by the Kay Group in Formby, Liverpool, which is presently consuming just under 900 units a day. Richard Cox, Kay Group managing director said: “Enviroglow has already reduced the energy usage in seven of our sites by an average of over 36%, so they were clearly the right partner for this project. Their affiliation with the American refrigeration technologies company SednaAire is a perfect fit – so far, they are producing results that are in line with their own projections and therefore our expectations.”
Well-known energy reducing technologies such as LED lighting and
voltage optimisation are present in the site. However, there are also a number of technologies which are new to the UK, and are playing a huge role in reducing the energy consumption and overall efficiency,.
Roger Shenton, development director at Enviroglow said: “Food retailers have been crying out for an open deck display unit with the efficiency that they believe doors can offer, and the E-volve system offers exactly this. In fact, in a live trading environment the E-volve cabinet is more efficient than a fridge with doors. This, combined with other Sedna technologies is producing phenomenal results.”
Solar has also played its part in the energy saving credentials of this project, but not in the way that you would imagine. SolarCoolis is a solar thermodynamics air conditioning and refrigeration system that uses the free energy converted from the sun’s ultra-violet rays to assist the compressor in heating up the gas in the system, therefore significantly reducing the energy used in inverter and multi-stage systems.
Other measures include rainwater harvesting for the jet wash centre, and stage two vapour recovery were also part of the overall environmental efficiency project.
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