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Assessment of Energy Consumption and Greenhouse Gas Emissions in a UK Quick-Service Restaurant Using EnergyPlus Open

Elias Eid, A Foster, Graciela Alvarez, Robin Campbell, Judith Evans · 2025

To reduce energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions, the adoption of efficient refrigeration and cooking equipment and other innovative technologies need to be considered in the food service sector. In quick-service restaurants (QSRs…

Modelling energy consumption in a Paris supermarket to reduce energy use and greenhouse gas emissions using EnergyPlus Open

Elias Eid, A Foster, Graciela Alvarez, Fatou-Toutie Ndoye, Denis Leducq , et al. · 2024

Reducing food loss and waste contributes to energy, economic and environmental sustainability Open

Ewan Gage, Xinfang Wang, Bing Xu, A Foster, Judith Evans , et al. · 2024

Food loss and waste (FLW) reduction presents a major opportunity for enhancing the sustainability and resilience of the food supply chain. However, the lack of evidence regarding the scale and origins of FLW hinder determination of its env…

An innovative tool to evaluate and optimize GHG emissions in the food supply Open

Denis Leducq, Judith Evans, Pieter Verboven, G. Álvarez · 2024

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Multi-stakeholder initiatives and decarbonization in the European food supply chain Open

Ianna Raissa Moreira Dantas, Inmaculada Martínez‐Zarzoso, Maria Luísa Fernandes de Araujo, Judith Evans, A Foster , et al. · 2023

The European Green Deal is a political milestone aiming to promote a carbon-neutral economy in the European Union. Decarbonizing the complex food sector requires the unified interaction among effective climate policies, economic instrument…

Evaluation of low temperature waste heat as a low carbon heat resource in the UK Open

Gareth Davies, Henrique Lagoeiro, Helen Turnell, M. Wegner, A Foster , et al. · 2023

The capture and transport of waste heat represents a great opportunity for the decarbonisation of heat supply in buildings. To date, mostly high temperature waste heat has been reused and reported. However, with the recent advent of low an…

Evaluation of Low Temperature Waste Heat as a Low Carbon Heat Resource Open

Gareth Davies, Henrique Lagoeiro, Helen Turnell, M. Wegner, A Foster , et al. · 2022

Small-scale demonstrator of a cold thermal store for liquid air energy storage. Open

Alain Damas, Daniele Negro, Denis Leducq, Anthony Dallais, Graciela Alvarez , et al. · 2020

Intermittency of renewable energy supply causes an issue for grid balancing, as electricity generation is not easily controllable. A method to balance power supply and demand is to store energy during low-demand periods and use it at high …

Women in the Refrigeration, Air-Conditioning and Heat Pumps industry Open

I Colombo, C. Marques, M Rodway, Judith Evans, Graeme Maidment , et al. · 2020

Over 15 million people are employed worldwide in the refrigeration sector, which means that almost 5 workers out of 1000 have a job linked to the manufacturing, installation, maintenance and servicing of refrigeration equipment. The need f…

Energy performance of domestic cold appliances in laboratory and home environments Open

Alessandro Biglia, Andrew J. Gemmell, Helen J. Foster, Judith Evans · 2020

Relationship between specific energy consumption and size of supermarket stores Open

A Foster, Tim Brown, Judith Evans · 2019

© 2019 International Institute of Refrigeration. All rights reserved. Energy consumption data for 2017 were analysed for 190 retail (supermarket) stores from one retailer in the UK. The relationship between energy consumption and store siz…

Energy mapping of large refrigerated warehouses co-located with renewable energy sources across Europe. Open

Kostadin Fikiin, P Mazzucchelli, A Foster, Judith Evans, Stepan Akterian , et al. · 2019

Powering refrigerated warehouses by renewable energy sources (RES) turns from an extravagancy \nto a routine. RES intermittency requires suitable energy storage for both off-grid and on-grid \napplications. Cryogenic energy storage, integr…

Supermarket Energy Use in the UK Open

Maria Kolokotroni, Zoi Mylona, Judith Evans, A Foster, Rob Liddiard · 2019

Recent data of energy consumption by supermarkets in the UK are presented and compared with existing benchmarks in the UK and data from other countries. It is shown that energy intensity has been reduced in large supermarkets (>750m2) in r…

Cryogenic heat exchangers for process cooling and renewable energy storage: A review Open

Dimityr Popov, Kostadin Fikiin, Borislav Stankov, Graciela Alvarez, M. Youbi-Idrissi , et al. · 2019

© 2019 The cryogenic industry has experienced remarkable expansion in recent years. Cryogenic technologies are commonly used for industrial processes, such as air separation and natural gas liquefaction. Another recently proposed and teste…

Numerical study of airflow and temperature distribution in a loaded cold store Open

P. W. Coldrey, Jean Moureh, G. Álvarez, Denis Leducq, A Foster , et al. · 2018

© 2018 EUROSIS-ETI. The aim of this study is to analyze the effects of ventilation and cooling power distribution on air temperature and products temperature levels in a cold store by means of computational fluid dynamics. The refrigerated…

Evaluation of suitability of recycled domestic appliances for re-use Open

Judith Evans, Helen J. Foster, Andrew J. Gemmell · 2018

Reasons for disposal of domestic refrigerators and whether some of the appliances could potentially be re-used was studied. Based on visual inspection, a simple operational test and an electrical inspection, 28% of appliances were consider…

Modelling of liquid air energy storage applied to refrigerated cold stores Open

Daniele Negro, Tim Brown, A Foster, Alain Damas, JE Tovar Ramos , et al. · 2018

Liquid Air Energy Storage (LAES) is a promising technology for dealing with the variability in production of various concurrent Renewable Energy Sources (RES). In this context, the work presented forms part of the CryoHub project. CryoHub …

Financial viability of liquid air energy storage applied to cold storage warehouses. Open

A Foster, Daniele Negro, Liz Varga, Yingying Hu, Kostadin Fikiin , et al. · 2018

Cold storage warehouses (CSWs) are large energy consumers and account for a significant portion of the global energy demand. CSWs are ideally suited for solar renewable energy, as they generally have large flat roofs and their peak demand …

Temperature and energy performance of domestic cold appliances in households in England Open

Alessandro Biglia, Andrew J. Gemmell, Helen J. Foster, Judith Evans · 2017

Refrigerated warehouses as intelligent hubs to integrate renewable energy in industrial food refrigeration and to enhance power grid sustainability Open

Kostadin Fikiin, Borislav Stankov, Judith Evans, Graeme Maidment, A Foster , et al. · 2016

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Judith Evans, A Foster · 2015

Front Matter Open

Judith Evans, A Foster · 2015

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Emerging Refrigeration and Freezing Technologies for Food Preservation Open

Judith Evans · 2015

© 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.Many novel refrigeration technologies have undergone development. This chapter divides the technologies into those that are equipment-based and those that are food-based. Many of the technologies st…

A novel passive defrost system for a frozen retail display cabinet with a low evaporator. Open

A Foster, Robin Campbell, T. A. L. Davies, Judith Evans · 2015

An energy efficient thermo-siphon method of defrosting the air coils on a commercial half glass door (HGD)/well retail display cabinet has been developed (FrigescoTM) and the performance compared with the existing electric defrost system u…

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