Author Archives: Gordon Rogers

Industrial Refrigeration

This document is a step-by-step guide to improving energy efficiency in medium to large-scale industrial refrigeration systems for industry. It provides best practice information on system operation and outlines opportunities for improving system performance and
efficiency, which will lead to benefits for your business.

By following this guide, you will be able to determine what changes can be made in order to improve the performance of equipment, reduce operating costs and improve
environmental outcomes. Using refrigeration loads to minimise peak demand energy costs is not covered in this document.

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Critical temperature thresholds-Lettuce case study

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Lettuce (Lactuca sativa L.) is an annual vegetable from the Asteraceae family. It is grown in all states of Australia and continents throughout the world, and is consumed mainly as a salad vegetable. The main lettuce production regions in Australia are the Lockyer Valley and Eastern Darling Downs (SE Qld); Hay and Central West (NSW); Lindenow and Robinvale (Vic); Manjimup and Gingin (WA); Virginia (SA) and Cambridge, Richmond and Devonport (Tas).

The purpose of this case study is to project temperature changes in Australian lettuce growing regions and determine the impact of temperature increases on lettuce production.

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Opportunities and challenges faced with emerging technologies in the Australian vegetable industry