In the cosmetic industriousness , is not an unknown problem either : keeping the temperature optimal during sea transport is a challenge . The fruit export industry is chivvy by title that fruit loses its caliber along the way due to an wrong temperature . A good solution to this job has not yet been regain . OTFLOW reveals two effort : there is often a poor dispersion of cold air in the container because the fruit is transported on pallets . What also does not help is to place the refrigerated containers in the handgrip . It can get pretty warm in there . Ambient temperatures with sea transportation routesClick here for a larger image .
Imagine : a seagoing vessel sails from Chile to the port wine of Rotterdam for three week . A large number of containers full of blueberries are on control board , mainly below deck . The ship crosses the equator during the voyage and is chiefly sailing in outdoor temperatures above 35 degrees Celsius . " Then such a ship is really get warmer . Certainly below pack of cards the situation is suboptimal : the severely - working cooling railway locomotive render extra heat that is hard to get free off . In the container , the pallets with fruit furthest from the cooling engine have a hard time . That lieu receives less nerveless air , and heat from outside comes in , " say Otto de Groot , founder of OTFLOW .
Situation below pack of cards final result in extra heatClick here for a larger figure of speech
Cooling container not ideal for palletsAnother complexity is the internal intention of the cooling container . For many it is unknown that the interior of the cool down container is design for the transport of box . The air circulation works optimally here , because the slot in the level are then covered well . Because yield is now being transport on pallets , the strain pressure - which must check that the cold air reaches all the way to the rear - falls aside . The further away from the cool unit , the weaker the air insistency becomes , with the result that the temperature near the door increase the dissolute .
remove the problemDe Groot : " I have more than 35 years of expertise in the sphere of yield and vegetable quality and am intimate with the temperature problem refer to fruit transport . And that ’s why I thought it would be a good time , with the end of my vocation in good deal , to start thinking about a solution for this job . " That resulted in OTFLOW : a level handle for the cooling container that ascertain a better air dispersion . " In coaction with Wageningen Biobased Research Facility we have been able to grow a product that optimally distributes the cold line during pallet raptus . This ensures that the lineament of the yield is better preserved and that the possibleness of temperature claims is reduced , " says Ronald Hagenstein , commercial-grade theatre director .
After the figure , testing and exploitation phase , OTFLOW has now been operational for a year . In the meantime , one thousand sea containers have traveled over the world with an OTFLOW on the flooring , and the mathematical product is well received by former users in the importee and export sphere . The arithmetic mean is that in the forthcoming yr OTFLOW will be applied in a quite a little more container . Hagenstein : " At the moment several trial are being conducted by interest group abroad in the yield and vegetable field . Again we expect good solution and the use of OTFLOW will continue to increase . In terms of yield , we have scaled up considerably and are patronage by Dutch importer and foreign exporters in New Zealand , South Africa , Spain , Peru and Chile . "
From left to rightfield : Marc Reym , Otto de Groot and Ronald Hagenstein
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