Commercial Food and Beverage Refrigeration Equipment
ASHRAE Technical Committee 10.7

The ASHRAE Handbook is published in a series of four volumes, one of which is revised each year, ensuring that no volume is older than four years.
TC 10.7 is responsible for developing and maintaining the following chapters in the ASHRAE Handbook.

REFRIGERATION: "Retail Food Store Refrigeration and Equipment "
In the United States, almost 200,000 retail food stores operate their refrigeration systems around the clock to ensure proper merchandising and safety of their food products. Supermarkets and convenience stores make the largest contribution to this total (Food Marketing Institute 2004). In U.S. retail food stores, refrigeration consumes about 2.3% of the total electricity consumed by all commercial buildings (EIA 2003). Refrigeration accounts for roughly 50% of the electric energy consumption of a typical supermarket (Arthur D. Little1996).  

REFRIGERATION: "Food Service and General Commercial Equipment"      
Food service requires refrigerators that meet a variety of needs. This chapter covers refrigerators available for restaurants, fast-food restaurants, cafeterias, commissaries, hospitals, schools, convenience stores, grocery stores, and other specialized applications. Many refrigeration products used in food service applications are self-contained, and the corresponding refrigeration systems are conventional. Some systems, however, do use ice for fish, salad pans, or specialized preservation and/or display. Chapters 15 and 17 have further information on some of these products.

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 ASHRAE writes standards for the purpose of establishing consensus for: 1) methods of test for use in commerce and 2) performance criteria for use as facilitators with which to guide the industry. ASHRAE publishes the following three types of voluntary consensus standards: Method of Measurement or Test, Standard Design and Standard Practice.  ASHRAE does not write rating standards unless a suitable rating standard will not otherwise be available. ASHRAE is accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) and follows ANSI's requirements for due process and standards development.  Standards may be purchased at the ASHRAE On-line Bookstore.

Standard 18 “MOT for Drinking-Water Coolers and Self-contained Mechanical Refrigeration”

Standard 29 “Methods of Testing Automatic Ice Makers”

Standard 32.1 ”MOT for Rating Vending Machines for Bottled, Canned and Other Sealed Beverages”

Standard 32.3 “MOT for Rating Pre-Mix and Post-Mix Beverage Dispensing Equipment”

Standard 72 “MOT Open and Closed Commercial Refrigerators and Freezers”

Standard 210 “MOT for Rating Commercial Walk-in Refrigerators and Freezers”

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MTG
Presently TC 10.7 participates on the following Multidisciplinary Task Groups:

MTG Lower Global Warming Potential Alternative Refrigerants
MTG.LowGWP is established to coordinate TC/TG/TRG technical activities to help transition the HVAC&R industry to sustainable lower Global Warming Potential (GWP) alternative refrigerants. The MTG will further request participation from US EPA and AHRI. The MTG responsibilities include suggestions for research, development and presentation of technical programs of all types on alternative lower GWP refrigerants, suggestions for Life Cycle Climate Performance (LCCP) systems evaluation for different applications, development of lower GWP solutions for different applications, and a special publication detailing aspects of LCCP applied to the HVAC&R fields.