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Forced-Air Precoolers for
Rapid-Cooling of Fruit, Vegetables, & Flowers

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Global Cooling manufactures and installs four types of forced-air Precoolers. All of them help you maximize shelf life and value of fresh fruit, vegetables, and floral/flowers.  Now offering vacuum coolers too!

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Ripe-Anywhere™. Precool-Anywhere™.

Our Mobile Precooler, in a 40-foot reefer container. (for lighter pallets, needing to be cooled to approximately 50F.)


Recent Projects

Vineland, NJ, Jet Precoolers™, cooling grapes, drying onions.

 

Los Angeles, Jet Precooler™, various commodities.

San Francisco, Jet Precooler™, Yogurt.

Honduras, Jet Precooler™, Okra.

Fresno area, KD Precooler™, tomatoes.

Sacramento, Jet Precoolers™, mixed commodities, organic/fresh.

Vineland, NJ, Jet Precoolers™, mixed commodities, fresh and after fumigation.

Dover, Delaware.  KD Tarped precooler for peaches, asparagus, and berries. Ammonia.

Cortazar, Mexico. Vertical Airflow precoolers for cauliflower, snow peas, and garlic.  Ammonia.

Wilmington, DE. Rapid-Cool vertical airflow precoolers, re-cooling of Chilean grapes after fumigation. 2.5 hour pulldown time. Vertical and Reversing airflow, Krack compressor rack and remote condensers.  404a.

Tijuana, Mexico. Ripening rooms. Upgrading fans and cooling coils to provide 25% more airflow and cooling capacity, while saving 33% electricity. R22.

 

Precool faster with Reversing Airflow.  Proven Designs.  2-Tier systems add even more capacity.

Rapid-Cool™ Vertical Airflow Precoolers™ can double or triple your daily turnover.

Our Vertical Airflow Precoolers™, might be the future of pre-cooling. Available with Auto-Reversing Airflow for more-uniform temperatures across the pallets.

Also see our Tarp Tunnel Precooler Kits, including Jet Precooler™, and KD Precooler™, for world-class performance at an affordable price.

It is also possible to load from one end, and unload from the other, for FIFO, and to manage your precoolers from your SmartPhone, using our exclusive SmartCool™ control software . Plus, we do away with the tarps, which are difficult to handle, and to keep sanitary.  Download SmartCool™ powerpoint in pdf format.

Key to the ability to precool faster, is the vertical air delivery.  Our "air duct" is only 2-pallets tall, allowing us to provide more cfm per pallet without pressure drop, than a similarly sized tarp tunnel.  More airflow enables greater cooling capacity and flow, and faster pulldown times. Combine denser storage with faster cooling, and you can triple your throughput, in the same footprint.

Reversing the airflow, at predetermined times, or based on temperature, can additionally reduce pre-cooling time by 17% or more, and give you better product at the same time. You also gain the same percentage of throughput per day, increasing capacity and reducing capital costs per package.

We can also equip the Rapid-Cool™ systems with doors and sulfur dioxide sensors, for safely regulated gas treatment.

The faster that the fresh-cut fruit, vegetables, or flowers, can be brought down from field temperatures, to ideal storage temperatures, the longer the shelf life, the better the quality, and the less the weight loss. High Humidity airflow is also a great benefit to all of the above.

Reducing produce temperatures as quickly as possible, also improves upon food safety, as at lower temperatures, “blooms” of CFUs are much less likely to occur. Better Cold Chain Management equals improved food safety.

Global Cooling's principals have more than 30 years' experience with refrigeration and forced-air cooling of fresh produce. They invented "Tarpless" ripening rooms, and are now focused on revolutionizing precooling too.

Our pre-coolers all have differing airflow volume (cfm) at design static pressure (inches of water column), depending upon the commodity, packaging, and other requirements.

Based in Media, Pennsylvania (nearby to Philadelphia), we realize how important it is to connect with our customers, as each situation or need is different, and has to be customized for maximum value creation. We work locally, and also have completed projects on five continents, globally.

Our Precoolers

Vertical Airflow Reversing Airflow Humifresh Tarp Tunnel Mobile Precooler

Vertical Airflow

Reversing Airflow

Humifresh

Tarp Tunnel

Mobile Precooler


Relative perishability of fresh fruit and vegetables, and recommended 7/8 cooling times and airflow.

Relative Perishability
of Crops

Crop

7/8 Cool
Time (hr)

Airflow L/s/kg
(CFM/lb)

Very High

Asparagus, broccoli, leaf lettuce, spinach, sweet corn, mushrooms , floral

0.75–1.5

6–2 (6–2)

High

Blueberries, raspberries, strawberries, sweet cherries, cauliflower, snap beans, head lettuce

1–2.5

4–1.25
(4–1.25)

Moderate

Apples, early cabbage, cantaloupes, celery, grapes, nectarines, peaches, plums, peppers, summer squash

2–6

1.5–0.5
(1.5–0.5)

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