Praxair announced today that the company is expanding the services offered in its Food Technologies Laboratory with the addition of a production-sized ColdFront Cryo-Saver Tunnel Freezer. The newly designed tunnel freezer complements other temperature control systems already in place in the Chicago area lab. The ColdFront Cryo-Saver Freezer is capable of lowering cryogen consumption by up to 15 percent as compared to conventional designs. All Praxair systems use either cryogenic liquid carbon dioxide or cryogenic liquid nitrogen to freeze or chill food products rapidly.
The Praxair Food Technologies Laboratory conducts in-house evaluations on products for food producers. The laboratory services include product thermal analysis, equipment sizing for freezing and chilling, product preparation & evaluation, and equipment performance demonstration. The lab also maintains one of the largest databases in the industry of food product analyses with thousands of records collected over the past 40 years. Away from the Chicago-Burr Ridge campus, the Food Lab staff conducts in-field tests at customer locations to certify lab results and fine-tune systems for improved productivity. Praxair also has several freezers that can be deployed for demonstrations at customer facilities.