Computer simulations and tests carried out by LauritzenCool and York Marine AB confirm the suitability of distributing air in refrigerated cargo holds without gratings. The concept was confirmed as being viable by the full-scale transport of bananas in a regular service between Central America and North Europe.
The project started in 1994 with laboratory work at ABB Ventilation Products to find criteria for the rate of cooling of bananas on single pallets. Work subsequently moved on to trials to determine the rate of cooling and temperature gradients in several pallets of bananas and citrus fruit....
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Approx 400 words from WorldCargo News, September 2001,
page 58.
