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2009-03-31 11:42:11

PepsiCo pilot project to green drinks with CO₂ vending machines

PepsiCo announced it was launching a pilot program in US capital Washington DC to test most climate-friendly vending machines ever in the US. 30 such vending machines will be placed in high consumer traffic places in a bid to test the new CO₂ refrigerant systems.

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This is great news. I hope they find these new machines are so good that maybe they could bump that schedule and go nation wide in even less than the 18 months. Perhaps Pepsico could become interested in deploying some of it's test machines here in the driest hottest parts where we thirst greatly in the Phoenix Arizona area.

One part of this article was a bit confusing, though. The 5.08 kilowatt-hours of energy per day should be compared to it's older counterpart so that we may better understand these energy saving and what they could be attributed to.

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It is good for all of us that USA finally starts to protect the environment, even on this small scale.
For your info Japan is already manufacturing many thousands vending machines per year using CO₂ as the refrigerant (also 5000 unit for the Beijing olympics).
Looking around the world you can find many cases where the protection of the environment is proceeding at very fast rate in using natural refrigerants.
Also from Japan you can get heat pumps and multi split air conditioners using CO₂ as the refrigerant and another area developing very fast is using CO₂ for shop installations and for large distribution centers both as cascade systems and trans-critical systems, and often as direct expansion systems.

Regards Jorgen

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Thank you Jorgen and Jon for the comments below.

FYI we are preparing an article about CO₂ Vending machines in Japan, as indeed there are already many thousands in use today.

Regarding the 5.08 kilowatt-hours issue, we are checking with PepsiCo and as soon as we have additional information we will get back to you.

Your R744.com Team

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Thanks for the comments, can anyone help me with contacts for such vending machines in Japan and also small bottle dispensers etc similarly with CO₂. Coke also made big claims at a conference a few years ago in UK but customers advise me that their CO₂ units are not quite so available yet.
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kevin mattimoe

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The new machines use 5.08 kilowatt-hours of energy per day, which is about 15 percent less than a nationwide average of 6 kilowatt-hours used by current machines.

I hope this is clearer!

Your R744.com Team

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I am wondering who's C02 refrigeration system is being used in the machines.

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Does anyone have pictures of the vending machines in DC?

marc

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I have informations from Japan about the manufactures of CO₂ vending machines, the names:
Fuji Electric and Sanden.
They use advanced Sanoy rotery trans-critical CO₂ compressors with intercooler or as two stage, and of course with variable speed control. The compressor is a DC compressor with perma magnets and is highly efficient.
In my opinion nobody can match these compressors anywhere in the world for this application.

Regards Jorgen

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thank you for the information
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kevin

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Dear All,

Just to inform you that we have published a very interesting interview with Sanyo about the Japanese CO₂ Vending Machines market. (see latest news)

Your R744.com Team

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Hi there,

We are specialized in vending machines design, manufacture,distributing around global. Spengler, China-based. now we are sourcing potential suppliers for entire cooling system used co2 refrigrant.

Our vending machines provide hot and cold beverages, snacks and fresh foods for large, medium and small public areas. Spengler vending machines are well known for their high quality and technical standard.

Spengler Guangzhou is owned by Maas International (), a major operator of vending machines in the European market and with headquarters in Son, Holland. Maas was established in 1890 and also owns Spengler GmbH (spengler-online.de) located in Bruchsal Germany.