Kilkenny Cooling Systems

Bulmers Ice Cold and Coors Light Ice Cold Comes to Kilkenny!

2011-12-07T00:27:00.000-08:00

Kilkenny Cooling Systems' BRAND NEW sub zero beer cooler prototype went on trial in Kytler's Inn, Kilkenny earlier this week, and is performing admirably, as expected.

Kyteler’s Inn on Kieran Street, in conjunction with the country’s leading breweries (Diageo, C&C and Heineken) is participating in trials of a brand new sub zero beer cooling system.

Our new glycol cooler, designed specifically for icing fonts and providing sub zero beer (and optionally cooling the keg room) is a brand new glycol cooler design - the first of its kind in Ireland.
The idea of the cooler is offer significant advantages to publicans over what is currently available, such as huge energy savings, excellent beer quality and the capacity to serve Coors and Bulmers, as well as the existing Heineken and Budweiser from an ice tap, while eliminating the requirement for secondary coolers at the bar.

This Kilkenny innovation is much easier to install than a typical remote glycol system - (taking about half the time) and it costs less. It is also fully compatible with existing installations and there is no need for bulky chill blocks or complicated temperature controllers or valves at the bar.

Kyteler’s is now the very first pub in County Kilkenny, and one of the first pubs in the country to have Ice Cold Coors and Bulmer’s on Draught.

The new system was installed at the end of November and has worked perfectly since the moment it was switched on.

The new taps can be seen in Kyteler’s courtyard at the moment but will soon be installed throughout the busy city centre venue as the trialling of the cooler progresses.

Ireland’s No 1 festival gets Ireland’s No 1 cooler

2011-07-08T08:26:00.000-07:00

Oxegen is by far the largest festival in ireland, taking place in the middle of July every year. Over the next three days, 90,000 music fans per day will descend on the Punchestown race course in Co Kildare for the festival weekend.

The monumental task of cooling the tens of thousands of pints of beer for the event has been assigned to just six custom-built Kilkenny Cooling Systems Arena mobile beer coolers.

The coolers are fully mobile with on-board refrigeration and twin patented Kilkenny Cooling Systems KCS-10 circulation pumps. They have full double-redundancy in the unlikely event of component failure and each cooler has the capacity to cool thousands of pints of beer per hour to ice-cold perfection, meaning that even if the sun does decide to make an appearance this weekend, concert goers will still enjoy perfect pints to keep refreshed.

Sub Zero Cooling now available from Kilkenny

2011-01-24T12:16:00.000-08:00

Glycol Coolers / Sub Zero Cooling

Kilkenny Cooling Systems is now pleased to offer glycol coolers for a wide range of cooling applications, designed and built to customer specification.

Glycol cooling systems are small and versatile cooling solutions and are utilised when refrigeration temperatures below 0°C are required, or when there is the potential for coolant to freeze (i.e. outdoors in winter conditions).

This makes them ideal for use in many process and laboratory applications.

A propylene glycol / water solution is used as the system’s heat transfer fluid. This allows the system coolant to remain in liquid phase right down to -15°C and below (depending on solution concentration).

Propylene glycol is a stable, non-toxic fluid used globally as a heat transfer fluid and also in the cosmetics, pharmaceutical and food industries.

Terminal 2 Opens

2010-11-21T14:25:00.000-08:00

Dublin Airport's Terminal Two opened on 19th November 2010

At its peak, Terminal 2 was the largest construction project in the state, and employed up to 2,600 workers on site.

With its steel and glass facade, the new terminal makes use of natural light to create a modern and comfortable space for both departing and arriving passengers. The three storey terminal building has been designed with bright spaces in areas where passengers dwell such as check-in, baggage reclaim, security and the departures lounge

Refrigeration-wise, Terminal 2 is kitted out with Kilkenny Cooling Systems beer coolers and coldrooms.

The coldroom in the Slaney bar in particular was an extremely challenging project, because as well as holding the kegs of beer and gas, it had

to house all the required refrigeration plant, including liquid cooled refrigeration units and the draught beer cooler itself. Not only this, but the walls of the space into which the room was place were all curved (see picture below). This made space very tight and installation very tricky.

There were access restrictions on the site, and cost, as always, was a consideration, so the project required much more rigorous planning and design than would a standard installation.

In the end, the entire cold room was bespoke designed panel-by panel by the Kilkenny Cooling Systems engineer using the most efficient design possible, and then fully assembled and inspected on our factory floor! This was a first for the company - usually we ship cold rooms straight from production but in this instance we needed to ensure that the curved walls (which in reality were achieved using a series of straight panels), and in particular the panel interfaces, were up to our usual high standard.

Once the rooms was approved in -house, it was labeled, disassembled, and dispatched to the Slaney Bar in Terminal 2, Dublin Airport, where today, ice cold beer can be enjoyed every time you fly!

The refrigeration contractor who carried out the installation was Euro Refrigeration of Dublin.

NRA

2010-06-23T02:55:00.000-07:00

Kilkenny Cooling Systems was awarded the contract to supply and fit all of the chill and freezer rooms for the National Roads Authority's new motorway service stations, which are currently under construction all over the country.

The new service stations will make refuelling, rest or refreshments more accessible during times of travel, and Kilkenny Cooling Systems is proud to be on board with such a prestigous national project.

The Doors

2010-04-01T01:32:00.000-07:00

March has been a very busy month for us, especially in our door fabrication section, where we have had to accomodate an unusually large number of requests for off-standard and one-off items.

Pictured to the left is a cleanroom door with built-in viewing port, which was manufactured as part of a large room order we completed for Inform Nutrition in Cork. Inform Nutrition makes dietary suppliments for the agricultural industry.

Also shown is a picture of a large hinged coldroom door, built to the new Musgrave specification, with extra hinges and an aluminium kick plate.

We have now manufactured several cold rooms to this exacting new spec, which cites such requirements as 125mm panels and wider doors with thicker insulation.

Anyone for cricket?

2010-03-12T08:07:00.000-08:00

We are proud to announce Kilkenny Cooling Systems' latest project: Lord's Cricket Ground in London!

After the resounding success of our coolers in conjunction with the Exactap™ quick-pour beer dispense system in The O2 Arena, Dublin, Kilkenny Cooling Systems has once again teamed up with Niagara Dispensing Technologies to provide high volume, high quality beer.

Exactap™ can deliver a pint of Lager in under 3 seconds, and Kilkenny Cooling Systems had to design and build a cooler that would accomodate such immense demand.

The new system proved itself at last year's U2 concert and sports events in Croke Park, and at music events in the O2, where beer sales doubled after the system was installed.

Once again NDT will rely upon Kilkenny Coolers to get cold beer to their taps, this time to 30,000 Cricket Fans at 'The Home of Cricket'!

For more information on quick-pour beer dispense systems, check out the Exactap manufacturers website http://www.niagaradispensing.com/

Dublin Institute of Technology take delivery of their new water chiller

2010-02-03T02:22:00.000-08:00

D.I.T. in Kevin Street, Dublin recently took delivery of a purpose-built water chilling unit for use in their process engineering laboratories.

The unit consists of a modified Junior beer cooler, equipped with our powerful patented KCS-10 pump to pump the ice water around the laboratory. The unit has on-board refrigeration and control panel with digital temperature readout.

The cooler will be used to supply ice water as a coolant for the reaction experiments that are undertaken by students in the lab. The experiments are dual purpose: The electronic engineering students are interested in the control aspect of the system, whereas the process engineering students are interested in the reaction itself.

Grand Canal Theatre

2010-01-23T02:01:00.000-08:00

Due to open in March 2010, this brand new 2,111 capacity purpose-built theatre was designed by world renowned architect Daniel Libeskind. It is a fantastic addition for Irish theatre entertainment.

The beer cooling and cold room equipment was supplied by Kilkenny Cooling and installed by Euro Refrigeration of Dublin.

Stainless Steel Sliding Gear - Now made in Ireland!

2010-01-15T06:48:00.000-08:00

Kilkenny Cooling Systems is proud to announce its latest innovation: Stainless Steel Sliding Gear.

The gear was designed and is fully manufactured in our plant in Kilkenny from parts which we laser-cut from stainless steel and form on our CNC brake press.

This gear is made fully from high quality heavy-duty stainless steel. It has a smooth, polished finish for food safety and really looks the part!

And not only that, but aside from the fact that it is tougher and looks nicer than our competitors' imported sliding gear, it is also cheaper because we manufacture it ourselves, cutting out the middle man.

So please consider Kilkenny Cooling Systems heavy-duty sliding gear on your next order.

Ravenhill Stadium Opens

2009-12-02T09:00:00.000-08:00

The new stand at Ravenhill Stadium, the home of Ulster rugby opened last week for a match between Ulster and Bath Rugby.

The stadium is also home to two purpose-built Kilkenny Integral beer coolers, one for the large bar tent at the terrace, and one for the VIP bar area in the new stand.

The machines have on-board refrigeraton and can accomodate 36 tracks to cater for a full compliment of thirsty rugby fans!