Refrigerator truck

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Truck with cooling system
Articulated lorry with refrigerated trailer

A refrigerator truck is a van or truck designed to carry perishable freight at specific temperatures. Like refrigerator cars, refrigerated trucks differ from simple insulated and ventilated vans (commonly used for transporting fruit), neither of which are fitted with cooling apparatus. Refrigerator trucks can be ice-cooled, equipped with any one of a variety of mechanical refrigeration systems powered by small displacement diesel engines, or utilize carbon dioxide (either as dry ice or in liquid form) as a cooling agent.

Most of the long-distance refrigerated transport by truck is done in articulated trucks pulling refrigerated semi-trailers. Research is done on fuel cell auxiliary power units.[1]

There were around 1,2 millions of refrigerator cars in use at 2002 worldwide.[2]

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References

  1. ↑ Fuel cell TRU
  2. ↑ Report of the Refrigeration, Air Conditioning, and Heat Pumps // United Nations Environment ISBN 9789280722888 "6.2.4 Road transport"

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