Ian Wilson
Chairman of the Green Cooling Council Working Group on CO2

Ian started out with a trade background in fitting and machining, picking up refrigeration as a second trade in 1990 and working as an industrial refrigeration technician for around 10 years and picking up an engineering certificate along the way.  He then spent 12 years at Bitzer, first in Sales and then in their production department before moving to R&D and taking over the design role for Bitzer Australia’s compressor systems products, including their CO2 project. European trends to impose taxes on F-gases and develop CO2 systems inspired Ian to take on the job of developing systems that can be made available to Australian clients.

Earlier this year Ian left Bitzer and in February 2007 started his own company, Carbon Cold Pty Ltd, although he continues to contract to Bitzer as a technical adviser and R&D officer, in addition to general contracting in his spare time. 

Ian sees one of the biggest challenges facing the refrigeration industry as being the need to work out which of the many available natural refrigeration options is most suitable for each of the various applications. The Green Cooling Council supermarket refrigeration pilot scheme will be particularly helpful to improve understanding about how different systems perform in different climatic regions of Australia. Currently Ian is working on developing a transcritical CO2 “toy system” into a real full-sized system that can be used to demonstrate the potential of this technology.

Ian is a formidable swimmer who keeps fit by doing 3kms three times a week, and is a keen native gardener.

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