Our patented PermaFrost NMR® products are installed in thousands of locations worldwide. Our track record of innovation and success help our customers lead the world in sustainability. Powertron Global’s products are scientifically proven, have long term customer-history and are verified by third parties. Our PermaFrost NMR® product line is the worlds leading energy conservation measure (ECM).
University of Sharjah 2 / U.A.E.
PermaFrost NMR® was installed on a 4 year old SKM 10 ton packaged air-conditioning unit. The unit’s cooling capacity increased by 15% and a overall increase of 10% in COP. PermaFrost NMR® has proved to be an excellent ECM addition to the University's long-term sustainability efforts.
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Texas Oil Tech Laboratory / U.S.
PermaFrost NMR® was put through a comprehensive lab analysis at Texas Oil Tech Laboratories, a World Class, independent Petroleum, Petrochemical and Environmental Testing Laboratory. Texas Oil Tech Laboratories is qualified as a certified testing laboratory according to ISO-9001:2000. All
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EMIP Truck Study (US ARMY)
Powertron Global® installed PermaFrost NMR® into Carrier DX Transicold Supra 744 refrigerated transport unit for the demonstration of the PermaFrost NMR® product line’s ability to reduce HVAC system kilowatt consumption. PermaFrost NMR does this by allowing the refrigerated unit to prod
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Irish Tax & Customs Revenue 1
PermaFrost NMR® was installed in a Mitsubishi Mr Slim - 6 HP split air conditioning unit. This unit is used to cool a data storage room. In the case of the Revenue Commissioner’s office the unit’s cooling capacity increased by approximately 8%.
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M/V Bold Endurance
PermaFrost NMR® was installed on a 30 year old, 45 ton DX unit aboard the vessel “Bold Endurance”. Post installation of PermaFrost NMR®, resulted in an approximate 15% efficiency improvement.
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Bemis Process Chiller / Batavia, IL
The Beamis-Curwood Facility in Illinois installed PermaFrost NMR into a 210-ton Carrier AquaSnap Air-cooled Chiller (2005) equipped with R-410 refrigerant. The chiller is a process chiller and is under year around demand. There was an improvement (restored) of 23.8% in kw/ton with a 22% impr
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Bank of America / Austin, TX
Powertron Global® installed PermaFrost NMR® in 2 rooftop units at a Bank of America location in Austin, TX. The net reduction in energy consumption was 20%. These results were completed and verified by a P.E. with a third party engineering firm.
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Whitney National Bank - 5 States - 110 Locations
The portfolio analysis on the installation of Permafrost NMR was in 110 bank locations in Southeastern US. A total of 2,828,602 kWh were saved in 2007 with estimated savings of $325,000. Whitney National Bank also recorded a 22% decrease in maintenance costs for 2007.
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Eckerd College / Bard AC Unit Service Call / FL
On the Bard AC unit that was serviced, there was excessive discharge pressure as a result of refrigerant oil that had become stacked in the interior of the condenser coil. This reduced the ability of the condenser to convert hot refrigerant gas into a sub-cooled liquid. Initial temperature s
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Londis Supermarkets / Kildare, Ireland
Londis Supermarket in Ireland installed PermaFrost NMR® Synthetic Blend into 2 Copeland condensing units in tandem for a low temp system. Post installation results showed a COP improvement of 13.6% and improvement in cooling capacity of 9.5%.
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Supervalu Supermarkets 1 / Dublin, Ireland
PermaFrost NMR® DX Synthetic Oil Blend was installed into Hitachi Central Refrigeration Pack unit with a 20 HP plant. In the case of Supervalu-Dublin the unit’s cooling capacity increased by approximately 8.5% and the COP increased by 8.8%.
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Lifestyle Family Fitness 35 Locations
LifeStyle Family Fitness installed PermaFrost NMR in all of their Florida locations with a 15% savings in energy. This success led to other locations in the portfolio in North Carolina and Ohio being installed with PermaFrost NMR.
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Bristol Myers-Squibb / Dublin
The test was administered by Dalkia (leading European provider for energy services) for Bristol-Myers Squibb, in Dublin, Ireland, on a 12 HP Refrigeration Unit used for Chemical Cold storage. The unit’s cooling capacity increased by 14.3% and showed an improvement of 12.7% in COP.
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Bristol-Myers Squibb / Wallingford, CT
PermaFrost NMR® was installed in a York YKJH 1279-ton water-cooled chiller (R-134) owned by Bristol-Myers Squibb located in Wallingford, CT. The BMS chiller showed a 6.0% reduction in kW, a 20.8% reduction in kW/ton and a 26.2% improvement in COP.
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Retrospective Performance and Safety Analysis
This case study involves 3 residential DX units that are 17 years old. The three units are manufactured by Rheem and are rated for 12 RLA. These units were treated with PermaFrost NMR® in 2002. The amp draw readings for this report were taken in the fall of 2009 by a licensed HVAC service t
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Galipo Food Company / South Australia
PermaFrost NMR® was installed on a refrigeration system for a cool room at Galipo Foods which located in Adelaide, South Australia. The unit was a Bitzer reciprocating air-cooled condensing unit; model 4FC-52Y running on R-404A refrigerant. An improvement in cooling capacity of 12% and an i
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Tsingtao-Asahi Brewery / China
PermaFrost NMR® was installed in Chiller No. 4 at Tsingtao-Asahi Brewery Factory in Shenzhen, China. An improvement of 8.3% in COP and 8.5% in cooling capacity was achieved after the treatment of PermaFrost NMR®.
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Tender Meats / Dublin, Ireland
PermaFrost NMR® was installed in a low temperature refrigeration system (Copeland Compressor R-22). Cooling capacity increased by 11.7%. This coupled with the noted improvement of 11.3% in COP will allow the unit to reach set temperatures faster. The system is now running approximately 11%
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AMP/Henderson Global Investors / Melbourne, Australia
PermaFrost NMR® Chiller blend was installed for AMP/Henderson Global Investors in Chiller #2, a York YT-D3-E3 centrifugal, at AMP Bourke Place in Melbourne, Australia. The COP increased by 16.3%.
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Mervyns, Laredo, TX
Two 158-ton York Chillers model YCWJ58RS-48PE equipped with R-22 refrigerant. Third party verification engineering company utilized the Micro Air program which is a computer-generated calculation program based off of ASHRAE & ARI industry standards. These units had a COP improvement
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Irish Tax & Customs Revenue 2
PermaFrost NMR® was installed in a Mitsubishi Mr Slim - 6 HP split air conditioning unit. This unit is used to cool a data storage room. In the case of the Revenue Commissioner’s office the unit’s COP increased by 9.2%.
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Gold Field’s House / Sydney, Australia
Gold Field’s House Multiplex Property Trust, a high-rise facility in Sydney, Australia, installed PermaFrost NMR® in a York Centrifugal Water Chiller YTDL - E2 - JCL. The COP increased by 25.58 %. The improvement in the heat transfer in both the evaporator and condenser resulted in an ef
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Residential Report / Atlanta, GA
PermaFrost NMR® DX was installed in a 1997 Bryant 597CN036-D (3 ton) at the home of a Regional Energy Star Manager for the EPA in Atlanta, GA. He uses his home as a real-time laboratory for ongoing EPA projects he is involved in. He has measured the kWh usage at his home for over a decade.
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Kaplans Department Store / Australia
Honeywell engineers installed and monitored for Kaplan's Ben Hur Department Store an installation of PermaFrost NMR® on a 40 HP Trane Chiller. This resulted in an overall reduction in energy consumption by the treated chiller of 19.8%.
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Panama Canal Railway
The Panama Canal Railway Co. decided to treat an entire office building. The DX equipment treated was 5 & 10 ton York units, 2 ton Miller unit, 1.5 ton LG and two unnamed DX units. All were equipped with R-22. The reduction in energy consumption was 17.7%.
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Pizza Hut of MD, Inc.
Five pieces of equipment were installed which included a walk-in freezer, walk-in refrigerator, kitchen HVAC, reach-in refrigerator and dining room HVAC. A P.E. firm installed energy monitoring devices installed prior to the PermaFrost NMR installation to track efficiency improvements on all
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Thiess Services / Dubai, U.A.E.
PermaFrost NMR® was installed in a Westinghouse 2 year old 1.5-ton split unit. The unit’s cooling capacity increased by 8% and run-time energy consumption decreased by 4%. The COP increased by an overall 12% which is due to PermaFrost NMR® effectively restoring the lost efficiency of the
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McCormick (Spice) & Company / Maryland
McCormick (Spice) & Company in Maryland installed PermaFrost NMR in a 50-ton Trane SWUA-5004 water-cooled packaged unit, using R22 refrigerant, that serves the 4th floor of the facility. Total system efficiency restored was 32.3%, while the EER rating of the unit rose by 39.9%. These eff
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Bristol Myers-Squibb / Syracuse, NY
Powertron Global® in conjunction with NYSERDA, (New York State Energy Research and Development Authority), Bristol Myers Squibb, Air Products Inc., and Resource Energy Systems Technologies, Inc. conducted an installation of PermaFrost NMR® in a 10 year old, 450 ton, Trane CVHE450 chilled w
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Major U.S. Communications Company / Data Center Chiller
PermaFrost NMR® was installed in a Carrier 19XR5555 Evergreen 510-ton Centrifugal Chiller (R-134) supporting a mission-critical data center for a Major U.S. Communications Company. A restoration in efficiency of 7.6% in kW/ton an 8.2% improvement in COP were realized for the client. The int
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Bell Foods / Harahan, LA
The implementation of PermaFrost NMR® was performed at the Bell Foods Cold Food Storage Facility in Harahan, LA. Product was installed in Freezer, Cooler and A/C units manufactured by Hussman/Krack, 7 units total. All units were equipped with R-22 and R-404 refrigerants. The average savings
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Seattle Mariners, Safeco Field / WA
The installation of Permafrost NMR® was on a Trane 32-ton DX system and uses R-22 refrigerant. Data verification was derived by Metasys (Johnson Controls Building Management System). In addition to these improved efficiencies, the percentage improvement of thermal exchange (BTU) was 29%.
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Glanbia-Rosderra Plant-Irish Meats
A 10 HP Prestcold Condensing Unit with dual discharge evaporators that services a food prep room was installed with PermaFrost NMR Mineral blend. The unit’s cooling capacity increased by 8%. This coupled with the noted improvement of 10% in COP, will allow the unit to reach set temperatu
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City of Playford / Australia
The ECM implementation yielded average savings of 18.5% in energy costs for the period.
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Deutsche Bank / Melbourne, Australia
Deutsche Bank in Melbourne, Australia installed PermaFrost NMR® in a Copeland reciprocating compressor model number 66H7000 charged with R-22 refrigerant. Overall efficiency improvements were in the cooling capacity of 11.3% and the system performance improvement of 13.1%.
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Austin Community College / Austin, TX
Austin Community College installed PermaFrost NMR® on a rooftop DX unit air conditioning system. The net reduction in energy consumption was 26.34% for the period. These results were gathered and verified by a P.E. with a third party engineering firm.
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M/V Glorius Rena
PermaFrost NMR® was installed on a 25 year old, 60 ton Daikin DX unit aboard the vessel “Glorious Rena”. The unit is equipped with R-22 for refrigerant. After the installation the Delta T had improved by 8 degrees.
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Silverstein Brothers 7 World Trade Center / NYC
PermaFrost NMR® was installed in a Mammoth 28-ton Unit (RTU). A performance improvement 11.2% improvement in cooling performance efficiency was realized.
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Tafe SA / Laboratory / Australia
TafeSA (South Australia Gov't) installed PermaFrost NMR® in a 2 year old Fujitsu Heat Pump, Model AOT12LSAC High Wall Split System. This M&V was conducted in a lab under controlled conditions. The unit is an inverter type using R-410A. Post installation of Permafrost NMR® proved an imp
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Royal Farms Convenience Stores - 2 locations / Maryland
Royal Farms in MD installed PermaFrost NMR® in 5 DX units. All were York packaged rooftop units, some using R-22 and some with R-410 refrigerant. The total amount of refrigeration was 32 tons (three 5-ton units and two 8.5-ton units). Restored system efficiency across all five units improv
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Bristol-Myers Squibb / New Brunswick, NJ
PermaFrost NMR® was installed in a Carrier 19XR 1050-ton water-cooled chiller (R-134) owned by Bristol-Myers Squibb located in New Brunswick, NJ. The unit has been inservice since 2002. The treated chiller with the PermaFrost NMR® ECM showed an 8.8% reduction in kW/ton and an 9.6% improvem
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Sahara Tower / Dubai, U.A.E.
Sahara Tower Building 1 in Dubai installed PermaFrost NMR® on a 3 ton Rheem DX Split unit (less than 3 years old) air-conditioning system. The unit’s cooling capacity increased by 15% and showed an improvement of 13% in COP.
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Investa Group / Australia
The installation of PermaFrost NMR® was on a water-cooled Sanyo CK800HW compressor. Johnson Controls, one of the top four control companies in the world, oversaw this installation. The cooling capacity increased by 14.4% along with an increase in COP of 16.8%. This installation was of many
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City of Tea Tree Gully / Australia
The City Council of Tea Tree installed PermaFrost NMR® in a Trane DX unit resulting in an 18% reduction in energy per day.
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Morgan-Stanley / NYC
Morgan Stanley in NYC treated a 1990 Trane 25-ton DX unit. Percentage improvement of thermal exchange (BTU) was 92% as in this case this was a severely under-performing unit.
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El Machetazo / Panama
El Machetazo is a Panamanian based supermarket chain installed PermaFrost NMR in two York 200 ton water-cooled chillers model number YSCBCBSI-CGC. The installation yielded a savings of 10.9%.
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Broken Hill Hospital / Australia
Broken Hill Base Hospital and Honeywell in Australia installed PermaFrost NMR® in a Carrier screw, water-cooled chiller model number 30HVC106RY. The unit is equipped with R-134A refrigerant. The cooling capacity increased by 35% and the COP increased by 13%.
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Tafe SA Automotive / South Australia
This test was administered at Tafe, Automotive Department in South Australia. All tests were conducted in the Automotive Workshop at the Elizabeth Campus of TAFE SA. After injecting PermaFrost NMR® the vehicle's AC unit, the post treatment reading was 7.4 C (12.4 C pre); yielding a 5.1 C im
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Andrews Air Force Base - Main Chiller Plant
Andrews AirForce Base in MD installed PermaFrost NMR® in a Trane 170-ton Model CHVE020R00 water-cooled chiller using R134A refrigerant serving the 89th Airlift Support Group, Air Mobility Command. Following treatment with PermaFrost NMR® the chiller showed a restoration of 20% in kw/ton an
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AMP/Henderson Global Investors / Parabanks Shopping Center
In Salisbury, South Australia, PermaFrost NMR® Chiller was installed in a Carrier 5H66 Reciprocating Compressor (air-cooled chiller) charged with R-22. The implementation carried out on this chiller indicated an overall improvement in the cooling capacity of 24.1% and system performance of
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