We provide innovative solutions designed to enable energy users to meet their environmental targets, improve profitability and add value. We are able to provide a unique range of energy saving and grease management systems, energy surveys and audits, monitoring and measurement capabilities.
We are world leaders in smart technology for commercial kitchens, focused to drive energy and operating cost down, across universities, hotels, restaurants, supermarkets and commercial catering operators.
Cheetah from Quintex is a Demand Control Kitchen Ventilation System (DCKV) for commercial kitchens and can reduce energy costs by up to 80%. The extraction of waste heat, odours, fumes and combustion products in commercial catering constitutes a major demand for energy. This energy demand is increased further with large quantities of conditioned air being lost to the atmosphere and replaced unnecessarily by inefficient ventilation systems.
Our demand-controlled kitchen (DCV) extraction system is equally at home as either a retrofit or new build solution and works by controlling ventilation fan speeds such that extract rates are matched with cooking demands, hence optimising energy use.
The patented Cheetah system works on the principle of the ‘Affinity Laws for Centrifugal Loads’, the result of which is that a fan running at 40% of its normal operating speed, will only consume 6% of the energy required to run the fan at 100% of its operating capacity.
Variable speed drives are mandatory for the control of larger extract fans (Building Regulations Parts F & L). In commercial kitchens Cheetah controls these drives effectively and efficiently to create a variable air volume (VAV) system, safely minimise energy usage.