El Toro Restaurant Case Study
Breaking the cycle of constant replacements to increase profits and energy savings for a family-owned restaurant
El Toro is a family owned restaurant chain in south Texas. At there location in Clute, TX. They had been experiencing high corrosion and HVAC equipment replacement rates and were looking to break the cycle.
The Case Study ⎯
El Toro’s Challenge
El Toro needed to improve the capital replacement cycle due to corrosion and needed to reduce rising energy cost.
The Solution
A Dual Approach was the ideal solution – First to clean and coat the condenser coils with CoilSafe® coating compositions and second to coat the exterior cabinets with ThermalBlock™ coating compositions. It was decided to do a pilot study of one unit to see what the results would be and a brand new 15 ton American Standard unit was chosen as the test unit. Data loggers were applied, and data was recorded before and after the treatment.
The Result
The test unit showed a 22% reduction in energy consumption. The decision was made by El Toro management to move forward to treat all the units on their roof. 3 months after project completion power bills were compared for the same months of the previous year and El Toro saw their monthly power bill go down over 15% and reported that they had broken even on the project cost. Six years later El Toro still continues to see the savings on their power bill.
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