Method and multipurpose container for transporting goods requiring different temperatures during their transport

摘要

The present invention is directed to a container (1) for transporting goods (33, 34) requiring cooling during their transport. The container (1) comprises a housing (2, 3) basically having a cuboid outer shape and at least one outer door (5) to open an access (8) to at least two separate storage volumes (6, 7) in the interior (4) of the housing (2, 3), a cartridge (10) being fillable with a required amount of dry ice (22) arranged in the interior (4) of the container (1) and at least one of the following features:
- the cartridge (10) is placed between an upper storage volume (6) and a lower storage volume (7),
- the cartridge (10) can be placed at different heights in the housing (2, 3),
- the cartridge (10) has at least a first surface area (12) and a second surface area (13) with different thermal insulations (14, 15) versus adjacent storage volumes (6, 7),
- the cartridge (10) has an inhomogeneous thermal insulation (14, 15), such that during filling using liquid CO2 the better insulated parts are filled with dry ice (22) first,
- the housing (2, 3) contains at least one thermally insulating separating wall (16),
- the cartridge (10) has at least one outlet nozzle (11) for blowing an exhaust of CO2 in one or more predetermined directions or receiving storage volumes (6, 7),
- the housing (2, 3) contains at least one active ventilation means (19) to guide exhausted CO2 from the cartridge (10) on a certain exhaust gas flow path (21) through the housing (2, 3) to a housing outlet (20). This allows to flexibly using transport containers cooled by dry ice for different kinds and amounts of goods to be transported. It particularly allows adapting containers to different transport tasks and transporting goods, especially fresh food and deep frozen food, with different transport temperatures in the same container.