"I’m Dimitrios Dalavouras, a mechanical engineer from Greece and Technical Manager at General Refrigeration SA—and you could say refrigeration runs in my blood. My father, affectionately known in our country as “the Refrigeration Guru,” had me tagging along in plant rooms before I could spell compressor. Those early days, watching him coax stubborn racks back to life, hooked me for good.
These days my “office” shifts constantly—from rapid-chill tunnels on Peloponnese peach farms to transcritical CO₂ racks that keep supermarket aisles frosty even when Greek summers push past 40 °C. Whenever someone mutters, “Let’s see how the machine behaves,” I fall back on a lesson learned early: it will run exactly the way it’s designed to run. It’s not luck—it’s science. That mindset drives my core skills: thermodynamic load calculations that right-size every evaporator, high-pressure CO₂ commissioning that tames flash-gas madness, and forensic leak hunts that keep climate-friendly refrigerants safely in the circuit while squeezing every kilowatt-hour into useful cooling.
Why do I love it? Because each installation is a puzzle with real-world stakes: safer food, healthier patients, lighter carbon footprints, and cooler, more comfortable communities. "
