1. According to the capacity and scale of cold storage: large cold storage, medium cold storage and small cold storage;
2. According to the design temperature of refrigeration: high temperature cold storage (constant temperature storage), medium temperature cold storage (cold storage), low temperature cold storage (cold storage), ultra-low temperature cold storage (deep cold storage) and quick freezing storage (quick freezing storage;
3. According to the structural categories of warehouses, they are divided into civil cold storage and places for storing frozen products. Covered soil cold storage, cave cold storage, combined plate cold storage;
4. According to the nature of use: production cold storage, distribution cold storage, retail cold storage,
5. According to the classification of refrigerants in cold storage
Ammonia cold storage: a cold storage with ammonia as refrigerant in refrigeration system.
Freon cold storage: a cold storage using Freon as refrigerant in refrigeration system.
6. According to storage characteristics: supermarket cold storage, constant temperature cold storage, modified atmosphere cold storage and double temperature cold storage;
7. Classification according to stored items: cold storage of medicines, meat, blood, vaccines, fruits, medicinal materials and aquatic products.
8. Classification according to the structural materials and grades used: high-grade cold storage, low-grade cold storage, stainless steel cold storage, color steel cold storage and glass fiber reinforced plastic cold storage.