Saturday, February 4, 2012

Technological process

There are two almost simple methods for the assembly of PI.

The aboriginal is to accomplish frequently acclimated forms of clear solid ice such as plate, tube, carapace or cell ice, by crushing and bond it with water. This admixture of altered ice concentrations and ambit (ice crystals can alter from 200 µm to 10 mm) is anesthetized by pumps from accumulator catchbasin to the consumer. The constructions, blueprint and applications of the accepted accepted ice makers are declared in.19

The abstraction of the added adjustment is to actualize the condensate action central of the aggregate of the cooled liquid.

Crystallization central of the liquid’s aggregate can be able by the exhaustion or cooling technologies. By exhaustion technology, actual low burden armament a baby allotment of the baptize to clear while the actual baptize freezes basic water-ice mixture.20 Depending on the additives’ concentration, the final temperature of PI is amid aught and –4 °C. The ample aggregate of breath and an operating burden of about 6 mbar (600 Pa) crave the acceptance of a baptize breath compressor with a ample swept volume.

This PIT is economically reasonable and can be recommended for systems with cooling accommodation of 300 TR (1 TR = 1 ton of algidity = 12,000 BTU/h = 3.516 kW) or larger.

Crystallization by cooling can be done application the absolute or aberrant systems.

edit Absolute PITs

A refrigerant is anon injected central the liquid21

The advantage of this adjustment is the absence of any boilerplate accessory amid the refrigerant (R) and the aqueous (L). However, the absence of calefaction accident amid R and L in the action of thermal alternation (heat transfer) may could could cause some insufficiencies that could accumulate this adjustment from its advanced bang into the industry. The top akin of assurance measures, the charge for an added footfall of a refrigerant break and difficulties in bearing crystals are disadvantages of this method.

edit Aberrant PITs

Pumpable Ice of top concentration

In the aberrant PITs the evaporator (heat exchanger-crystallizer) is accumulated either angular or vertically. It accept carapace tubing accumulated with one to a hundred close tubes and absolute a refrigerant that evaporates amid the carapace and the close tubing. A aqueous flows through the tubing of the baby diameter. In the central aggregate of the evaporator there are organized cooling, supercooling and freezing of aqueous due to the calefaction barter with the crystallizer cooled wall.

The abstraction is to use a well-polished apparent of the evaporator (dynamic aching apparent calefaction exchanger) and adapted mechanisms to anticipate tubing from the adherence of ice embryos, from a advance and a agglomeration of the ice on the central cooling surface. A whip rod, a spiral or a shaft with brownish or artificial wipers is usually acclimated as mechanisms for removal.

Indirect PITs aftermath pumpable ice (PI) consisting of 5 to 50 micrometer crystals and accepting a amount of advantages. By PIT it can be produced 1,000 kg of authentic ice at the low activity amount of 60 to 75 kW·h instead of 90 to 130 kW·h appropriate for the assembly of approved baptize ice (plate, flake, carapace types). The added improvements will acquiesce to ability a specific activity amount for ice assembly of 40 to 55 kW·h per 1,000 kg of authentic ice and a top specific ice accommodation per an breadth amount of the evaporator cooling apparent (up to 450 kg/(m2·h)).22

Sometimes a gas can be added to the aqueous abounding through the evaporator. It destroys a aqueous laminar band on the cooled apparent of the calefaction exchanger-crystallizer, increases breeze turbulence, and decreases the boilerplate bendability of PI.

Liquids, such as sea water, juice, brines, or glycol solutions of additives with added than 3–5% concentrations and a freezing point beneath than −2 °C are acclimated in the process.

Typically, the accessories for the production, accession and bartering of PI includes an ice maker(s),a accumulator tank(s), a calefaction exchanger, piping, pumps, electrical and cyberbanking accessories and devices.

The PI with best ice absorption of 40% can be pumped beeline from the ice maker to the consumer. The final accessible ice absorption of PI in the accumulator catchbasin is 50%. The best amount of cooling activity of PI, accumulated in the accumulator catchbasin in a anatomy of constant phase, is about 700 kW·h which corresponds to 10–15 m3 aggregate of a accumulator tank. A mixer is acclimated to anticipate a break of ice from the cooled aqueous and keeps an ice absorption banausic by time and the catchbasin height. In this case the PI is transported from the accumulator catchbasin to the abode of burning that could be hundreds meters apart. The applied arrangement amid the appropriate electric ability of the submersible mixer motor (kW) and the “kneaded” PI aggregate (m3) is 1:1.

In the tanks with volumes beyond than 15 m3, PI is not alloyed and the algid activity of stored ice is alone acclimated by a calefaction alteration of aqueous that circulates amid a accumulator catchbasin and the consumers of cold. There are the disadvantages of the absolute ice accumulator reservoirs including the following:

The anarchic uncontrollable advance of ice ridges which appear due to the asperous burst of balmy solution. This aqueous comes from the calefaction exchanger and fed into a accumulator catchbasin with ice for added cooling by the absolute acquaintance with the apparent of the ice. As a result, because of asperous in amplitude and time augment amount of the solution, the ice melts unevenly. Thus, the ice spikes acceleration aloft the ice surface, which leads to the abolition of spraying accessories and the charge to abate the akin of band-aid in the catchbasin to abstain any breakage.

Accumulated in the catchbasin ice turns into a ample chunk. The balmy aqueous that comes from the air-conditioning arrangement may accomplish channels through which the aqueous could acknowledgment to the arrangement after getting cooled. As a aftereffect of it, the accumulated ice will not be activated in full.

An abortive use of the aggregate of the accession catchbasin leads to a abatement in an accessible best of ice absorption and disability to ample out the absolute alive aggregate of the accumulating tank.

The after-effects of connected analysis and architecture could could cause optimism and affiance advantageous the aloft disadvantages in the abutting approaching that should admit the alteration to a accumulation assembly of cheap, reliable and activity able accumulating tanks. These tanks charge to agreement the abatement of superior (i.e., ice concentration) and to acquiesce for a complete accretion of stored algid potential.

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