Icelings Products  Block Ice Plant

Containerized Block Ice Plants

In areas where the existing infrastructure makes the use of small, fragmented ice unsuitable, block ice offers the best alternative. Icelings can not only design and manufacture a containerized block ice plant as per your needs, but can also redesign it to be more efficient and increase it's ice production. Only high quality components and finest materials are used for manufacturing the whole installation ensuring high durability and minimum maintenance. The system design is very simple and hence operations such as filling of the ice cans, ice-harvesting and ice-processing cans will require minimum skills only.

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Containerised System Operation

Thin-walled ice cans in specially designed racks are filled with precooled water and dipped into a tank where cold brine (salt solution) is circulated around the cans. The size of the tank required is related to the daily production. After freezing, a travelling crane lifts a row of cans and transports them to a thawing tank at the end of the freezing tank, where they are submerged in water to release the ice from the moulds. The cans are tipped to remove the blocks, refilled with fresh water and replaced in the brine tank for a further cycle. The blocks slide out and are either stocked in a storage room or distributed directly as a whole block.

The ice blocks weight can vary from 50 to 150 kg, depending on requirements; 150 kg is considered the largest size one man can conveniently handle. The thicker the block the longer the freezing time. This type of packaged plant often requires continuous attention and a shift system is operated by the labour force which may be 10 to 15 workers for a 100 tpd plant. A good deal of space and labour for handling the ice is also a must.