What is Icelings? Tube Ice Applications and Uses

Hotels, Restaurants, Bars, Flight Kitchens, Catering.
Concrete Cooling: Mixed into the cement to achieve a better process of hardening and thereby improving the cement quality.
Chemical Industry Processes: Is of better quality than actually the water it is made up of since the impurities present in the water are moved to the centre of the ice tube and discharged during defrost ensuring that clean, crystal ice tubes are formed. Hence it improves the quality of the end product when used as a cooling agent during chemical reactions. Also it does not cause adverse effect on chemical/dye vessel thereby prevents damage to the vessel lining.
Food Production Processes: Used in poultry, red meat and sausage plants to retard heat build-up, bacteria and salmonella growth as well as to prevent water weight loss during shipment. It can also be used for preserving fruits and vegetables.
In the bakery industry it is used to mix ingredients, eliminate moisture and to keep yeast from working until the appropriate time.
Fishing Industry: Cooling fish on board fishing vessels. Maintaining the freshness of fish during storage and land transportation.
Cold Accumulation.
Mining, Construction and a variety of laboratory and medical applications.

Advantages

Highest electricity efficiency: Only 47 units per ton of ice versus more than 90 units for flake ice.
Lowest operating cost: Production efficiency without brine solution, cans etc; using direct refrigeration principles.
Lowest space to production ratio: Only 100 sq.ft required for 40 TPD machine making this machine one of the most sought after ice machines where land and building is expensive.
Minimal maintenance: Machines are known to run with minimal or no maintenance due to inherent plant design and since only world class indegenous components are used.
Flexible batch cycle: Ice batch in less than 20 minutes ensures no wastage of electricity and thus allows for production planning.
Overall lowest investment: Net present value is greater than flake or block ice plant.
Quality ice: The quality of ice is actually better than the water it is made since the impurities present in the water are moved to the centre of the ice tube and discharged during defrost ensuring that clean, crystal ice tubes are formed. On the other hand, block ice is manufactured using the outdated method of salt water brine chilling. Due to the leaking of ice cans, typically the block ice contains a high degree of salinity which has an adverse effect on the concrete structure.
Uniform meltage: Being consistent in shape the tubes melt at an equal pace providing an uniform cooling medium.
Variance in flake sizing: Using our customized on-line tube ice flaker, flake ice can be produced at a required thickness allowing for present and future variance in flake sizes.
Labour cost savings: Dut to minimal manpower expense related to ice crushing and wastage along with accurate and consistent weight the overall labour expenses are significantly lower.

Machine compariSion With Flake Ice

TUBE ICE MACHINE

FLAKE ICE MACHINE

Direct refrigeration through heat transfer tubes resulting in less energy consumption.
No moving parts in ice maker and only one cutter assembly provided for ice sizing.
Has in-built chilling system and does not require any external chilling plant further reducing electricity consumption.
Can be conveyed through inexpensive screw conveyor or gravity.
Uniform size of 1" diameter, hence reduces meltage and zero lump formation.

Continuous operation of flaker motor across the freezing plate, resulting in high electricity consumption.
Wear and tear of moving parts resulting in high maintenance and reduced efficiency.
Requires additional chilling plant (greater electricity consumption) to reduce inlet water temperature for rated capacity.
Flake ice requires pneumatic conveyors which snow ball which in turn creates air pockets in the concrete