• Industrial Refrigeration Private Limited

Flake Ice Machines

Industrial Refrigeration Pvt. Ltd., (IRPL) represents GENEGLACE for Flake Ice Machines, Flake Ice is finding increase usage in the Dyes & Chemical industry one such manufacturer who has successfully used Flake Ice is Etn Gebroeders Cappelle N.V. of Kortrijkstraat, Belgium which has an excellent reputation for quality pigments used by the paint, ink, plastics and other industries. A mixture of chemicals in vats produces dyes and pigments and this process can generate considerable heat that has to be controlled - technically this process is defined as an explosive exothermic effect. At certain critical times in the process, it is essential that the rapidly increasing heat is reduced and specific temperatures are required to sustain the quality of the end product.

First, compared to chips, blocks or granules of ice, the flake-ice has a much larger surface area and consequently provides much more efficient thermal exchange from the mixture within the vats and this ensures faster cooling. There is no water mixed with the ice, and this "ice only" feature of the flake-ice manufacture means that the latent heat, the principal source of the cooling energy, is 100 % available and 1 kg of ice will draw 350kJ of heat from the mix.