Dr. D. Y.

Patil College of Engineering

and Innovation,
Varale Campus, Talegaon, Pune.

Department of Mechanical Engineering,

A
PROJECT REVIEW
ON

“ICE PLANT TEST RIG’’

PRESENTED BY,

Name of the Candidate Unique ID

SHAIKH JUNED TAHER 16011021ME168
RIZWAN.S.SIDDIQUI 16011021ME109
NARAVATE SUNIL BALAJI 15061021ME113
WADEKAR AKSHAY.D 16011021ME226
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 CONTENTS
• ABSTRACT

• INTRODUCTION

• LITERATURE REVIEW

• METHODOLOGY

• AIMS AND OBJECTIVES

• SYSTEM DESIGN

• SOFTWARE MODELING

• REFERENCES

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 ABSTRACT
• Refrigeration may be defined as the process of achieving and maintaining a
temperature below that of the surroundings, the aim being to freeze ice,
cool some product, or space to the required temperature. The basis of
modern refrigeration is the ability of liquids to absorb enormous quantities
of heat as they boil and evaporate. One of the important applications of
refrigeration is in ice plant. Ice plant is used for producing refrigeration
effect to freeze potable water in standard cans placed in rectangular tank
which is filled by brine. Our project based on simple refrigeration system
which uses the vapour compression cycle. The vapour compression cycle
comprises four process compression, condensing, and expansion and
evaporation process. Our ice plant model contains various parts such as-
compressor, condenser, filter drier, expansion valve, evaporator coil,
chilling tank and various measuring equipment’s like digital temperature
indicator, pressure gauges, energy meter etc.

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 INTRODUCTION
ICE manufacture is used for producing refrigeration effect to freeze potable water

in standard cans placed in rectangular tank which is filled by brine. A good

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definition of refrigeration is the removal of heat energy so that a space or material

is colder than its surroundings. An ice plant based on same principle as a simple

refrigeration system. An ice plant contains various parts such as compressor,

condenser, receiver, expansion valve, evaporator and refrigeration I accumulator.

A refrigeration is always been a great deal for human being and play a vital role

in providing appropriate temperature in working Entity of any industry.

Refrigeration in the coming years becomes very essential deal for drastic

development of the industrial sector.

 LITERATURE REVIEW
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RESEARCH PAPER PUBLICATION AUTHORS DESCRIPTION / CONCLUSION
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IOSR Journal of This Paper puts

Design Optimization of Ice H. S. Salave, V. N. designing experiment test set up for
Plant Test- Rig Mechanical and Raibhole commercial as well as experimental
1. Civil purpose in Refrigeration and Air
conditioning laboratories.
Engineering
(IOSR-JMCE) .
Comparative performance Maulana Azad Amrat Kumar This research paper help to analyze
analysis of ice plant test rig
with TiO2-R-134a nano National Dhamneyaa, S. P. The nanoparticle is used in chillers
refrigerant and evaporative Institute of S. Rajputb, Alok for increasing system performance.
2. cooled condenser
Technology, Singh
Bhopal, India-
462003

This paper works on experimental

Design and commissioning of Department of L.Keulena,
a thermal stability test-rig for Mechanical and C.Landolinab, organic Rankine cycle (ORC)
mixtures as working fluids for Industrial A.Spinellic,
ORC applications Engineering, P.Iorad,
3 University of C.Invernizzid,
Brescia, Via L.Liettic,
Branze 38, A.Guardone
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Pressure drop of flowing ice
slurries in industrial heat
exchangers
6.
School of G.S.F. Shire *, G.L. To determine the characteristics of
ice flows through industrial heat
Engineering, Quarini, T.S. Evans exchangers (a Tetra Plex C6-SR and a
University of Tetra Spiraflo MTC70/W-3).
Warwick,
Coventry CV4
7AL, UK

CHLOROACETATES IN Department of L. von Sydow*, H. study of chloroacetates in snow, tim

and glacier ice was undertaken to
SNOW, FIRN AND GLACIER Water and Bor6n and A. determine how widespread such
ICE Environmental Grimvall compounds are in precipitation and to
7. elucidate the possible involvement of
Studies, anthropogenic and natural sources
Link6ping
University,

A Study on Anasysis and SMS Institute of J.P. Yadav1* and

8. Fabrication of an Ice Plant Technology, Bharat Raj Singh2*
Model Lucknow

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 METHODOLOGY

INTRODUCTION

PROJECT REPORT

DESIGN

ESTIMATION AND COSTING

SELECTION OF COMPONENT

FABRICATION

TESTING

ANALYSIS
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 AIMS AND OBJECTIVES

1. The project aims to designing experiment test set up for commercial as

well as experimental purpose in Refrigeration and Air conditioning
laboratories.

2. The ice plant test rig is used to evaluate capacity of the ice plant, calculate
coefficient of performance (COP) of the system.

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 List Of Components

COMPRESSOR
A refrigerating compressor, as the name indicates, is a machine used to compress
the vapour refrigerant from the evaporator and to raise its pressure so that the
corresponding saturation is higher than that of the cooling medium.

Small hermetically sealed compressor unit

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 CONDENSER
Condenser is an important component of any refrigeration system. In a typical
refrigerant condenser, the refrigerant enters the condenser in a superheated
state. It is first de-superheated and then condensed by rejecting heat to an
external medium. The refrigerant may leave the condenser as a saturated or a
sub-cooled liquid, depending upon the temperature of the external medium and
design of the condenser. Based on the external fluid, condensers can be
classified as: a) Air cooled condensers b) Water cooled condensers, and c)
Evaporative condensers, in this model forced air cooled condenser.

Forced air cool condenser

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EVAPORATOR
Evaporator used in ice plant test rig, long lengths of bare or finned pipes are
mounted along the high sidewalls of the cold storages. The refrigerant from
expansion valve is fed to these tubes. The liquid refrigerant evaporates inside
the tubes and cools the secondary refrigerant. The advantages of such natural
convection coils are that the coil takes no floor space and it also requires low
maintenance cost .

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 Expansion Device
The expansion device (metric device or throttling device) is an important
device that divides the high pressure side and the low pressure side of a
refrigerating system. It is connected the receiver (containing liquid vapour at
high pressure) and the evaporator (containing liquid refrigerant at low
pressure).

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CHILLING TANK
The main components of chilling tank are viz. ice tank, insulation of ice tank
and ice block. Ice tanks are made of such material as wood, steel or concrete.
As wooden tanks do not last long enough and are liable to leak, they should
preferably be made of steel well coated with waterproof paint.

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AMMETER

• An ammeter is a measuring instrument used to measure the current in

a circuit. Electric currents are measured in amperes (A), hence the name.
Instruments used to measure smaller currents, in the milliampere or
microampere range, are designated as millimeters or micrometers.

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PRESSURE GAUGE

• Pressure measurement is the analysis of an applied force by

a fluid (liquid or gas) on a surface. Pressure is typically measured in units
of force per unit of surface area. Many techniques have been developed for
the measurement of pressure and vacuum. Instruments used to measure and
display pressure in an integral unit are called pressure gauges or vacuum
gauges.

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SYSTEM MODEL

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Advantages:-
• Volume of refrigerant circulated is low, hence the running cost is low
• High coefficient of performance
• The operating temperature range is huge
• The temperature at the evaporator can be easily controlled by regulating
expansion value
• It requires smaller evaporator
Disadvantages
• High initial cost, high refrigerant cost
• Environmental hazardous refrigerant involved
• Must ensure the presentation of leakage

Application
• The applications of an ice plant are in Fisheries, Hospital, Chemical
Pharmaceutical and Commercially used in different industrial applications
etc.
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 REFERENCES
1.Singh, J. Y. (2012). A Study On Analysis And Fabrication Of An Ice Plant
Model.
2. H. S. Salve, V. N. Raibhole(2017) Study Of Ice Plant Components
3. L Von Sydo, H. B. (1998). Chloroacetate In Snow,Firn And Glacier.
4. G.S.F Shire,G. L Quraini (2009). Design And Commisioning Of Thermal.
5. D.M Masterson (2009). Performance Analysis Of Test Rig.
6. N A A Rahman, A. F. (2013). Wall Slip And Viscous Dissipation In Ice Cream
Pipe Rhometry.
7.Jyoti Soni (2013.) Detailed Energy Analysis For Theoretical Vapour
Compression Refrigeration Cycle Using R404a, R407c And R410a

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 Thank you…

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