Screw Compressor Package
with electric drive and
horizontal oil separator

Built by respective manufacturers:

HOWDEN, MYCOM, FRICK,
RECO, FES, STAL/ABB, SULLAIR,
GRASSO, HALL, Dunham Bush

rebuilt/reconditioned by others

Lo Temperature Applications
Hi Temperature Applications
With / without Economiser
With / without Thermosyphon

Any Voltage - 50 or 60Cycles

RPE Package
screw compressor, diesel drive
through speed-increaser,
with electric alternator and
a vertical oil separator
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Direct Drive

Special Assemblies from 2ndH
(reconditioned) components:

Compressors:
HOWDEN, MYCOM, FRICK,
RECO, FES, STAL/ABB, SULLAIR,
GRASSO, HALL, Dunham Bush

Diesel Engines:
Deutz, Caterpillar
or Buyers' Preference

Alternators:
Buyer's preference

Any Voltage - 50 or 60Cycles

Alternative Prime Movers

Compressor Packages
with shaft-to-shaft or belt drive
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Built by respective manufacturers:

SABROE, GRASSO, MYCOM,
VILTER, HALL, GRAM,
STAL/ABB, HASEGAWA

Single Stage and Two-stage
Applications

Any Voltage - 50 or 60Cycles

RPE Package
A reciprocating compressor is
primed with a diesel engine over
a manual disengaging clutch on
the flywheel end; an electric alter-
nator is driven off the front end

The RMPE Set-up

Special Assemblies from new or
reconditioned components:

Diesel Engines:
KHD/Deutz, Volvo Penta,
Daimler Benz, Caterpillar
or Buyer's preference

Alternators:
Buyer's preference

Any Voltage - 50 or 60Cycles

For more information:
Alternative Prime Movers
RMPE with belt drive

Air Cooled Condenser
with Liquid Subcooler

Air cooled condensers are parti-
cularly suitable for applications in
cold climates. At high ambient
temperatures, they will raise the
discharge pressure on the com-
pressors and increase power
consumption. However, at high
relative humidities (RH), usually
accompanied by high ambient
temperatures, air cooled conden-
sers are sometimes the only
possible solution.

Evaporative Condensers

Evaporative condensers are
suitable for applications in ambient
temperatures above freezing
point and moderate relative humidi-
ties (RH). At temperatures below
freezing point or extreme relative
humidities, special designs must
be applied.

We can supply at short notice:
BAC, IVECO, EVAPCO
and some other brands

We can also provide drawings
for local fabrication of evapo-
rative condensers.

Shell and Tube Condenser

Shell-and-tube condensers - hori-
zontal and vertical - are used with
cooling towers or where cold water
(seawater) is in abundance. They
are built to pressure vessels codes
and must be tested and certified.
Shell-and-tube condensers have
become less popular in favour of
air cooled and evaporative con-
densers, which are easier to install
and require less maintenance.

Horizontal Liquid Receiver

High pressure liquid refrigerant
receivers are pressure vessels,
usually with a horizontal shell, and
must be built to pressure vessel
codes, tested and certified. The
picture shows a typical arrange-
ment on a vessel for Refrige-
rant R717 (ammonia), but it can
equally well be fitted for storage
of halocarbon refrigerants (com-
only known as freons).

Pump Recirculator
with horizontal Liquid Separator

As opposed to local thermostatic
expansion or gravity feed of cold
refrigerant from individual liquid
separators (surge drums), pump
recirculators feed the refrigerant
to the evaporators at a positive
pressure, thus better flooding the
inner surface and improving the
heat transfer.

Pump recirculators can feed many
evaporators simultaneously, how-
ever, all of them operate with the
same evaporating temperature.

Pump Recirculator
with vertical Liquid Separator

Pump recirculators should be fitted
with at least two liquid pumps, each
of which with sufficient capacity to
serve the plant; whereby one can
be idle at all times (stand-by). Large
recirculators should with preference
have three pumps, two working con-
tinuously and the third one serving
as a stand-by unit.

Sometimes liquid separators on
pump recirculators are oversized.
Then the liquid receiver is elimina-
ted and the refrigerant transferred
directly from the condenser to the
recirculator via a high pressure
float valve. The plants then ope-
rate on socalled critical charge
of the refrigerant.

Air Cooler for Blast Freezing

Air coolers are plate finned or
spiral finned, floor mounted or
ceiling suspended and they can
have horizontal, vertical-up or
vertical-down forced or induced
draft air flow. Rather than sear-
ching for a 2ndH air cooler with
the right configuration for a pre-
determined shape of a space
to be refrigerated, it can some-
times be easier to find a suit-
able air cooler and shape the
room to fit its configuration.

-60°C Blast Freezer

Amerio 31:
up to 42.000 kg/24h

Amerio 35:
up to 64.000 kg/24h

Amerio 37:
up to 96.000 kg/24h

APV Amerio 37
Automatic Plate Freezer

'First in - first out' principle:
Packages are routed by a con-
veyor from the filler/packaging
equipment to the infeed con-
veyor. A sensing wheel signals
when a complete row of packa-
ged product is in position and
then activates the hydraulic
loader/unloader device. A full
length pusher blade sweeps
the row of packaged product
into the front of the freezer to a
predetermined depth. Succe-
ding rows of unfrozen packages
are loaded into the first station
until it is filled completely. Then
the next freezing station moves
into position for product loading.
When the last station is filled,
the freezer recyclesautomati-
cally; all stations––as a single
unit––are lowered to the bot-
tom of the freezer. When the
product in the first station has
had sufficient residence time to
be completely frozen, unfrozen
product entering that station
discharges frozen product
through simple displacement.

Horizontal Plate Freezer

Horizontal Plate Freezers come
in two different executions––
with one hydraulic jack on top for
stationary installations, where
headroom is plentiful, and with
two jacks, one on either side, for
seaborne installations (below
deck). Small units operate with
thermostatic expansion of halo-
carbon refrigerants (freons)––
sometimes packaged and self-
contained––whereas large free-
zers usually work with gravity
feed or pump recirculation of
Refrigerant R717 (ammonia).

Vertical Plate Freezer

The Principle
of a Spiral Freezer

For Spiral Freezers please con-
sult our Web Presentation:

Midgets

Download Leaflet

There is a wide variety of 2ndH
spirals––with or without the refri-
gerating equipment––available
on the market.

Scale or Flake Ice Makers

Extensive information on ice in
general––and Scale or Flake Ice
in particular––can be found on
our Web Presentation titled:

Do-it-yourself Block Ice Plants

Plate Ice Maker

Extensive information on ice in
general––and Plate Ice in parti-
cular––can be found on our
Web Presentation titled:

Do-it-yourself Block Ice Plant

Tube Ice Maker

Tube Ice Plants are compara-
tively expensive, but have a
low specific power consump-
tion (in kWh per ton of ice).
They are tall and not suitale for
movable installations. Used
and reconditioned Tube Ice
Plants are on 2ndH the market
at greatly reduced prices.

Extensive information on ice in
general––and Tube Ice in parti-
cular––can be found on our
Web Presentation titled:

Do-it-yourself Block Ice Plant

A Typical Pulp Ice Plant

A new ice handling concept is
known in the market under diffe-
rent names, depending on who
manufactures the equipment.
To name some; the product is
marketed as Liquid Ice or Fluid
Ice or Gel Ice or Flow Ice or
Slush Ice or Slurry Ice; we have
opted for calling it Pulp Ice.

Pulp Ice is made by crushing any
kind of ice into a snow-like pulp
and mixing it with water to permit
it to be pumped. It demands ad-
ditional investment, which must
be justified through higher prices
for the product it is used for.

Ice Storage Equipment
and Ice Delivery Systems

Ice melts at freezing point (0°C
or 32°F) and––in so doing––it
draws 80 kilocalories (kcal) or
0,093 kilowatt (kW) from its sur-
roundings for evry kilogram (kg)
that melts away (~144 Btu for
every lbs). If left to itself at am-
bient temperatures above 0°C,
the temperature of the ice will
remain at 0°C until it has melted
away completely. Hence, in an
enclosed and insulated space
without refrigeration, ice will melt
away at a rate equivalent to the
heat losses through the insula-
tion of the space. Consequently,
cooling of an ice storage with no
supporting refrigeration will come
from the ice, which then remains
at 0°C. The absense of refrige-
ration results in reduction of the
ice, while refrigerating the room
would require investment and
operating cost. Scale or Flake
Ice is an exception from this rule;
if kept at temperatures around
or below -20ÁC, this type of ice
will retain certain preferred charac-
teristics; it will stay loose for con-
venient spreading over the goods,
whereas at freezing point it will
stick together and be unpleasant
to use.