Study on the critical conditions of ice formation for a continuous ice making system in a cooling pipe

✍ Scribed by Inaba, Hideo ;Lee, Dong Won ;Horibe, Akihiko

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 126 KB
• Volume: 27
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0096-0802
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1520-6556(1998)27:1<74::aid-htj6>3.0.co;2-u

✦ Synopsis

This paper deals with a continuous ice making method which could be used to provide an ice storage system using off-peak electricity during nighttime. The critical condition for an ice blockage to occur in the cooling tube has been examined in terms of the concentration of water-propylene glycol solution and thermo-hydraulic operating parameters. The results obtained show that nondimensional correlation equations for the critical condition have been derived as a function of thermo-hydraulic parameters in the laminar and the turbulent flow regions. The equations can be used to predict whether an ice making system is operating in a continuous ice making condition or is in the ice blocking phase. ©1998