School of Engineering and Architecture

Department of Mechanical Engineering

DESIGN OF AN ICE PLANT AND COLD STORAGE

PLANT WITH AIR CONDITIONING SYSTEM

I. STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM

To design an ice plant and cold storage plant from a given load requirements including a
centralized air conditioning system.

II. DESIGN CONSIDERATION

A. SPACE CONSIDERATIONS AND CALCULATIONS OF ICE PLANT BASED ON

THE FOLLOWING:

1. Tons capacity
2. Number of cans needed
3. Size of brine tank and cold storage
4. Other spaces/equipment rooms needed

B. COLD STORAGE BASED ON:

1. Tons of products to be stored

2. Properties of products and containers
3. Equipment and spaces need

725TONS of pork
725 TONS of fish
725 TONS of beef
725 TONS of chicken
725 TONS of eggs
725 TONS of cauliflower
725 TONS of onions
725 TONS of cabbage
725 TONS of potatoes
725 TONS of cucumber
725 TONS of green beans
725 TONS of carrot
725 TONS of celery
725 TONS of apple
725 TONS of mango
725 TONS of orange
 C. FINALIZED PLANT LAY-OUT BASED ON:

1. Position of the ice plant, cold storage rooms

2. Dimensions, spaces and other requirements such as office, receiving area, etc.

III. COOLING LOAD AND CALCULATIONS

A. Ice plant and cold storage calculations of

1. Product load and heat load to be removed from the product at the cold storage
and ice production.
2. Other heat loads to be taken in considerations such as, but not limited to,
infiltration, conduction of heat from the equipment inside the room, etc.
3. Total heat loads from each and/or section and from the occupants.

IV. CENTRALIZE REFRIGERATION SYSTEM

A single refrigeration system that will serve the whole plant:

A. Schematic diagram of the whole system

B. Evaporator system: parallel / series
C. P-H diagrams of the processes
D. Each building should be labeled with their respective temperature requirements
and the product/s stored.
E. The amount of refrigeration, mass flow, volume flow in the piping system.
Indicate the directional flows.
F. Mass and flow of air in the air conditioned ducting system.

V. DESIGN OF THE EVAPORATOR FOR EACH SECTION

VI. SELECTION OF CONDENSER

VII. SELECTION OF COMPRESSOR (SIZE, CAPACITY, ETC.)

VIII. DESIGN/SELECTION OF OTHER AUXILIARY EQUIPMENT (COOLING TOWER,

PUMPS, FANS, BLOWERS, DUCTING SYSTEM, ETC.)

IX. PLANT LAYOUT

1. Plan views
2. Elevations
3. Sectional views
I. STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM

To design an ice plant and cold storage plant from a given load requirements including a
centralized air conditioning system.

II. DESIGN CONSIDERATION

A. SPACE CONSIDERATIONS AND CALCULATIONS

ICE MAKING:

Capacity = 7255 tons

N= 24
Where;
N= number of cans
W= weight of ice
H= freezing time(hrs)
C= weight of one ice block

From Kents Handbook (11-48) ice making from table 1 (size of standard ice cans and
freezing time)

1. Size of can(in.) = 8x16x32= 4096 cu. In.

Weight of ice block(lb.) = 110lb= 50kg

Time of freezing(hr.) = 30hrs

725,00030
2. N= = 18125 cans
5024

3. Therefore, we used 8 brine tanks.

B. Size of the required brine tank.

18125
Number of ice in one brine tank= 13
= 1394
L= 55 cans
W= 25 cans

Size of one brine tank:

L= 55x16in= 880in= 22.352m + (0.04x56) m + 0.5m = 25.092 m
W= 25x8in= 200in= 5.08 + (0.04x26) m + 0.5m = 6.62m