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Food products require a lot of care. The food products should be stored with proper care. It is important that there is adequate cold storage for the food. All of the food businesses have refrigeration appliances to make sure that their food products are safe and fresh for use. The large food businesses need to have large stocks of food products at all times. Food products can only be stored if there are heavy duty refrigeration appliances available. To make sure that the food products are kept fresh, they need to be stored at the temperature of +68 C and +8 C for as little time as possible. The decreased temperature will result in decreased growth of the bacteria. The food is spoiled by the growth of the microorganisms such as the bacteria. Blast chillers: The food products can be frozen and chilled by using the freezers or the blast chillers. The blast chilling is an excellent way of making sure that the food products are not kept at […]

In 1842 John Gorrie created a system capable of refrigerating water to produce ice. Although it was a commercial failure, it inspired scientists and inventors around the world. France’s Ferdinand Carre was one of the inspired and he created an ice producing system that was simpler and smaller than that of Gorrie. During the Civil War, cities such as New Orleans could no longer get ice from New England via the coastal ice trade. Carre’s refrigeration system became the solution to New Orleans ice problems and by 1865 the city had three of Carre’s machines.[13] In 1867, in San Antonio, Texas, a French immigrant named Andrew Muhl built an ice-making machine to help service the expanding beef industry before moving it to Waco in 1871. In 1873, the patent for this machine was contracted by the Columbus Iron Works, a company acquired by the W.C. Bradley Co., which went on to produce the first commercial ice-makers in the US. By the 1870s brewe […]

For food and beverage processing facilities, the industrial refrigeration system is key to operations. It can also be the key investment and factor in a facility’s operational efficiency and ongoing costs for maintenance and energy use. Being environmentally responsible is becoming more important for industries across the board, and in recent years, the field of industrial refrigeration engineering has seen an array of advances in more efficient equipment and more sustainable refrigerants. However, in much of the industry, engineering practices that have been the industry standard for years are slowing the adoption and use of these new technologies. By employing older, typical engineering approaches in the design of new systems, production facilities are not only unnecessarily wasting energy and resources, which also impacts the environment, but these businesses that rely on refrigeration are wasting their cold hard cash. Table 1. Assum […]

Researchers from the UK and Spain have identified an eco-friendly solid that could replace the inefficient and polluting gases used in most refrigerators and air conditioners. When put under pressure, plastic crystals of neopentylglycol yield huge cooling effects—enough that they are competitive with conventional coolants. In addition, the material is inexpensive, widely available and functions at close to room temperature. Details are published in the journal Nature Communications. The gases currently used in the vast majority of refrigerators and air conditioners —hydrofluorocarbons and hydrocarbons (HFCs and HCs)—are toxic and flammable. When they leak into the air, they also contribute to global warming. “Refrigerators and air conditioners based on HFCs and HCs are also relatively inefficient,” said Dr. Xavier Moya, from the University of Cambridge, who led the research with Professor Josep Lluís Tamarit, from the Univer […]

In the booth, Focusun displayed tube ice machine, flake ice machine, cube ice machine, ice packaging machine, automatic block ice machine Can’t wait to meet you in Wuhan, China 2020!

Focusun gladly shares the news of participating in the upcoming Canton Fair in Guangzhou Location: China Import Export (No. 380, Middle Yuejiang Road, Haizhu District). 15-19 April 2019 Booth: 14.3F16

Focusun transparent block ice machine adopts new technology which can be widely applied to producing various kinds of ice sculptures, enjoying better and faster refrigeration effect. The integrated and modular unit ensures that it’s easy to ship, move and install on the spot. the machine can make up to 2 block ice per batch 1 batch lasts around 72 to 96 hrs. based on the thickness of the ice block. the ice block produced by the direct system is 100% transparent compared to the brine system. Making of transparent ice block using direct system: Adding Water to the tank   Adding water circulation system   Lifting the ice block after freezing                                                                

The use of refrigerator-based equipment is a requirement of all food service operations–large or small–almost without exception. And being of such common occurrence, it’s normal to take such equipment for granted. However, like many other aspects of food service equipment, there’s always an opportunity to learn more about the use and function of refrigeration. Try to answer the following questions: * Does a refrigeration system pump cold air into a unit to lower the temperature of the food therein? Or, does it extract the heat from the food to lower its temperature? * What is the correct temperature for holding refrigerated meats, vegetables, beverages, etc.? * How long should it take to reduce cooked product temperatures from 140[degrees]F to below 40[degrees]F? * Based on meal volume, what size in cubic feet should a raw bulk storage cooler be? * Is a water-cooled refrigeration system faster than an air-cooled […]

Refrigeration is a vital part of modern food production. Without a means to cool and keep food cold, the quality and safety of food would be compromised and the sophisticated cold chain we are used to would not be possible. The whole food chain is underpinned by refrigeration from primary food processing through storage, transport, retail and domestic refrigeration in consumers’ homes. Refrigerants Refrigeration systems using a working fluid or ‘refrigerant’ were invented in the early 1800s. These early systems used air, carbon dioxide, sulfur dioxide or ammonia as the refrigerating fluid. Such systems were superseded in the 1930s by CFCs (Chlorofluorocarbons) that quickly became the dominant refrigerants as they were then considered to be efficient, cheap, non-flammable and non-toxic. In the 1970s it was realized that CFCs were responsible for damaging the ozone layer and in 1989 the Montreal Protocol agreed on a phase-out of CFCs. Thi […]