Commercial ice machine components are often found in ice machines used in foodservice, hotel, healthcare, and convenience store applications. Ice may be made in a variety of forms, including squares, crescents, cubelets, top hat cubes, and thin flakes. Whatever the shape of the ice or the size of the machine, you need a dependable, high-performance commercial ice maker with minimal noise, great energy economy, and the option to utilise environmentally friendly refrigerants to lower your carbon footprint.

How does it work?

To understand how an ice machine works, we must first learn about the refrigeration process. Except for the fact that commercial devices have more powerful compressors and a more effective refrigeration process, how we’ve been freezing water hasn’t changed in many years. When a refrigerator’s condition changes, it uses a “refrigerant,” which is a gas that has highly effective heat transmission. When the refrigerant goes through the compressor, the pressure and temperature rise. The compressed gas is driven through a condenser, which is made up of small tubes, and the gas is converted into a liquid. After that, the liquid enters the expansion chamber. The liquid evaporates, reverting to a gas. Heat is absorbed during evaporation, which creates the cooling effect.

The ice tray, like the refrigerator, is linked to a network of coiled heat-exchanging pipes. The ice tray is cooled throughout the refrigeration operation. The ice maker draws water from a collection sump and drips it gently over the ice tray. This causes the water to progressively freeze in layers, resulting in the transparent ice. When you freeze water all at once, it becomes hazy ice. After a few minutes, the ice maker opens a solenoid valve attached to the heat exchange pipes. When this valve is turned on, the refrigerant flows in a different direction. The compressor begins to push the gas via a bypass tube.The hot gas is cycled back to the evaporator without condensing, causing the heat exchanging pipes and the ice tray to rapidly heat up. This will cause the newly generated ice cubes to melt. The ice trays in the most popular commercial ice maker are often tilted so that as the ice heats up, it will slide out on its own. Other ice machines use a cylinder piston to remove the ice from the tray.

Advantages and features

• Superiortemperature management
• Solutions that are lightweight and small
• Stainless steel products for harsh environments and the food and beverage industries Reliable solutions with minimal operating and maintenance costs
• Products that may be used with any common refrigerant, including natural refrigerants.
• Service life is extended