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Posted By Steve Cartwright We have a couple of freezer chambers on site. Every now and then we get a build up of ice in the chambers. At the moment we use the good old fashioned way of removing the ice i.e. heavy duty scrappers, crow bars, shovels etc.
Does anyone know of an alternative method of removing the ice other than totally defrosting the chambers.
The chambers are kept at a temperature of between -18 to -20C.
Thanks in advance for responses.
Steve
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Posted By Ron Hunter You could consider methods or improvements to minimise moisture entering the chambers in the first place by (e.g. sealing items prior to storage, fitting an airlock, dehumidifier/air drying systems, etc.. Depends on how much of an inconvenience this build up removal causes you I suppose?
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Posted By Dave Wilson Why not speak to an airline or BAA who use deicing for aircraft this may be of use, but don't quote me!
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Posted By Descarte depending on the size and nature of the rooms could they not be manually removed? Either physically or by using a electrical metal heated scraped?
Obviously prevention sounds better than cure
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Posted By Mark Farrell Steve, I have a very large coldstore here if you would like some information on how to remove ice please email me at mark.farrell@dhl.com and I will send you some information.
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Posted By Bill Elliott Steve - you don't say what use the storage is put to, but working on the basis that it is food I would agree with earlier posters that prevention is better than trying to manually chip off build up. However if it is food storage I would be a little worried if the operating temperature of the storage was -18 to -20C as this may not produce an adequate product temperature. It is the temperature of the product that it important and to acheive -18C a cabinet temperature of -20 to -25C would be expected. The defrost should not significantly raise the cabinet temperature to the extent that ice builds up and maybe, if your plant has auto defrost there is a malfunction in the timing. Generally modern plant incorporates automatic defrost cycles that prevent ice build up and if ice is building up there is moisture getting in somewhere. Using impact tools to remove ice cannot be doing the structure of the storage much good either.
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Posted By Steve Cartwright Thanks Mark have emailed you direct.
Yes we do carry out preventitive maintenance. The temperatures are fine as we have regular inspections from a meat hygiene inspector and she is more than happy. In a perfect world we would never get any build up of ice, but as you all know it is not perfect and things happen.
Thanks again for all your responses.
Steve
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