Freezing Technology

2.3.1.3. Plate Ice

  In the manufacture of plate ice, water is sprayed and frozen on to the outer surface of refrigerated plate to form a sheet of ice, which usually released by an internal hot gas to defrost.

            Thickness of the ice can be varied with in limits, by alteration of the defrost cycle, but it is commonly get between 8 and 15mm. As the ice falls it is chopped by a rotating cutter and this process is automatic.