ICE Making Portable Factory
Objective:
To conserve energy by innovative techniques using Chiller
Insulative containers to reduce energy loss
Industry: Renewable Energy
Industry: Production
Description:
Ice is one of the significant products that complement many other industries. The demand for ice in developing countries to be used in daily cuisine is predicted to grow, which would drive up the market for ice production. Ice acts as a cheap energy source that can effectively generate electricity and conserve resources like water. Consequently, Al-Ashry company had the insight to perceive the essentiality of ice making industry and how this energy source could be of such criticality and vitality in countless industrial segments. Therefore, Al-Ashry company has collaborated with The British University in Egypt to coin an industrial breakthrough in this industrial sector, and in the light of achieving remarkable success and quality standards in scientific research.
Project history.
In 2019, when the approach from industrial partner took place, the University has formed an R&D committee encompasses experts of various specializations led by Dr. Hesham Safwat, Lecturer of HVAC systems at the mechanical engineering department with an honorable professional team from the university (Prof Ahmed Abd EL Azim, Prof Mostafa El Shazly, Dt Taher Halawa) in different fields. The committee designed a new energy system that has tremendously cut down energy consumption with continuous endeavors to create a green and sustainable industrial unit and novel manufacturing process that has reduced the ice production time to 6 hours.
Project Challenges:
Challenges for optimizing the existing design are numerous including minimizing power consumption and increasing the ice blocks production rate while increasing the quality of the product, water saving and boosting the ice hygiene.
Outcomes:
• The R&D team has succeeded in reducing in the energy consumption by 40% by exploiting novel methodologies which is significant relevant to the ice making industry.
• The Development continuum framework induced perpetual efforts and key mitigation principles that coined its success in a breakthrough time; hence, the production rate has tremendously increased which has directly reduced the production time. The conventional rate takes about 24hrs to complete the production cycle. However, by implementing the innovative techniques, the manufacturing rate has reduced to less than 6 hours to complete the ice cycle.
• Hygiene has improved as the new production systems cuts down the human interventions.
• The research team has succeeded in producing and ice that is multiple times vigorous than the current existing ice products; hence, it is known as Siberian ice.