Nowadays, as the increasing economy of peoples life, more and more people are in need of ice rink . Therefore, many engineer company is worried about designing a best ice rink refrigeration system with reliability and energy efficient goal. Here are some best suggestions for you before you build an ice rink. Better take a look and it will help you save your time and money.

1. Refrigeration system features

The refrigeration system of indoor ice skating rink usually adopts two refrigeration methods:
1) Direct expansion and indirect cooling. Direct expansion adopts condensing unit;
2) Indirect cooling adopts\screw type low-temperature chiller, Glycol is used as a refrigerant to form ice on the rink. At present, uses indirect cooling methods is more popular in the ice rink market. The cooling host should select more than two, one of which can meet the cooling under normal load conditions. When the conditions are relatively bad or the operating host needs to be repaired, the other one can replace the operating host to work.
The unit can increase heating recovery devices, use condensation heat provide to the ice rink and Heating and melting ice crumbs under the floor. The brine pipe network usually uses low carbon seamless steel pipe with a size of 38mm * 3.5mm or a thin-walled polymer pipe with a diameter of 25mm, and the spacing between pipes is about 89~102mm. In order to ensure the smoothness of ice surface, usually used the support to make the pipe network level and fix its position.

In order to make the coolant evenly distributed in the pipe, the size of the collector tube is generally selected bigger so that the brine can pass through low speed and evenly enter each tube. Brine circulation system should adopt closed cycle to reduce pipeline corrosion. besides, the expansion tank should be set up to suit the change of brine volume with temperature.

2. Calculation of refrigeration load in ice field
The artificial ice load is divided into initial freezing load and maintaining load. Generally, it is based on experience and measured data. Load calculation methods include empirical data method, chart method, sub item calculation method, etc.

Reference to American ASHRAE indicators

3. Type selection of refrigerating mainframe
The hardness of the ice surface determines its hardness. Generally speaking, the hardness of the ice surface at -5 degree can meet the requirements. To meet the requirements of ice temperature -5 C, the ethylene glycol solution in pipe of the ice field is set at -15 C.
At present, “Hstars” brand has water cooled screw-type low temperature water chiller and air-cooled screw-type low temperature water chiller can choose, also be used without the standard selection of water pump and expansion water tank. it can work immediately at site after Connect pipe and electricity, It can also increase the heat recovery device, make the hot water at the same time, that will improve the economic efficiency.

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