Review on frosting, defrosting and frost management techniques in industrial food freezers

D Badri, C Toublanc, O Rouaud, M Havet - Renewable and Sustainable …, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper reviews the results of frosting, defrosting and frost management research that
have been reported over the past fifty years. The literature can be split into three categories …

Heat transfer characteristics of the heat exchangers for refrigeration, air conditioning and heat pump systems under frosting, defrosting and dry/wet conditions—A …

MS Patil, JH Seo, MY Lee - Applied thermal engineering, 2017 - Elsevier
Heat transfer characteristics and thermal performance enhancements of heat exchangers for
thermal systems under frosting, defrosting, and dry/wet operating conditions have been …

[HTML][HTML] Method to delay frost formation under high relative humidity by choosing proper heat exchange temperature difference and air velocity

Z Zhu, W Dou, B Dai, X Shan, J Shen - Case Studies in Thermal …, 2023 - Elsevier
To delay frost formation and maintain high heat transfer capacity of an evaporator, a closed-
loop wind tunnel was designed and constructed to investigate the effect of heat exchange …

An experimental study on the air side heat transfer performance of the perforated fin-tube heat exchangers under the frosting conditions

X Liu, J Yu, G Yan - Applied Thermal Engineering, 2020 - Elsevier
In this paper, perforated fins were applied to enhance the air side heat transfer performance
under frosting conditions for fin-tube heat exchangers with large fin pitches. The frost mass …

Experimental assessment and semi empirical estimation of frost accretion—A case study on a spine-finned inverted-V tube array evaporator

I Carvajal-Mariscal, JE De León-Ruiz… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Present work focuses on frost accretion in a spine-finned inverted-V tube array evaporator.
An experimental evaluation was performed using a standard issue, vertical top-mount, 18 …

Experimental study of the characteristic of frosting on low-temperature air cooler

Q Haijie, L Weizhong, D Bo, Z Zhihai… - Experimental thermal and …, 2014 - Elsevier
In order to find out the influencing factors of frosting on air coolers, the experiments were
conducted for air coolers under frosting, and the frost layer thicknesses under various …

Effect of temperature variation on ice cream recrystallization during freezer defrost cycles

MH Sharqawy, HD Goff - Journal of Food Engineering, 2022 - Elsevier
Ice cream quality is influenced by temperature fluctuations during storage which cause ice
crystal growth or recrystallization. Minimum temperature fluctuations occur during normal …

Joint effect of input asymmetrical velocity profile and initial turbulence intensity on hydraulics of a separated diffuser of GTE combustion chamber

MM Gur'yanova, SA Piralishvili - Russian Aeronautics (Iz VUZ), 2016 - Springer
This paper presents the regularities of effect of the input asymmetry of the velocity profile on
the flow structure in a separated diffuser of the GTE annular combustion chamber. These …

Comparison of parallel-and counter-flow circuiting in an industrial evaporator under frosting conditions

NF Aljuwayhel, DT Reindl, SA Klein… - International journal of …, 2007 - Elsevier
This paper describes a theoretical model of a large-scale, ammonia-fed evaporator coil used
in an industrial refrigeration system and operating under low temperature air and refrigerant …

Frost: on air-cooling evaporators

DT Reindl, TB Jekel - ASHRAE Journal, 2009 - go.gale.com
In this article, we focus on the operation of air-cooling evaporators in industrial refrigeration
applications at temperatures below freezing. These heat exchangers are generally applied …