Fig. 60.
The compressing pump a is a peculiarly constructed suction and pressure pump, it draws out of the refrigerating pipes the vaporised carbonic acid by which they have been cooled and then subjects it to a pressure which helps to effect its reconversion into the liquid state.
The condenser b consists of a coil of pipes over which a current of cold water is kept flowing and the compressed carbonic acid vapour, passing from the compressor into these pipes, is there cooled and condensed by the surrounding water, so as to be transferred back to the refrigerator through a valve fitted to it for that purpose. The outer vessel of the condenser is constructed of cast-iron, in one piece with the compressor frame. These cooling arrangements are constructed either with or without mechanical ventilators. In figures 63 a and 63 b the compressing pump and condenser are represented as placed on the ground floor, while the refrigerator is situated in the cellar space lying beside them and at a lower level, in such a manner that both the systems of cooling pipes are not situated upon the roof of the cellar, but run along it at regular distances parallel to the side walls of the cellar. The compressor and condenser form one apparatus and the former is driven by a steam engine.
In the cooling cellar, the refrigerator is generally fixed to the walls in such a way that the warm chocolate, taken into the cellar, can be at once placed upon the stages formed by the system of cooling pipes, and so there is some advantage in having the system of cooling pipes fitted along the roof of the cellar.
The machine which is diagrammed in fig. 60 possesses an hourly output of some 70000 calories, measured in salt water at -5 ° C. The compressor is driven directly by an electric motor, and a stirring apparatus is put in motion by the crankshaft of the compressor, the two being connected by an intermediate gearing.
Wegelin and Hübner put out cooling plants with salt water cooling, smaller and medium sized plants are on the contrary provided with so-called direct evaporation.
The diagram in fig. 61 shows an air-cooler as built of late by Esher, Wyss & Co. for chocolate cooling plants.
These air coolers are especially used for direct evaporation of carbonic acid gas. They consist of three groups of ribbed wrought-iron pipes, the whole constituting a system supported in a frame work of U-shaped and angular iron. The separate tubes are welded and bent together. The ribbed bodies are in themselves square shaped, and apart from the tube opening have a nozzle introduced in their centre, which pressed firmly against the press pipe effects a favourable transmission of heat in the case of large surface areas of the support, the more so as the tubes are square shaped.
Among the numerous advantages of this machine can be numbered the abolition of the refrigerator and brine pump, prompt and instantaneous refrigeration when the machine is started, and ease of control, as a flange connection occurs immediately in front of the machine.