ice generator

The ice generator is the part of the ice machine that actually produces the ice.

When most people refer to an ice generator, they mean this ice making subsystem alone, minus refrigeration.

The slurry ice generator is a scraped-surface vertical shell and tube heat exchanger.

The world's first patent for a slurry ice generator was filed by Sunwell Technologies Inc. of Canada in 1976.

Conventional ice generators produce sharp edged, dry ice fragments, not the small, spherical crystals found in slurry ice.

In 1844, an American physician, John Gorrie, built a refrigerator based on Oliver Evans' design to make ice to cool the air for his yellow fever patients, so can probably be said to be the father of the ice generator.

An ice maker, ice generator,or ice machine may refer to either a consumer device for making ice, found inside a home freezer; a stand-alone appliance for making ice, or an industrial machine for making ice on a large scale.

Its flow properties, high cooling capacity and flexibility in application make a slurry ice system a substitute for conventional ice generators and refrigeration systems, and offers improvements in efficiency: energy efficiency of 70%, compared to around 45% in standard systems, lower freon consumption per ton of ice and lower operating costs.