CONCEÇÃO, PROJETO E DESENVOLVIMENTO DE UMA VITRINA REFRIGERADA DE GELATARIA

Abstract

The main objective of the shop ice cream refrigerator is to guarantee the conservation of ice creams, as well as, to maintain them with the wanted texture. This objective is guaranteed through the imposition of a temperature interval to the shop ice cream refrigerator. The Portuguese norm NP3293 2008 indicates that the ice creams should be maintained to temperatures same or inferior to -18°C and never to cross the -15°C, however, the existent shop ice cream refrigerator present in its majority problems to maintain this temperature interval. This article present, in a detailed way, the study and development of a new shop ice cream refrigerator. This equipment should guarantee the ice creams quality, maintaining them to a temperature of ­18ºC. To optimize the energy efficiency, the cooling fluid was analyzed, having chosen the R507 in spite of being different from the usually used. In order to minimize the thermal load it was realized a carefully selection of components and of thermal and acoustic isolations. The control system, guaranteed through a PLC, it was designed and developed with the purpose of allowing the best energy efficiency of compressor and condenser fan, in agreement with the shop ice cream refrigerator temperature. Keywords: Mechanical design, Thermodynamic simulation; Control systems; Instrumentation; 3D modelling