Case studies

Project: „Curl Aberdeen“ ice rink / Great Britain


Planning / Implementation / Main components

Star Refrigeration Ltd.

Refrigerant

Ammonia (NH3)

System start-up

2004

The "Curl Aberdeen" ice rink in Summerhill, Aberdeen, is one of the centres for Scotland's traditional winter sport of curling. In order to cut back on the increased operating and maintenance costs, the operator instructed the company Star Refrigeration to plan and install an efficient system running on natural refrigerants. The company which has provided high efficiency cooling solutions to around 70 % of the UK’s ice and curling rinks designed a refrigerating system that runs with ammonia.

Demands

An efficient system running on natural refrigerants should reduce the ice rink’s operating and maintenance costs and fulfil the high demands made of the ice surface in terms of constant quality, hardness and temperature.

Solution

Star Refrigeration installed a critical charged central ammonia plant with a mere 80 kg of ammonia. The system has a refrigerating capacity of 253 kW to cool the secondary refrigerant glycol to -10 °C before it is pumped through a network of pipes integrated in the floor of the rink.

Technical data:

 

Type of facility

Central ammonia refrigerating plant

Refrigerant

NH3

Refrigerant volume

80 kg

Secondary refrigerant

Glycol

Refrigerating capacity

253 kW

Main components:

2 reciprocating compressors, 1 accumulator on the intake side, 2 glycol pumps, 2 drive motors, 1 electronic control panel, 1 external evaporative condenser

Special features / Comments:

A desuperheater on the high-pressure side makes thermal use of the compression heat of the refrigerant. The energy recovered in this way is used for the underfloor heating of the remaining facilities apart from the ice rink itself.

Contact:

 

Star Refrigeration Ltd.
Dr. Rob Lamb
Prime Enterprise Park, Prime Park Way
Derby DE1 3QB
United Kingdom

Phone: +44 1332 756041
Fax: +44 1332 757289
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www.star-ts.co.uk