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• W ater Vending Machines Provide Cash For Water • Teehans Keep Tinley Ice Growing Through The Years • Corbin Ice Fire Update • 14 Trends To Follow In the Convenient Store Fast-track

February 2014 Vol. 197 │ No. 2 ISSN #0034-3137

EDITORIAL STAFF Mary Y. Cronley Editor/Publisher refrigerationmag@gmail.com (404) 819-5446

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LOCATION. LOCATION. LOCATION.

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CS NEWS IDENTIFIES 14 KEY TRENDS FOR 2014

By Joe Cronley

From Covenience Store News

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IT TAKES GUTS TO DRINK YOUR TAP WATER

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IPIA CONVENTION PHOTOS FROM BONITA SPRINGS

By Don Brown

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THE HISTORY OF TINLEY ICE

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STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESSFUL COLD ENERGY AUDITS

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CORBIN ICE PLANT FIRE UPDATE

How the Teehan family built Tinley Ice

By David Ward, P.E.

The fire culprit and what Corbin Ice is doing to rebuild

More highlights from the November IPIA Convention

DEPARTMENTS spICE Diversification: Ice and Fuel Graduates to Ice and Water UPCOMING EVENT Make Plans For the 2014 Grand Event

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Diversification: Ice and Fuel Graduates To Ice and Water...

Editor's Note: This month’s guest editorial was written by Joe Cronley, longtime research editor and writer for REFRIGERATION Magazine. Joe has mined data regarding the packaged ice industry for many years, bringing a strong marketing perspective to our pages. He can be reached at refrigerationmag@gmail.com.

My father was born in 1932, and one of his stories is that as a child in St. Louis, his morning chore was to go to the basement and shovel coal into the furnace. If he didn’t do it, the house didn’t get warm. It was a huge breakthrough when the family got a stoker, a thermostatically activated screw conveyor that fed coal into the furnace.

My grandparents’ house had a small cast iron hatch in the house’s foundation next to the driveway, a coal scuttle. As needed, the coal truck backed up the driveway and emptied a ton or two into the coal bin. Having grown up in the south, a coal scuttle was a novelty to me, but I understand that pre-World War II homes in most colder climates all had one. The furnace at their home had been replaced with natural gas many years before, but they never got the iron hatch bricked over. I suppose it was sealed, for if small children could have opened it and climbed through we certainly would have.

In a college economics class, ice and coal was taught as a model for business diversification.

They are complementary seasonal businesses, each requiring home delivery routes, with 12 month demand. It makes perfect sense. Many of our readers whose businesses were built in the early 20th century still keep the Ice & Coal name, and at least a few still sell coal, even if they no longer deliver. Nobody remembers who brought the trucks of coal to my father's house, but it’s a decent bet that it was the same guys who brought ice. Dad doesn’t remember having an icebox, but he’s pretty sure they did.

Especially this winter, seasonality is still a sticking point of the packaged ice industry. Even in Florida and Southern California, demand drops in winter months. Since the end of the coal days, we haven’t found a good business balance for the winter months.

In this issue we’re examining a few alternatives for diversifying your product mix. Like any business model, it’s not one size fits all. We’ve known of packaged ice suppliers whose winter business is firewood, pelletized wood fuel, Christmas trees, even snow removal. Fuel oil is a natural complement where it’s used, but the realities of the fuel oil business are that it could overshadow your packaged ice business. We believe that a lot of shuttered ice plants transitioned to fuel oil and found enough money there to make it a 12 month business.

This is a strong industry that can get stronger. An ice & coal business, even a fuel oil business, is built on a home delivery model of the past century. What you have today are relationships with retailers, and the fact that you are making regular trips to retailers to restock. We want to make those relationships work harder for you.

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"In a college economics class, ice and coal was taught as a model for business diversification.

They are complementary seasonal businesses, each requiring home delivery routes, with 12 month demand."

Adding Additional Cash Flows

By Mary Cronley, Editor/Publisher

In 1930, General Motors and DuPont formed the Kinetic Chemical Company to produce Freon. By 1935, Frigidaire and its competitors had sold 8 million new refrigerators in the United States using Freon made by the Kinetic Chemical Company. Those sales could have come from the ice producer.

Having door to door clients in place for the block ice sold from the horse and wagon, the ice man could have educated and value added to his customers' lives by transitioning them from ice for the ice box to a quality of life changing refrigerator. Instead, they resisted the refrigerator as a crazy fad, which would break down, spoil your food and poison your family… a missed opportunity.

The bottled water trend took off like a bottle rocket, but most packaged ice producers have not been able to build value for their product like the water producers did. This is an opportunity for the packaged ice producers to leverage the relationships they have – not the product. Bottled water was dismissed early on as a profitable venture for us. While it remains highly competitive, bottled water now outsells soda in several U.S. markets currently, primarily along the coasts. "It's convenience we are talking about," said Kim Jeffery, president and chief executive officer of Nestle Waters North America, at the Reuters Food and Agriculture Summit in Chicago. Jeffery sees water eventually outselling soda overall, as U.S. consumption of soda declines.

Don Brown, Barbara and their best canine assistant, Shadow, in front of one of the highly successful water vending machines.

A World leader in Industrial Water Vendors by U.S. has been welcomed by, and is a member of, the IPIA. I met its national sales manager, Don Brown at the IPIA meeting in October and we have become fast friends. To me, he represents the epitome of entrepreneurship, devotion to business, and the trends and market evidence which explain and drive our economy and our preferences. He has been in ‘water’ since the early 80’s and knows of what he speaks.

I see great things for the water vending business, and with the strength of the ice manufacturers locations, I hope to see great things come of the seasonal void in our market today.

Don’s article on water, and our coverage on his company and the opportunity his machines represent, shouldn’t be missed in this issue.

Aaron Costic of Elegant Ice Creations has done it again.

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OBODY KNOWS HOW MANY ICE MERCHANDISERS THERE ARE IN PLACE. THE GOVERNMENT SAYS THERE ARE AS MANY AS 63,000 CONVENIENCE STORES AND 24,000 SUPERMARKETS, AND THERE'S AN ICE MERCHANDISER AT ALL OF THEM. PLUS, THERE ARE THOUSANDS MORE AT PACKAGE STORES, RECREATIONAL SITES, AND MANY OTHER LOCATIONS.

Diversification

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NE THING THAT EACH ICE PRODUCER HAS THAT FOOD DISTRIBUTORS TRY DESPERATELY TO BUILD IS A RELATIONSHIP WITH THE RETAILER, WHETHER IT’S THE STORE’S OWNER, A BUYER, OR A CHAIN STORE EXECUTIVE. YOUR DRIVERS SHOULD HAVE RELATIONSHIPS WITH THE MANAGERS OF THEIR STOPS. THIS IS THE ASSET – NOT YOUR PLANT, NOT YOUR TRUCKS, NOT YOUR BRAND NAME – THAT HAS VALUE, AND THE ASSET YOU CAN BUILD ON. YOU’VE GOT A RELATIONSHIP EVERYWHERE YOU HAVE A MERCHANDISER.

There’s a company in a complementary industry that functions a lot like packaged ice. They have machines at 23,000 locations across the U.S., many in stores where you have a merchandiser, and yet lots of ice producers don’t know this market sector or care much about it.

Glacier Water Services started in 1983 and today its primary business is the machines you see in front of or inside grocery stores that dispenses purified water into 1 or 5 gallon containers.

They charge a low price, the consumer gets purified water for a fraction of what home delivery costs, and everybody’s a winner. Glacier owns the machines and works a revenue split with the grocery.

A company in the Atlanta area has noticed the market penetration of the ice industry, and they’re trying to provide a way for ice producers to leverage these relationships and capture a major share of the water vending market. The company's National Sales Manager Don Brown says, “That’s why I like the ice guys – you already have locations.”

Water Vendors by US has developed their machine, based on a reverse osmosis system with UV treatment and carbon filtration, for placement at outdoor locations. It’s a self service unit, hooked up to the location’s power and water supply. The customer brings their own container, 9 REFRIGERATION Magazine │ January 2014

the store pays for the utilities, and the owner of the machine is responsible for monitoring and maintenance.

Brown’s company doesn’t acquire the locations, which is why he likes ice producers. He does have some strong intelligence about the Glacier program, and believes that a more relationship based operator can do better. Most of his existing operators split revenue with the location, and the split is up to the owner’s negotiating skills. Water volume is an obvious factor, and the owner will need to understand break-even before offering the location.

An efficient machine, he tells us, will do $700 per month revenue in a good market. After the split, the owner’s cost is in amortizing the machine, consumables, and service time. The

last two costs should interest ice producers: the consumables consist of monitoring and changing filters.

Service time should be a fraction of what servicing an ice location is, and your costs are the filter costs.

Brown has been around long enough to know some common ice producer objections. Some have balked at sending an employee around to empty the cash from machines. He offers a split door model that lets the store empty the machine daily, with monitoring features to make sure you get paid. His outdoor models are stainless steel, and the drop-in lit graphics panels can be swapped out with your brand name.

Packaged ice producers do have a huge advantage that a national Continued on page 10 February 2014 │ REFRIGERATION Magazine 9

Diversification

player can’t touch, in the sheer number and variety of retailers we have. Glacier, the predominant player in the market, is based in the San Diego area and concentrates on big chain locations. Regional chains and multi-location locally-owned stores know the concept and see the sales potential, but may not be on a big player’s radar. Plenty of single location businesses will be prime candidates as well.

Brown says that his operators get good results from test markets, offering them a generous revenue split at no capital cost. Many have

Water Vendors by US machines prepped and ready for shipping to Florida.

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sufficient plumbing in place to drop a machine in without any effort, and once it’s there they like the money.

The machine does require a drain, a sticking point for some, but for a split of $700 a month, most see the potential of hiring a plumber to come out one time.

Perhaps the best part of the Water Vendors by Us system is the demand curve: it has some seasonality, but nothing like ice. It could smooth out cash flows in these winter months.

Plus, Brown points out, companies like Glacier and Ice House America are trying to develop a market for on site

ice production. The more offerings an ice producer has to keep the retailer tied in, the less likely the retailer is to bring in an alternative system.

With 2,000 machines in the field, Brown isn’t nipping at Glacier’s heels yet. What he does have is a reliable, strong system at a good price point.

What packaged ice producers have is access to those 87,000 grocery and convenience stores. Brown sees a natural fit there, a win/win.

Smoothing out the winter cash flows makes it hard to disagree with him.

2014 key trends

CSNews Identifies 14 Key Trends for 2014 Editor’s note: The January issue of Convenience Store News had a great article on 14 trends for 2014. This is their offering on C-stores and follows what CSN claims to do on the cover of every issue: "Keeping the Industry Ahead of What's Next.”

It’s helpful to read almost anything that keeps training me how to look outside my comfort zone and see how other people think…I believe it keeps things interesting, and sometimes changes what I thought I knew.

On the cover of every issue of Convenience Store News is our tagline, "Keeping the Industry Ahead of What's Next." In that spirit, our editors have brainstormed what we believe are the 14 key trends that will define and shape the convenience store industry in 2014.

Some are trends that will bring new challenges to the industry, such as the decrease in mobility that is happening as technology makes it easier for people to shop and connect without ever leaving their house; or the movement to raise the tobacco purchasing age to 21, which will put great strain on a category already limping under immense pressure.

Some are trends that will bring new opportunities to the industry, such as the influx of mobile consumers who are driving adoption of mobile apps, mobile payments and more. The way Americans are consuming food and beverages now -- constantly grazing and constantly on the go -- also means more occasions for c-stores to capture their businesses with the right offering.

Still other trends are a sign of how far this industry has come. For instance, c-stores are gaining serious credibility not only with consumers, but also in the retail industry where they are being viewed as a major threat by competitors -- and as a result, are being imitated and borrowed from. Likewise, the convenience store industry could soon be known as the convenience restaurant industry as more operators deliver foodservice items rivaling the best quick-service and fast-casual restaurants.

CSNews' Full List of 14 Trends for 2014

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Driving in Decline

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The C-store Image Tipping Point

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Living Wage Movement

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New Hotspots for Growth

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The Upscaling of C-stores

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The Obamacare Decision Time

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Alternative Fuels Come Into Focus

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The Mobile Customer

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The "Age" of Tobacco

What all 14 of these trends have in common, though, is that they illustrate the growing number of moving parts convenience retailers must juggle in order to be successful today, tomorrow and in the year ahead. Staying ahead is a requirement for staying in business.

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Energy Saturation

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Segmenting the Customer Segments

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Coming Soon: The Convenience Restaurant Industry?

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IT TAKES

GUTS

TO DRINK YOUR OWN

TAP WATER By: Don Brown, National Sales Manager at Water Vendors by US waterbyus@yahoo.com, (770) 454-7023

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realize the title of this article is a pretty bold statement and hopefully after reading this article you will agree. Most people actually know very little about the properties of water and how important it is in our daily lives. For example, do you know that water is one of the best insulators of electricity known to man? Pure water does not conduct electricity. Instead, it‘s the impurities in water that conduct electricity.

So how do these impurities get into our drinking water?

We start with the hydrological cycle.

Surface water is heated up by the sun, converting it into vapor which rises, leaving its impurities behind. This vapor cools in the upper atmosphere and reforms into water which falls to earth in the form of rain or snow. This water is basically distilled water.

It is what some people call hungry water.

Think of the water molecule like a sponge.

It picks up and dissolves everything with which it comes into contact. This is a blessing and a curse. The quality of your 12 REFRIGERATION Magazine │ February 2014

tap water is solely determined by what it comes in contact with before you drink it. So water from a mountain spring has less impurities than water from a major metropolitan city next to the ocean.

There are five major groups of impurities that are found in all tap water: 1. Undissolved solids: Most common are sand and silt.

2. D issolved solids: The most common are mineral salts, particularly calcium carbonate (limestone), which is the white powder that forms when you heat or freeze water.

Learn More Deirdre Imus with FoxNews.com uncovered more safety concerns regarding tap water in the recently-published, "How clean is your city's drinking water?" Read this informative article at: www.foxnews.com/health/2014/02/03/ how-clean-is-your-city-drinking-water

3. O rganic compounds: These are any man made chemicals with carbon in its molecular chain.

Chlorine is the most common organic since municipalities use this to kill bacteria.

4. L iving organisms: Bacteria and viruses. While the other impurities can cause long term health problems, these impurities can make you sick very quickly.

5. P harmaceuticals: Many people are flushing their expired prescriptions down the toilet.

Let’s take a look at the path your drinking water takes before it gets to your drinking glass.

As rainwater falls from the clouds, it starts picking up any airborne impurities. That’s why the air smells so fresh after a rain storm. The rainwater then falls on the ground and starts picking up any number of impurities which could include minerals, pesticides, asbestos, nitrates and many other impurities. If you are consuming surface water then you will find bacteria and decaying plant and animal matter in your water.

Municipalities take this water and can use over 100 chemicals to treat their water. Upon treating the water, they send it through miles of DECADES-OLD pipes. The U.S. has over 1 million miles of cement asbestos pipe.

I hope I have given you some good reasons to start thinking about your tap water. If you are making ice from raw tap water, just realize that while it looks clear, there are still numerous impurities within it.

An inside look at a water main pipe supplying tap water to an affluent metro-Atlanta neighborhood.

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In Bonita Springs

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Business focus

The history of Tinley Ice

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inley Ice Company, University Park, Illinois, began like so many of the companies the ice industry has come to know: bagging by hand in the back room with a scoop and twist ties. Harry Teehan was working for his father in the family liquor store when he got out of the Navy. It was 1970, and ice was becoming more in a demand.

Harry and his father, Harold Sr., were bagging ice from an old ice maker that produced 500 pounds per day. This machine could not meet the demand of the customers. The other grocery and liquor stores in town either did not carry ice as a product or their ice provider could not keep them supplied on busy weekends during the summer. Seeing a business opportunity, Harry purchased three 1,000 pound a day icemakers and a Leer 8’x16’ storage unit that held 500 10 pound bags. The business grew, once word spread about the abundance of bagged ice at Teehan’s Liquors.

soft. Word spread about Tinley Ice from one store owner to the next ~ about how the company provided personal delivery to its customers on weekends, regardless of the heat. This was a true accomplishment for the 1970’s, and customers began moving their business from their current vendors to Tinley Ice, mainly due to its excellent service. In just a couple of years, Tinley Ice had 20+ regular route customers.

By 1972, Tinley Ice Company was a legitimate, thriving business. Harry was making deliveries all over town in a non-refrigerated pickup truck to liquor stores and gas stations. Harry was unable to travel further than 5 miles in either direction without the ice getting

This was how the business operated entering the 1980’s, and soon the Morris Machines were not producing enough product to meet demand. So a plan was put in place to build a factory from the ground up with help from various companies such as Automatic Ice

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Eventually, Harry bought a refrigerated truck and throughout the 1970’s the business grew. Harry purchased two Morris industrial ice makers in 1978 which, combined, produced 30,000 pounds per day. Production changed from bagging by hand, to a volumetric bagger with a heat sealer closure system. Storage was moved from the 8x16 to a 24x28 freezer.

Truck loading was still done by hand to service the 60 or so customers in the neighboring towns.

Tinley's Equipment (top to bottom): Tinley's new Premier Tech Palletizer from Modern Ice; Two Morris Ice Makers; Hamer 540 Form Fill and Seal Bagger

Business focus Systems, Index Supply (Alan Underwood) among others.

In 1987, the company’s new, modern ice plant was complete and in operation. It consisted of 3 Vogt P-24 self-contained NH3 ice makers producing 60 tons per day. These machines were located on the 2nd story and ice was gravity fed into a Camco Bin. The ice was screened and bagged by volumetrics and closed by Hamer 125 Tiers. This was the first time that the ice has also been palletized. The freezer was upgraded to a 25’x50’ floor plan which allowed double stacking as well.

Tinley Ice’s fleet increased, growing to four distribution trucks which expanded the company’s product to most of the southern suburbs as well as the south side of Chicago. All of these changes and improvements enabled the company to triple its customer base over the next ten years.

Sales were booming in the 1990’s, and more trucks were purchased to distribute product to the expanding market.

Harry’s 11-year-old son, Tim, started helping out during the summers, doing odd jobs around the plant, and helping the customers who came to purchase ice right from the dock.

Eventually, Tim ended up as a delivery truck helper and also bagged ice in the production room.

By the late 1990’s, sales were so good that even this plant would fail to produce enough ice in the peak summer months.

Harry would rely on purchasing ice from other ice companies in different regions of the country who had ample supply.

His son Tim got his CDL license and delivered ice during the summer months when he was home from college ~ sometimes working 15 hour days. Tim graduated in 2002 with a B.S. in Accounting and joined his father in the business.

In 2006, Tinley Ice relocated to University Park, about 10 miles south of the original plant. The new plant was more than four times the square footage of the Tinley plant. All new equipment was purchased for this plant. ISSI supplied the ice making system which was designed for 200 tons per day with expansion to 400 tons per day. The ice makers chosen were two Morris 100 ton tube machines. These are driven by two Vilter 4516 XL compressors.

Geen Industries out of Addison, IL supplied the Reverse Osmosis water filtration system used to supply purified water to the ice makers.

Automatic Ice Systems, led by Doug Carpenter, helped Tim design the packaging aspect of the new plant. Not often did Doug get a chance to build a production system with no space restrictions. Tim and Doug both shared a goal to make a system which was high quality, efficient, reliable, expandable

and affordable. What they came up with started with a 65 ton Keith Walking Floor bulk storage bin. This fed into a Matthiesen Snow Reel through stainless screw conveyors. After screening, ice is distributed to four bagging lines, two of which have Hamer 540 Form Fill and Seal baggers. The entire process from ice harvest to the finished bag is done automatically. This is accomplished through the custom designed AIS Processing Control System. In eight years of running this plant, Tim said this is the smoothest running plant you could ever imagine.

In order to add to the automation of the plant, a palletizer was needed to eliminate the need for manual stacking. In 2013, Tinley Ice purchased a Premier Tech palletizer from Modern Ice. This machine palletizes 10 pound bags at a rate of up to 40/min.

Now, the entire production can be operated by one individual.

Tim sums it up: “A lot has changed in the last 40 plus years at Tinley Ice and the ice industry in general. To think it all started with a small 500 pound a day ice maker, and to now see the 400,000 pounds a day being churned out automatically, really puts things into perspective. Imagine what it will be like in another 40 years.”

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Energy audits: part two

STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESSFUL REFRIGERATION

ENERGY AUDITS PART TWO

By David Ward, P.E.

ast month we promised you an examination of all phases of an energy audit and the results that can be expected. Here it is.

Phase One: Initial Walk-through In this phase, the equipment is reset to the original specifications, and we make certain that all the operating conditions are as they should be. Any maintenance issues that have been discovered are resolved. In a typical audit, this can result in a 3-5% energy savings by itself.

Often, the audit will end here, since this phase has a relatively low cost, provides a very fast payback, and should yield excellent information about the general operation of the facility. Such a limited audit, however, will not unearth deeper problems that may be causing significant operating inefficiencies.

Phase Two: Data Collection This is where the real work begins and the biggest pitfalls lie. The main areas of focus here are measurement and trending of system operations.

It’s very easy here to go too far and collect more data than necessary. This can slow down the auditing process and increase costs. Therefore, metering and data acquisition must be balanced with accuracy.

In most cases, 15-minute interval data over the course of seven days will suffice, but sometimes more frequent data are required. To capture the cycle frequency of a compressor or valve, for instance, one-minute interval data over the course of a few hours or 30-second interval data for one hour may be necessary.

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on a key parameter, then having to do everything over again.

This is where thorough preparation pays off.

It is important to understand that energy use is fundamentally a function of three variables: energy input, work output, and hours. Therefore, critical systems need to be identified and evaluated to determine the minimum number of points required to define the three variables.

When in doubt, it’s better to monitor an unnecessary parameter than to miss a necessary one.

Assuming the hours of operation are known and fixed by the production process, two primary areas must be evaluated for potential energy savings: load reduction and system efficiency (kW/ton). Load reduction is relatively simple because it is mostly limited by process requirements. Sometimes though, opportunities for load reduction exist elsewhere.

In the milk plant, for instance, hot, humid summer air infiltrating into the space adds significantly to the refrigeration load. Temperature and relative humidity(RH) measurements taken every 15 minutes over the course of a few days identify this problem. Suggested solutions include automatic doors, better dock seals, changes in traffic patterns, and changes in airflow.

Other areas are examined for load reduction: improvements in washdown procedures and ventilation of the humidity created, better incoming product temperature control, elimination of unnecessary lighting and motor loads, and modifications in packaging, preparation, or other practices where loads can be relocated elsewhere.

Load reductions at other types of facilities follow the same fundamental approach: a main load around which the refrigeration system is

Energy audits: part two

designed, and ancillary loads that are added on later.

The main load is critically evaluated to determine if any adjustments can be made, but often, the ancillary loads offer the greatest potential energy savings.

during a production day, then again during the weekend, or on a non-production day, for comparison. This is a key requirement of a refrigeration system audit, and may reveal surprising results.

Potential refrigeration efficiency improvements are tougher to identify and quantify. Those are defined by kilowatt (kW) input per ton of cooling output. KW measurements are relatively straightforward, but accurately determining tons of cooling delivered coincident with energy used is difficult.

Here, more detail and accuracy are required.

During this phase, the data are collected and reviewed after the first few hours or the first production cycle. They’re examined to verify that the meters are operating as they should, that the data being gathered are useful, and that there are no surprises requiring closer examination.

Commonly found problems include meters that are broken or out of calibration, time increments that are too long or too short, and data that is beyond the meter's range. A little time spent on an initial review can eliminate a great deal of lost time later. More information on this subject is available at the National Institute of Standards and Technology website at www.nist.gov.

Accurate capacity (tons) measurement invariably boils down to measuring temperature differential, which is relatively easy, and coincident measurement of flow rate, which is more difficult.

Potentially, there are two different types of flow to measure: chilled water, glycol, or a brine solution passing through a heat exchanger and circulating to the loads, and refrigerant circulated directly to the loads.

In the first case, pump specifications and pressure differentials are used to calculate the flow rate.

Note though that pumps often operate outside the manufacturers' pump curves.

In the second case, to measure refrigerant flow, compressor specifications along with the existing operating conditions are used.

With detailed manufacturer's specifications and accurate operating conditions for the existing pumps and compressors, the flow rates of fluids and refrigerants can be determined to a high level of confidence.

It’s advisable to leave the metering equipment in place until the completion of this phase. Frequently, the analysis results in questions being raised about the data or facility operations that require modifications or more refined metering. This is greatly simplified if the meters have been left in place.

Phase Three: Data Analysis This is the discovery and resolution phase of the audit process. The first step is to review Phase 1 in terms of the required outputs or deliverables. It may be necessary to modify these requirements based on what has been learned during the first two phases, so before any significant time is spent pouring through the data and information, stop to regroup and redefine the requirements.

"It’s important that kW and ton measurements be simultaneous.

Energy use and load vary greatly over the course of a day, and the refrigeration system responds to these changes."

It’s important that kW and ton measurements be simultaneous. Energy use and load vary greatly over the course of a day, and the refrigeration system responds to these changes. It is this constant fluctuation that provides the details of a system’s operating efficiency and the clues to the actions required for improvement. Look for temperature and pressure fluctuations and system response time. Take one-minute data for 24 hours at least once

The data and information are then organized into groups based on the required output. Possible data groups include energy use, HVAC system, refrigeration system, production, and loads. The data for each group are reduced and refined into a form that can be clearly compared with other groups. Graphs of hourly data for each day are very helpful. After the comparison, the information is refined and compared again.

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Corbin Ice Plant Fire

Corbin Ice Plant Fire Update Refrigeration Magazine kept in touch with Jreg Botner, owner of Corbin Ice in Corbin, Ky., after his plant fire. Thanks to many in the industry, Jreg shared that he is up and running and making some good decisions about the future.

Employee retention has always been tough for our industry, and sometimes the problems with our hires run deep.

Jreg says, “The fire was started by a current employee to cover up a robbery. He was arrested the next day for the robbery, and then admitted to starting the fire. He has been charged with 2nd degree arson."

"The offices and warehouse side of the plant was a complete loss. The bagging room, ice machines, compressor room, and rake room only had minor smoke damage. We were able to get our production back up and running on January 10th."

"We are planning on getting started rebuilding within the next month, either at our current location or at a new site."

"We would like to thank Home City Ice, Harman Ice, Modern Ice, ISSI, and Norcan Packaging for all the help in getting us back up and running."

"The employee that started the fire claimed he was stealing to pay for his drug habit. We currently drug screen all employees, both randomly and before hiring them for employment. I am not sure how well this works. We have had a lot of problems that always get blamed on drug habits, but I have only had one employee ever fail a drug test. So I don't think that just drug testing solves the problem of employee drug use."

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Corbin Ice Plant Fire

The aftermath from the fire.

Opposite page (top to bottom): office and main warehouse during tear-down; pallets of roll stock ice bags; inside main warehouse; loading dock Current page (left to right): ice bag storage room; inside main warehouse

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• Rake Bins • Recloseable Bags • Refrigerated Buildings • Refrigerated Transporters •R efrigerated Walk-in Coolers & Freezers • Refrigeration Systems • Robotics • Roll Stock • Rotating Tables •R oute Management Systems • Screw Conveyors • S ensing and Monitoring Equipment • Snow Removal • S torage Bins & Rakes Storage • Stretch Wrap Machines •W ater Chillers & Water Treatment

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October 29-31 will be exhibit hall hours, speakers, educational sessions and social activities to have some fun and network.

Over 100 booths will feature the newest products and services exclusively for the packaged ice industry.....40,000 square feet of meeting space and exhibits!

Orlando is the #3 convention destination in the U.S. and #1 convention destination for affordability and recreational/ entertainment options. And shorts are still in vogue in the moderate temperatures of late October.

Energy audits: part two

Strategies for Successful Refrigeration Energy Audits: Part Two

C O N TI N U E D Next, the data are examined one group at a time to determine where modifications can be made to reduce energy use, and what the modifications should be. This is extremely subjective and the examination process will vary greatly based on what is discovered or who is doing the analysis.

From this, a list of specific energy saving measures is generated tailored to the facility's needs based on the information provided by the data. This process can be relatively imaginative, and energy saving measures should be generated with little regard for their expected costs since later, the list will be quickly reduced to the most costeffective measures. Sometimes, measures that do not make sense on their own are grouped with others to generate a more comprehensive energy reduction strategy.

The Results The milk plant data yields both expected and unexpected results. It’s determined that the suction pressure is lower than necessary, a new condenser is required, improved dock door seals are recommended, and compressor cycling is not properly following the load. The data also leads to examining the refrigerant for water contamination, and shows that one of the compressors is running continuously, but doing very little cooling.

The largest surprise is found in the warehouse, where a temperature meter reveals that a rear outside exit door is being left open continuously, except when the manager or the energy auditor walk through, because the covered stairway is being used as the unofficial smoking area. This is adding greatly to the system load.

In summary, an effective energy audit that has been developed to address the specific needs of the facility is a valuable tool that can keep it operating at peak efficiency.

David Ward is a licensed, professional engineer in private practice in Framingham, Mass., and has served as chairman of ASHRAE's Technical Committee on Custom Engineered Refrigeration Systems.

This article originally appeared in Contracting Business magazine.

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• Turbo CB38 Rake • Gentoo Block Press • S crew Conveyor Drive Packages for 9" and 12" conveyors (great condition)

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• P34AL x 1 ⅛" icc (1994)

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USED EQUIPMENT FOR SALE TURBOS

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• Turbo #1 (year 1984), 18 ton model CAR36LR – $5,000.00

• Turbo #2 (year 1983), 20 ton model CAR40LR – $5,000.00

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FOR SALE • 12 ft. stainless steel, 9" vertical auger w/2 hp motor $500.

• 50 can block tank, 400lb. cans complete, $5000.

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• Hamer #2 - model #FP7T –

TURBO RAKE BINS • Turbo, L- 22' 9" x W-10' 6" x H-15' 4" – $7,000.00 • Turbo, L- 22' 9" x W-10' 6" x H-15' 4", Turbo – $7,000.00 • Turbo, L-28' x W-13' X H-13' 10" – $9,000.00

$5,000.00 ea.

• Hamer #3 - model #FP7T – $5,000.00 ea.

• W ire - $25.00 each • Hamer 125 #1 w/stand model #125 – $750.00

• Hamer 125 #2 w/stand model #125 – $500.00

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MISCELLANEOUS • Vilter 250 HP Compressor, 23,500 hours – $25,000.00 • Vilter 350 Ton Capacity Condenser – $15,000.00 • Block Press Turbo (year 1980) – BP 360 w/ conveyor and hamerlock closer – $7,500.00 • Stainless Steel Straping Machine • Screw Conveyors; 8" 12" 16"

• Bagger #1 S.S. - model #VL510 – $4,000.00

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Price offers will be considered Call for complete information.

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ICE FOR SALE

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- Matthiesen Live bottom Bin, 8' x 20'. Only used three months.

Plastic liners for clear block makers $1.14/ea Reusable drop pans $5.25/ea Over 300 items in stock for Ice Carvers.

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- Kamco Bin 16 ton steel – Hamer 310, 1994.

- JMC Baler, 1990-1987 Turbo Block Press 360.

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SNO CAP SALES, INC. St. Louis, MO | 636-225-6011 Carving Blocks For Sale

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We are centrally located and ship nationwide.

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• Freezer slide in for pickup truck • Hytrol Conveyor System • 12 ft. Model A Conveyor • Galvanized 9 inch Screw Conveyor

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USED EQUIPMENT FOR SALE

Handling • Matthiesen Crusher 500 Galvanized (never used) • 12 ft. Stainless Auger & Shroud Cover • 9 x 20 Incline Screw Conveyor Galvanized w/shroud cover • Shaker • 16“ Z elevators (never used – designed to fill top load bagger)

• 2 – AIS Remanufactured Hamer 525FFS Complete with 125 Closing Head • 1 – AIS Remanufactured Hamer 310FFS Complete with 125 Closing Head • 1 – AIS Remanufactured Matthiesen Automatic Blockpress Model 10-300 • 1 – AIS Remanufactured Hamer Ring Bag Closer with Stand • 1 – Used 1994 JMC Automatic Baler Model 800TG • 1 – Vilter 8 Cylinder Compressor with 100 HP motor, non-working condition - $2000.00 • 1 – Vilter 8 Cylinder Compressor with 125 HP motor, non-working condition - $2500.00

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• J MC Baler Model 1660295 (includes Hamer Ring Bag Closer)

• Vogt P 118 R22 Mini Tube • 4 Star block makers • Kamco bin head w/chain and all associated hardware • 4 barrels for P118 with pumps and water tanks

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