When your hot gas defrost just isn’t get’n her done!

Just when you think you have seen it all, some business steps up and surprises me once again!  This time we visit a refrigeration process at a cold storage facility that specialized in fruit juice concentrates.  This team did not like to “defrost” their evaporators the traditional way using hot gas; so much that they preferred to let their evaporators run until the ice got so thick they actually stopped remove heat from the space.  They would then STILL NOT perform a hot gas defrost and instead provided the newest employees’ hammers and chisels to remove the ice from the evaporators!  You just can’t make this stuff up and at approximately 10:00 a.m. on July 8, 2008, what most can imagine happening … happened…

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