Primenenie ABKhM THERMAX v pishchevoy promyshlennosti

Until recently the inability of the absorption refrigerating machines (ABRM) to produce temperatures lower +5 оC was a serious problem that put obstacles in the way of using them in food industry. In 2001 the engineers of the Thermax company (India) removed this obstacle, and since the use of ARM in the field of food production has been actively enlarged. At present the production absorption machines may cool down the liquid to -5 оC temperature that is reached owing to the addition of the lithium bromide solution in water boiling in the ABRM evaporator. The liquid produced doesn’t freeze and keeps its capability to boil at temperature lowering.A special module the core of which is a controller controls the lithium bromide solution concentration. This allows maintaining necessary parameters of the solution at high accuracy including crystallization. The paper examines the world practice examples of successful using low-temperature lithium bromide refrigerating machines in food enterprises.