Ice Plus™ Production Optimizer

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This patented technology reclaims the normally wasted cold water constantly draining from ice machines and uses it to pre-cool the hot gas refrigerant of the ice machine. The Ice Plus™ technology allows ice producing equipment (which are expensive to operate because they run 24/7) to achieve a) up to 40% less electrical power usage, b) up to 100% increased ice capacity (depending on application) where it is needed, or a combination of both. In addition, it reduces heat generated and rejected to the air around the ice machine by approximately 80%, thereby reducing AC loads and increasing comfort in rooms and buildings where ice making equipment exists. 

The Ice Plus is available as a retrofit product for all sizes of ice producing equipment. When installed, payback periods range from 6 months to 3 years, depending on the application. The Ice Plus technology will also soon be available in stand alone machines offered in 2 different sizes by Olive Tree Energy for easy installations and great savings in restaurants, hotels, and all other applications where ice is needed. This unit will outperform all others and be the "greenest" ice machine in the world.  

This product has outstanding potential to be used in two ways: 1) by major manufacturers of new ice machines who sell to end users in any industries that produce, need and/or use large amounts of ice, and 2) as a retrofit product that can be installed on existing ice machines.  This technology reclaims the normally wasted ice machine harvest water (and cold melt water) and puts the heat absorption capability of this cold water back into the refrigeration cycle of the ice machine system (into sub-cooling and/or de-superheating). While doing so, it lessens the amount of heat generated by the ice machine, which also reduces AC loads of buildings in which ice making equipment exists.

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