This particular ice bank was commissioned to replace a Ammonia Ice bank that had gone beyond its service life and was starting to cause stress being a dangerous gas in a dense suburban area and costing a lot to keep running.  The original plant was built when there were far fewer people in the area of Douglasdale Fourways in Johannesburhg. 

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The ice bank is designed to make 20 tons of ice per tank with 2 x tanks totalling 40 tons of ice storage. 

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The tanks were built to replace existing tanks so they were manufactured  the exact same size with stainless steel inner tanks skins and SS coils. 

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Cooling comes from two stand alone systems with cooling towers producing a rough value of 250 kW of cooling to produce ice per tank. 

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The tanks have air agitation and proper distribution manifolds to ensure the water is as cold as possible and ice mealt is effective and complete between cycles. 

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The Final tank was installed early in 2023 .