. Packing house and cold storage construction; a general reference work on the planning, construction and equipment of modern American meat packing plants, with special reference to the requirements of the United States government, and a complete treatise on the design of cold storage plants, including refrigeration, insulation and cost data .. . 144 RECENT COLD STORAGE CONSTRUCTION The detail of the columns and the manner m whichthey were placed is illustrated by Figure 83. The refrigerating machinery is located on the top floorof the south section. Three units of 150 tons refrigeratingcapaci
. Packing house and cold storage construction; a general reference work on the planning, construction and equipment of modern American meat packing plants, with special reference to the requirements of the United States government, and a complete treatise on the design of cold storage plants, including refrigeration, insulation and cost data .. . 144 RECENT COLD STORAGE CONSTRUCTION The detail of the columns and the manner m whichthey were placed is illustrated by Figure 83. The refrigerating machinery is located on the top floorof the south section. Three units of 150 tons refrigeratingcapacity were provided. The machines were of the absorp-tion type and operated by exhaust steam which was pur-chased from an adjoining manufacturing plant, which alsofurnished the current for the electric hght and power. MLT^L <LK~y[ mON COLUMN6GANULMLD ODllK OPLN. ACTION PIG. S3—TOP STORY COLUMN SHOWING INSULATION. The storage rooms are refrigerated by the circulationof brine which is cooled in three circular, horizontal-typebrine coolers, five feet in diameter and eighteen feet brine is used at a temperature of —20° Fahr. in onecooler, zero brine in the second and +15° Fahr. in thethird. The brine is handled by three pumps with 8-inch RECENT COLD STORAGE CONSTRUCTION 145 suction and 8-inch discharge pipes, the pipe decreasing indiameter as it reaches the lower floors, to a minimum ofthree inches in the cellar. The return line increases in thesame proportion until it discharges into two open balanc-ing tanks, six feet in diameter and five feet deep, whichare placed above the pumps. The piping in the rooms is of two inch spellerized steelexcept in the egg rooms where galvanized pipe is used. All
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