DEVELOP NEW REFRIGERATION EQUIPMENT

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• Publication Date: July 11, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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Economic; Technological - Food machinery
Daily newspapers
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DEVELOP NEW REFRIGERATION EQUIPMENT
INSULATE RE GERATORS WITH PUMICE CEMENT -- Kommunist, No 84, 8 Apr 50
By decision of the Soviet Government and the TaK VKP(b), stocks of meat
and dairy products must be increased 11-2 times during the next 3 years. In
order to do this, refrigeration facilities must be expanded.
Refrigerator building, one of the newest branches of contemporary engi-
neering, has been developed furthest in the food and chemical industries.
the cost o of eheat insulationaise25 percent ofathencosttofg the tre-
Stll aalls, since further
frigerator.
Requirements for insulating materials in refrigerators are very specific.
Some materials which are adequate at higher temperatures are inappropriate
here because they are frost-resistant. product), and pressboard,uare,
i.e., not
cork, , foamy . ment, "torfolit" (a peat pro
completely satisfactory.
The Ministry of the Meat and Dairy Industry, Armenian SSR, has been using
pumice for insulating refrigerator walls. It is fire-and frost-resistant, has
no odor, is not filled with fungi, and is homogeneous in composition. Pumice on in t adaptediboth tohtheomainfstructure ofnthet
(pipe insulation).
The pumice cement used for insulation in building the Yerevan Refrigera-
tion Combine had a weight of 500 kilograms per cubic meters, and a strength
of 6.4 tons per square meter. It required 90 kilograms of Portland cement
and one cubic meter of pumice stone to make one cubic meter of pumice cement.
A This type of insulation is very economical. Under conditions existing at
Yerevan, pumice installation was 70 times cheaper than peat insulation, and 400
times cheaper than cork slabs (ekspenzit). Pumice is native to the Armenian
SSR. Working of the main deposits has been mechanized, and railroads and
are close by. All the conditions are favorable for developing production
of such a valuable insulation material.
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The Ministry of the Meat and Dairy Industry, Armenian SSR, has made some
practical achievements in developing insulation materials from pumice, but
has not explored all the possibilities. Specialists are still faced with un-
solved problems, the settling of which will be a great contribution to further
progress in the refrigeration industry. -- R. Balagyan, chief of the Depart-
ment of Capital Construction of the Ministry of the Meat and Dairy Industry,
Armenian SSR
DEVICES PROVIDE AUTOMATIC CONTROL FOR REFRIGERATING UNITS -- Leningradakaya
Pravda, No 87, 12 Apr 50
Experimental models of instruments for automatically controlling ammon-
ia refrigerating units were designed and produced at the automatics labora-
tory of the Leningrad branch of the Scientific-Research Institute for Chemi-
cal-Machine Building under the direction of A. D. Kuyuchkov, engineer and
chief of the laboratory.
The instruments were tested, with good results, in the refrigerating
unit of Store No 34 of the Kuybyshev Rayon Food Trade, 53 Nevskiy.
Constant temperature is maintained in the compartments of the unit. At
the slightest increase, the instruments automatically turn on the"'unit; when
the temperature drops to the necessary level, they turn it off.
A unit equipped with these devices insures great savings in electricity
and water; it requires only occasional inspection. The automatic control also
prevents the unit from breaking down. If pressure rises too high or if the
cooling brine freezes, the instruments immediately cut off the unit, and a
signal bell rings in the office of the director.
MINISTRY FAILS TO SUPPLY PRECISION EQUIPMENT -- Izvestiya, No 84, 8 Apr 50
The butter- and cheese-making, milk-canning, and refrigeration plants
are in urgent need of a special fixture, the lack of which forced several
plants to cease operating last,year.
The Main Administration for the Production of Industrial Fittings of the
Ministry of Machine and Instrument Building USSR, which should supply this
type of equipment to new installations appears undisturbed by its obligation.
Lengthy correspondence has passed between the Ministry of the Meat and
Dairy Industry and the Ministry of Machine and Instrument Building, but the
production of such equipment as moisture traps, miscellaneous cocks and valves,
liquid level indicators, and water meters has not been arranged. Because of
the small diameter of the required fixture (a few dozen millimeters), it can
be produced o*zl.y in instrument-building plants.
The instrument-building plants are putting out steam and water valves
of all sizes in large quantities. However, similar equipment is being suc-
cessfully produced by numerous cooperative trade artels in the RSFSR and
Ukraine. Who, then, will produce the special fixture which requires extra
precision of workmanship? The instrument-building plants must be compelled
to do this. -- G. Shakhbazov, engineer of Glavkomplektooborudovaniya (Main Ad-
ministration of Unit Assembly Equipment) of the Ministry of the Meat and Dairy
Industry USSR
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WORKERS CALL FOR SHOP IMPROVEMENTS -- Zarya Vostoka, No 72, 7 Apr 50
"The Batumi Machine-Building Plant imeni L. Beri?Ya has produced, above
the first-quarter plan, one 'gidrotemper,' a machine for humidifying rooms
in tea plants, four tea cutters, two tea-sorting machines, and one unit of
equipment for the perfume industry." With this announcement G. Tabakua,
secretary of the party organization, opened a meeting of 31 March, attended
by 16 men representing the different shops.
During the meeting,trinstrumenteisdrea quiredrfor iprovements.
other things, , pneumatic
this work is now done by hand. Round files and drills of certain
sizes are needed. Although these are produced in abundant quantity, they
are not available. One tool must be substituted for another, with the re-
sult that productivity is reduced sharply. The Sales Department of Glav-
pishchemash (Main Administration of Food-Processing Machinery) of the Minis-
try of the Food Industry USSR is completely indifferent to this fact. Pipes
should be bent by machine, not by hand. The same shears should not be used
to cut thick and thin sheets of metal. Transport within the plant should be
mechanized.
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