Design and development of a cooling system for beverages industry

Abstract

Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) have played an important role in the development of Malaysian economy. Besides, it also gives opportunities to medium class to get involve in entrepreneurs sectors and rewards better income. In Malaysia, SME are concentrated mainly in the food and beverages sector regarding the increasing in consumer demand on instant food and beverages product. This thesis is written to design and develop a cordial cooling system for Syarikat Frutania Sdn. Bhd. The systems that will design is a modern processing system and meet the industry requirement in conformity with modern hygienic standards. However, the design proposed will concentrate on heat exchanger which is capable to cool 600 liter of cordial from the temperature 90ºC to 30 ºC effectively and able to reduce the processing time in order to improve productivity. The design principle will be based on the First Law of Thermodynamics, Convection Heat Transfer, and Conduction Heat Transfer. The heat exchanger was analyzed by using the Log Mean Temperature Difference (LMTD) and the Effectiveness-NTU method to determine the appropriate size and the efficiency. Besides, the design also included the consideration of industry limitation which is space constraint. Static analysis also applied to ensure the design of heat exchanger proposed is strong enough for fabrication purpose.