TEMPERATURE CONTROL IN REFRIGERATED TRANSPORT WITH A SNOW BAG

Snow shooting is a recently patented process that is used in refrigerated transport. Pressurised liquid carbon dioxide is injected via a "snow" lance into a permeable snow bag mounted near the ceiling of the insulated container. The decrease in pressure causes the liquid carbon dioxide to convert to "snow" and vapour inside the snow bag. It is the purpose of the paper to develop a model that can be used to predict the heat transfer and more specifically the heat transfer coefficient of a snow bag. This model could then be used to predict the amount of snow and/or size of the snow bag for a given size of body and heat load. This is done with experimental and theoretical energy balances over the container walls and the snow bag.