Nick: You should be able to find a good refrigeration company that will calculate the refrigeration load and the size of the compressor you should get based on how many tons of apples. They should also be able to help you determine heat loss from walls and the floor and come up with the correct insulation material to use if you are building the unit. If the unit come preassembled they the company that sells the unit should provide the information on heat loss. Another factors that goes into the calculation is heat of respiration of the apples based on their temperature when they first get into the storage and when they reach the appropriate storage temperature of either 30 F or 36 F. Let me know if you can't find someone to help you.... Mosbah Kusahd, University of Illinois
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Nick Lucking Sent: Sunday, October 26, 2014 10:21 PM To: apple-crop discussion list Subject: [apple-crop] Sizing cold storage Does anyone have any good guides on how large a cold storage facility should be on your orchard? For example if one was to grow 15,000 bu. how much should you have capacity for storing, 50%, 75%? I can't really find much info on this. Cheers, Nick Lucking Cannon Valley Orchard Cannon Falls, MN _______________________________________________ apple-crop mailing list [email protected] http://virtualorchard.net/mailman/listinfo/apple-crop _______________________________________________ apple-crop mailing list [email protected] http://virtualorchard.net/mailman/listinfo/apple-crop
