Abstract: An evaporative condenser for use in a refrigeration or air-conditioning system includes one or more condensing coils arranged in a condensing coil zone. The coils condense therewithin a refrigerant of the system. The condenser also includes a mechanism for wetting the one or more condensing coils. The condenser further includes drift eliminators arranged to remove free water from an airstream A that has flowed past the one or more condensing coils and wetting mechanism. The condenser additionally includes a divergent zone that diverges from the condensing coil zone towards the drift eliminators such that, once the airstream has flowed past the one or more condensing coils, it flows into and through the divergent zone to the drift eliminators.

Abstract: Plate freezer apparatus has a plurality of vertically disposed refrigerated plates separated from each other by spacer frames to define a plurality of open topped compartments to receive product to be frozen. The assembly of plates and spacer frames are held together by spring tensioned rods which apply a compressive force to the assembly. Each plate has a number of wedge surfaces and a plate separating device engages the wedge surfaces of an adjacent pair of plates to thereby separate those plates to enable the spacer frame and frozen material therebetween to be withdrawn. The frozen material is removed from the spacer frame which is then re-inserted between the separated plates and the separating device removed before the compartment is refilled with product to be frozen.