A Controlled Atmosphere (Ca) Cold Store Facility

MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY

FOOD ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT

FD. E. 425 FOOD ENGINEERING DESIGN

ASSIGNMENT 5

25.11.2009

A Controlled Atmosphere (CA) Cold Store Facility

SUBMITTED TO: PROF. DR. SUAT UNGAN

SUBMITTED BY GROUP 5 SEC. 2: UFUK YAZAR

EVANA NAÇİ

Ö. CANDAN ONARMAN

ALEXANDRU LUCA

LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL

This report is written in the scope of “Fd.E 425- Food Engineering Design” course. In this project e appropriate design should be made and an offer should be given for a cold storage facility. It is desired to storage 450tons of apple for 4 month in a controlled atmosphere cold storage room.

The cost analysis’s also has been done and a feasibility report has been prepared. The results of the projected design are:

• Total Fixed Investment 553601,9 TL

• Variable cost 40492,85 TL

• Price of apple 1,10 TL/kg

SUBMITTED BY: UFUK YAZAR

EVANA NAÇİ

Ö. CANDAN ONARMAN

ALEXANDRU LUCA

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

SUMMARY...........................................................................................................................3

I.INTRODUCTION................................................................................................................3

II. PREVIOUS WORK............................................................................................................4

III.

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