hydrocooler

English

Etymology

hydro- +‎ cooler

Noun

hydrocooler (plural hydrocoolers)

1. Any of various devices for cooling produce by means of chilled water.
   • 2008, James F. Thompson, F. Gordon Mitchell, Tom R. Rumsay, Commercial Cooling of Fruits, Vegetables, and Flowers, →ISBN, page 22:

     Most hydrocoolers use mechanical refrigeration. Figure 26 shows the approximate amount of refrigeration needed for an uninsulated hydrocooler, installed outside.

   • 2012, Rodolfo H. Mascheroni, Operations in Food Refrigeration, →ISBN, page 268:

     Smaller hydrocooling operations may use crushed ice rather than mechanical refrigeration to produce chilled water. Typically, large blocks of ice are transported from an ice plant to the hydrocooler and then crushed and added to the water reservoir of the hydrocooler.

   • 2015, Chandra Gopala Rao, Engineering for Storage of Fruits and Vegetables, →ISBN, page 98:

     A continuous-flow immersion hydrocooler cools the packaged product by flooding as it is conveyed through a cooling tunnel.