Royal Greenland has just concluded a project resulting in faster freezing of snow crab.
The project was focused around the freezing process used to freeze crabs at Royal Greenland's crab processing facilities in Paamiut, Sisimiut and Qeqertarsuaq, West Greenland on a daily basis. The goal was to develop a method to freeze the crabs faster by utilising a freezing tub with improved conditions for transmission of heat in the form of jets and slush ice.
The project showed that it is possible to shorten the time the snow crab spends in the freezing tub by 20-30 per cent by improving the water flow with jets and thereby improving the conditions for transmission of heat during the freezing process. The gain is improved product quality.
The project has provided specific knowledge to Royal Greenland on how the freezing process can be improved at the company’s three crab processing facilities, in addition to giving insight into the newest thermal measuring methods, which the Danish Institute of Technology employs in its daily work. Furthermore, Royal Greenland says that the project collaboration will ensure that the company is at the forefront with the newest and most efficient processing technologies for cooked and frozen crab products.
The project "Development of New Freezing and Cooling Methods for Food Items Based on Immersion Freezing with Slush Ice as Cooling Subject" was carried out as a collaboration between Torben Kamp employed in the quality department at Royal Greenland Sisimiut, Niels Boeknaes, Processing Developer at Royal Greenland Denmark and the Danish Institute of Technology in Aarhus.
