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The rink consists of a 110,000-square-foot (10,000 m 2) concrete surface (a 400-meter track surrounding an infield ice arena) with 84 miles (135 km) of embedded cooling tubes and an 800-ton refrigeration system.
Initially, the ice surface of the rink measured a small 120’ by 60’ until a larger rink was built in its place in 1955. [2] In the 1940s, Sun Valley installed a refrigeration system that made it possible to keep the rink open all year, and the resort added an indoor rink in 1975. [3]
Such a system usually runs in ice-making mode for 16 to 18 hours a day and in ice-melting mode for six hours a day. Capital expenditures are minimized because the chillers can be just 40 - 50% of the size needed for a conventional design. Ice storage sufficient to store half a day's rejected heat is usually adequate.
An ice resurfacer is a vehicle or hand-pushed device for cleaning and smoothing the surface of a sheet of ice, usually in an ice rink. The first ice resurfacer was developed by American inventor and engineer Frank Zamboni in 1949 in Paramount, California. [1] As such, an ice resurfacer is often referred to as a "Zamboni" as a genericized trademark.
The first skating rink in Frankfurt opened during a patent exhibition in 1882 in the Palmengarten. It covered 520 m 2 and operated for two months; the refrigeration system was designed by Linde, [2] and it was probably the first skating rink where Ammonia was used as a refrigerant. Ten years later, a larger rink was permanently installed on the ...
Children playing ice hockey on a backyard rink in Canada. Many ice rinks consist of, or are found on, open bodies of water such as lakes, ponds, canals, and sometimes rivers; these can be used only in the winter in climates where the surface freezes thickly enough to support human weight. Rinks can also be made in cold climates by enclosing a ...
The ice was laid down by Bob May of Ice Systems of America, under the directions of Michael Rzechula and Robert Krolak from ITI (now Ice Rink Supply). According to May, the outside ice rink in Las Vegas was "a big challenge", using three times the refrigeration equipment as one would for a regular rink. [4]
The New England Sports Center is a two-story, eight-rink ice-skating facility located in Marlborough, Massachusetts.Covering 22.3 acres (90,000 m 2) of suburban land, the 220,000-square-foot (20,000 m 2) building [1] has over 65 locker rooms, a hockey pro shop, ice skate sharpening, ice skate rentals, function rooms, a full-service restaurant, and a snack bar.