How It Works: Bucceri vs. Conventional Fan Guns ❄️

Conventional fan guns, use a nucleating nozzle to create “snow seeds”. This process involves forcing a small, high-pressure flow of water through a nozzle with a compressed air supply. The air and water mix and expand, rapidly cooling a portion of the water into tiny ice crystals, or “seeds”. The rest of the water is atomized by other nozzles, and a powerful fan blows all the droplets into a cold, rotating airstream to freeze around the seeds. This process is limited by cold, dry weather, as conventional systems can lose 7% to 35% of their water to evaporation.

The patenetd Bucceri All-Weather fan gun operates differently by creating a controlled, all-weather snowmaking process. It replaces the nucleating nozzle and air compressor with an integrated, on-board ice-making machine. Different sized  Bucceri All weather fan guns can be connected to different sized ice making machines. Bucceri can produce 3 different types of fan guns that come with either a 3kw, 22kw or 55kw fan.

Bucceri All-Weather Key Features and Benefits

All-Weather Operation

By using a refrigeration unit to produce ice seeds, the Bucceri system can make snow at all temperatures and operate using the same principles of a convetional fan gun in teperatures below -2 degrees Celsius (29 degrees F) wet bulb and also produce snow from -2°C to to 40°C.  28F- 108F) . This eliminates the need for cold ambient air to create the initial ice seeds and means that these ice seeds can be used to make snow in all temperatures.

More Efficient Snowmaking

When temperatures are below -2 degrees Celsius (28 Degrees F)  the Bucceri system doesn’t relies on evaporation to super cool the atomised water and nucleation to make snow. When temperatures are between -2 degrees Celsius and +1 degrees Celsius (28F-34F) the Bucceri System relies on heat trasfer from the super cold ice nuclei to mix with atomised water to make snow and at all temperatures above this the Buccri System blows the ice nuclei produced directly to the ground to make man made snow. 

Higher Capacity and Production

The Bucceri system can be connected to various sized propritory ice machines ranging from 2ton with a 6kw motor to 100 ton , providing a massive amount of ice seeds. The -2 degrees Celsius (28F) Wet bulb ratio of ice nuclei to atomized water in a conventional fan gun that produces between 3 to 4 litres per minutes of ice seeds is approximately 1 to 11.43. as colder wet bulb temperatures are encountered the ratio increases and the factor can be as high as 150. By leveraging a larger ice machine for example a 70 ton Bucceri/IceG Ice making system with an output of 48.6 liters per minute of ice seeds, the Bucceri fan gun can theoretically handle over 555.6 liters of atomized water per minute, potentially producing significantly more snow than conventional systems.