In rural areas of Ethiopia the grid electricity supply coverage is very low, which is about 2%. Asrnresult of this dairy product preservation before supply to local market is difficult especially forrnnight time collected milk. However, utilization of direct coupled PV powered solar refrigeratorrnincorporated with Ice thermal storage able to preserve the products until market. The use of Icernthermal storage can avoid the use of solar batteries. The study includes the design, manufacturernthe prototype and experimental testing and computational modeling of PV powered solarrnrefrigerator. rnAs a case study Adama city Ethiopia is selected for the experimental test, the solar radiation ofrnthe site is analyzed. The minimum daily average solar radiation is determined at a month ofrnAugust which is rn rn . To preserve 5L milk, MT3.5DC compressor and 140W rnPV panel are selected. The operating point of compressor is obtained and the minimum solarrnradiation required for the solar refrigerator is rn rn rnComputational simulations using ANSYS-Fluent is conducted to determine the amount of ice rnproduced as a thermal storage for night time preservation and the average temperature of watericernrnduring solidification process. The system produced nearly 1kg solid ice with a meanrntemperature of . During night time which is the discharging process of the ice the milkrngot chilled from and maintained this temperature for more than 12hours. rnThen, the model is manufactured and tested for its performance. During the experimental testrnsolar radiation was simulated virtually with DC power supply due to frequent intermittent naturernof the radiation. From the experiment, it was observed that the average water-ice temperaturernwas -12.5rnornC. In the discharging process the milk temperature was reduced from 310K to 274K rnwithin 12 hours. Also, the milk temperature is reached to a range of to with in 4hoursrnduration and satisfies the FAO standard. CFD simulation was validated by experimental test,rnwith 6% maximum deviation.