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Exhibit 31

                    CERTIFICATIONS OF CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
                      AND CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER PURSUANT
                    TO SECTION 302 OF THE SARBANES-OXLEY ACT

                                 CERTIFICATIONS

I, William M. Alverson, President, Chief Executive Officer and Chief
Financial Officer of Advanced Refrigeration Technologies, Inc.(the "Company" or
the "registrant") certify that:

1. I have reviewed this annual report on Form 10-KSB of the Company;

2. Based on my knowledge, this annual report does not contain any untrue
statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make
the statements made, in light of the circumstances under which such statements
were made, not misleading with respect to the period covered by this quarterly
report;

3. Based on my knowledge, the financial statements, and other financial
information included in this annual report, fairly present in all material
respects the financial condition, results of operations and cash flows of the
Registrant as of, and for, the periods presented in this annual report;

4. The registrant's other certifying officers and I are responsible for
establishing and maintaining disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in
Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)) and internal control over financial
reporting (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f)) for the
Company and have:

                  (a) Designed such disclosure controls and procedures, or
         caused such disclosure controls and procedures to be designed under my
         supervision, to ensure that material information relating to the
         registrant, is made known to us by others within Company, particularly
         during the period in which this report is being prepared;

                  (b) Designed such internal control over financial reporting,
         or caused such internal control over financial reporting to be designed
         under our supervision, to provide reasonable assurance regarding the
         reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial
         statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted
         accounting principles;

                  (c) Evaluated the effectiveness of the registrant's disclosure
         controls and procedures and presented in this report our conclusions
         about the effectiveness of the disclosure controls and procedures, as
         of the end of the period covered by this report based on such
         evaluation; and

                  (d) Disclosed in this report any change in the registrant's
         internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the
         Company's fourth fiscal quarter that has materially affected, or is
         reasonably likely to materially affect, the Company's internal control
         over financial reporting; and

5. The Registrant's other certifying officers and I have disclosed, based on our
most recent evaluation, to the registrant's auditors and the audit committee of
registrant's board of directors (or persons performing the equivalent function):

     a. all significant deficiencies in the design or operation of internal
     controls which could adversely affect the registrant's ability to record,
     process, summarize and report financial data and have identified for the
     registrant's auditors any material weaknesses in internal controls; and

     b. any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other
     employees who have a significant role in the registrant's internal
     controls; and

6. The Registrant's other certifying officers and I have indicated in this
annual report whether or not there were significant changes in internal controls
or in other factors that could significantly affect internal controls subsequent
to the date of our most recent evaluation, including any corrective actions with
regard to significant deficiencies and material weaknesses.

Date: April 14, 2004               /s/ William Alverson
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                                   William Alverson, President, Chief
                                   Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer