Title:
【発明の名称】流動材料を処理する装置および方法
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JPH11503327
Kind Code:
A
Abstract:
Sterilizing apparatus and a method including a stepped transition heat exchange bank is used to raise the temperature of an incoming fluent food product before introducing the fluent food product to a sterilizing chamber in which the fluent food product is discharged in the form of a free-falling film; sterilizing steam is injected into the sterilizing chamber, all of which is absorbed by the fluent food product; from the sterilizing chamber, the food product with absorbed steam is passed to a vacuum chamber where part of the water in the fluent food product flashes to steam again and is removed for subsequent processing through heat exchangers and recirculation back to a steam generator upstream of the sterilizing chamber. The food product from the vacuum chamber is passed to a stepped heat exchange bank before passing to storage or packaging facilities.
Inventors:
Nara, John, Yi
Zimmer, Artur, M
Zimmer, Artur, M
Application Number:
JP53102696A
Publication Date:
March 26, 1999
Filing Date:
April 02, 1996
Export Citation:
Assignee:
Dashi Corporation
International Classes:
A23C3/02; A23C3/037; A23L3/18; A23L3/22; A61L2/06; (IPC1-7): A23L3/18; A23C3/02; A61L2/06
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Akira Asamura (3 outside)