Blend · Homogenize · Sterilize / Juice & tea
Prepares juice and tea drinks for filling: sugar dissolving and blending, optional vacuum deaeration, homogenization and tubular sterilization. A steam boiler and automatic CIP support the line.
Process route
Steam from the boiler heats the jacketed equipment; the CIP system cleans every part that touches the product.
Factory footage
Factory footage of blending and process tanks with their pipework.
Equipment
7 units, from syrup preparation to utilities and cleaning, in process order.
01Syrup preparation
Dissolves white sugar completely in purified water under heating, stirring and high shear. The result is a syrup of stable concentration to the Brix standard, with no undissolved sugar and no lumps, ready for the blending tanks.
02Syrup preparation
Receive the sugar syrup from the dissolving tank and add all remaining ingredients, producing a final product with consistent flavour and Brix. The blended product is sent on to sterilization and filling.
03Product treatment
The product is sprayed into a thin film inside a vacuum vessel. Dissolved oxygen and free bubbles are released from the liquid and drawn off by the vacuum pump, and the deaerated product is pumped onward. Cleaned by the CIP system.
04Product treatment
A plunger pump pressurizes the product, usually to 15–25 MPa (30 MPa or more for plant-protein milk), and forces it at high speed through the narrow gap of the homogenizing valve. Shear, impact and cavitation break fat globules and pulp particles down to micrometre size and disperse them evenly through the liquid. Two-stage homogenization is most common: the first stage breaks particles down, the second keeps them from clumping again. Cleaned by the CIP system.
05Product treatment
The product flows continuously through stainless-steel tubes and is heated indirectly by hot water or steam, passing through preheating, holding and sterilization, heat recovery and cooling. Temperature control is fully automatic, and the unit is cleaned by the CIP system.
06Utilities
The heat source for the entire line. It produces saturated steam at stable pressure and dryness to heat all jacketed equipment and the CIP system.
07Cleaning
Cleans in place, with no need to dismantle tanks, pipelines or filling valves. At the press of a button, the PLC runs the complete online cleaning and disinfection programme for all equipment that comes into contact with beverage ingredients.
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