Heat exchanger with integrated testing system

    公开(公告)号:US11885572B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-01-30

    申请号:US16960436

    申请日:2019-01-08

    发明人: Paul Sheehan

    摘要: A heat exchanger apparatus has a heating stage with a product side and a hot water side and a cooling stage with a product side and a coolant side, and also regeneration stages with treated and un-treated product sides. There are valves including a cooling stage outlet valve, and pressure sensors, and pumps for pumping process liquid through the product sides. A PLC controller is programmed to operate the pumps with outlet valves closed to pressurize the product sides of the stages at a pressure dynamically maintained by control of the pumps in response to sensed pressure. The valves are controlled to firstly vent the heating and cooling sides of the heating and cooling stages with the product sides pressurized, and then in a second phase to vent the downstream (treated) product sides of regeneration stages. Also, an in-line holding time test is performed by monitoring time for step rises in temperature to reach a temperature sensor and the outlet end of a holding tube.

    Method for controlling microbiological contamination in a heat exchanger while processing a food product

    公开(公告)号:US10010090B2

    公开(公告)日:2018-07-03

    申请号:US14394601

    申请日:2013-05-23

    申请人: Normand Lauzon

    发明人: Normand Lauzon

    摘要: A method for controlling microbiological contamination in a heat exchanger while using the heat exchanger to process a food product. The method includes: while processing the food product in the heat exchanger, adding a microbiological control agent to the food product at a first location; and neutralizing at least partially the microbiological control agent by adding a neutralizing agent to the food product at a second location, the second location being downstream from the first location, at least part of the heat exchanger being between the first and second locations, the neutralizing agent being operative for reducing a chemical reactivity of the microbiological control agent in the food product. The microbiological control agent controls the microbiological contamination in the heat exchanger while the food product is processed. In some embodiments, the food product is a milk product.

    PROCESSES FOR PRODUCING TREATED MILK PRODUCTS
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    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20170258103A1

    公开(公告)日:2017-09-14

    申请号:US15310335

    申请日:2015-05-13

    摘要: Provided is a process for producing a concentrated or a concentrated and sterilized milk composition, including subjecting the composition to multi-stage recirculating reverse osmosis, where during recirculating reverse osmosis (RRO), for at least part of the RRO process, a step in the RRO process, or during the entire RRO process, the RRO process is carried out at a temperature of from greater than 45° F. to 60° F., where water is removed, to produce a concentrated milk composition. The concentrated milk composition can optionally be sterilized by first heating the concentrated composition to a first elevated temperature of from 175° F. to 185° F. (and in some cases to 210° F.) within a time period of 45 seconds to produce a first heated composition.

    METHOD FOR CONTROLLING MICROBIOLOGICAL CONTAMINATION IN A HEAT EXCHANGER WHILE PROCESSING A FOOD PRODUCT.
    128.
    发明申请
    METHOD FOR CONTROLLING MICROBIOLOGICAL CONTAMINATION IN A HEAT EXCHANGER WHILE PROCESSING A FOOD PRODUCT. 审中-公开
    用于在加工食品中的热交换器中控制微生物污染的方法。

    公开(公告)号:US20160192669A1

    公开(公告)日:2016-07-07

    申请号:US14394601

    申请日:2013-05-23

    申请人: Normand Lauzon

    发明人: Normand Lauzon

    IPC分类号: A23C3/08 A23C3/033

    摘要: A method for controlling microbiological contamination in a heat exchanger while using the heat exchanger to process a food product. The method includes: while processing the food product in the heat exchanger, adding a microbiological control agent to the food product at a first location; and neutralizing at least partially the microbiological control agent by adding a neutralizing agent to the food product at a second location, the second location being downstream from the first location, at least part of the heat exchanger being between the first and second locations, the neutralizing agent being operative for reducing a chemical reactivity of the microbiological control agent in the food product. The microbiological control agent controls the microbiological contamination in the heat exchanger while the food product is processed. In some embodiments, the food product is a milk product.

    摘要翻译: 一种在使用热交换器处理食品时控制热交换器中微生物污染的方法。 该方法包括:在热交换器中处理食品的同时,在第一位置向食品添加微生物控制剂; 并且通过在第二位置向所述食品添加中和剂至少部分地中和所述微生物控制剂,所述第二位置在所述第一位置的下游,所述热交换器的至少一部分在所述第一和第二位置之间,所述中和 该试剂可用于降低微生物控制剂在食品中的化学反应性。 当处理食品时,微生物控制剂控制热交换器中的微生物污染。 在一些实施方案中,食品是乳制品。

    Method and Device for Sterilization and Homogenization of Liquid Products

    公开(公告)号:US20150237909A1

    公开(公告)日:2015-08-27

    申请号:US14432017

    申请日:2013-09-25

    IPC分类号: A23L3/015 A23C3/04

    摘要: The method of the invention is characterized in that in the first phase the device installation is filled with processed liquid product, yielding a low pressure zone and then the processed liquid product is introduced under high pressure into the cavitation process, where moving at a rate of not less than 3 m/s and under pressure of not less than 20 bar is introduced to the cavitation and rotation location of the separated streams of the processed liquid product, which rotating in the further part, in the longitudinal axis of the cavitator, move in the opposite directions, resulting in differential pressure leading to cavitation process with effects characteristic for sterilization and homogenization with heterogeneous parameters, wherein in the next phase a separation takes place into a liquid product, which has a particle size larger than 600 nm and a liquid product which has a particle size smaller than 600 nm, wherein the liquid product of larger particle size is directed to cooling and complementary cavitation reprocessing, and the liquid product of smaller particle size is subjected to particle size analysis control, by which the liquid product, which meets the preset parameters, is directed to the finished product acceptance, and the liquid product which does not meet the acceptance criteria is sent to the next reprocessing. The device of the invention is characterized in that it comprises a low pressure pump (2), which is used to fill the device installation with processed liquid product, wherein in a subsequent operation the particle size analyzer (7) switches the high pressure pump (1) on, introducing at a pressure not less than 20 bar the processed liquid product into the cavitator (3), where the cavitation process takes place, the resulting liquid product having a heterogeneous structure is introduced into the separator centrifuge (4), in which takes place, depending on parameters, the separation of the flow into the heat exchanger (5) and the cavitation reprocessing, and the flow through the valve (6) to the particle size analyzer (7), which directs the liquid product to the reception point.