Heating medium injectors and injection methods for heating foodstuffs

    公开(公告)号:US11147297B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-10-19

    申请号:US16895636

    申请日:2020-06-08

    发明人: Nicholas A. Roth

    摘要: A heating medium injector includes an injector structure defining a heating medium flow path and a product flow path. The heating medium flow path extends to a contact location, while the product flow path also extends to the contact location. The contact location comprises a location at which the heating medium flow path and product flow path merge within the injector. In a region along the product flow path, the product flow path is defined between a first flow surface and a second flow surface. The first flow surface comprises a surface of a boundary wall separating the heating medium flow path from the product flow path and the second flow surface comprises a surface of an opposing second boundary wall. The second flow surface is in substantial thermal communication with a second flow surface cooling structure.

    CENTRIFUGAL SEPARATORS AND SEPARATION METHODS PROVIDING INTERMEDIATE MATERIAL EJECTION CONTROL

    公开(公告)号:US20210260606A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-08-26

    申请号:US17316370

    申请日:2021-05-10

    发明人: Nicholas A. Roth

    IPC分类号: B04B11/04 B04B1/14 B04B1/18

    摘要: A separator includes a drum ejection passage control element and an intermediate ejection control element both mounted on a drum assembly. The drum ejection passage control element is moveable between a first position and a second position. In the second position a drum ejection passage is open for ejection of material from a maximum diameter of a separator volume, while in the first position the drum ejection passage control element blocks the drum ejection passage to prevent the ejection of material from the maximum diameter of the separator volume. An intermediate ejection path is formed in the separator, each extending from an intermediate ejection path inlet at an intermediate region of the separator volume to an intermediate ejection path outlet. The intermediate ejection control element is moveable to alternately open or close the intermediate ejection path for fluid communication to the separator volume.

    SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RECEIVING THE OUTPUT OF A DIRECT STEAM INJECTOR

    公开(公告)号:US20200268004A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-08-27

    申请号:US16792949

    申请日:2020-02-18

    发明人: Nicholas A. Roth

    摘要: A system includes a vacuum chamber, a vacuum source, and a mixture flow path adapted to be connected to receive the output of a direct steam injector. The vacuum source is operatively connected to a vacuum port of the vacuum chamber, while a product outlet port from the vacuum chamber is adapted to be connected to an arrangement for removing treated product from the vacuum chamber. The mixture flow path includes a flow path segment outside of the vacuum chamber volume and a flow path segment within the vacuum chamber volume. At least some of a surface defining the flow path segment within the vacuum chamber is in substantial thermal communication with one or more cooling structures.

    Centrifugal separators and separation methods employing multiple pistons and facilitating intermediate material ejection

    公开(公告)号:US10654050B1

    公开(公告)日:2020-05-19

    申请号:US16418815

    申请日:2019-05-21

    发明人: Nicholas A. Roth

    IPC分类号: B04B11/04 B04B1/14 B04B1/18

    摘要: A separator includes a first piston and a second piston both mounted within a drum assembly volume. The first piston is moveable between a first piston open position and a first piston closed position. In the first piston open position drum ejection passages of the drum assembly are open to the drum assembly volume, while in the first piston closed position the first piston blocks the drum ejection passages so that they are closed to the drum assembly volume. A number of intermediate ejection paths are formed in the separator, each extending from an intermediate ejection path inlet at an intermediate region of the drum assembly volume to an intermediate ejection path outlet. The second piston is moveable to alternately open or close the intermediate ejection paths to the drum assembly volume.