Direct Uht processing system for dairy and plant-based beverages
Achieve ultra-high temperature treatment with minimal impact on taste and nutritional value, ensuring your heat-sensitive products retain their premium quality through efficient direct steam injection and advanced flash cooling technology.
Delivers Continuous UHT Treatment and Aseptic Processing
The Tetra Therm® Aseptic VTIS from Tetra Pak Netherlands is an aseptic processing unit that excels in continuous UHT treatment through direct steam injection, offering an optimal solution for heat-sensitive, low-acid liquid food products. This state-of-the-art system rapidly heats products such as UHT milk, enriched milk, cream, and a variety of plant-based alternatives, ensuring minimal impact on taste, color, and nutritional value. With a capacity range from 2,000 to 30,000 liters per hour and customizable operating modes including direct, indirect, and combined heating, it seamlessly integrates into diverse production lines.
Equipped with steam injection and flash-cooling systems, the unit provides exceptional cleanability and minimal product losses, enhancing operational efficiency. Its advanced automation, featuring a PLC-controlled interface and automatic dampers, ensures consistent performance and reduced downtime. Designed with energy-efficient heat exchanger panels and a floating protection system, the equipment offers up to 11% energy savings while supporting long-term durability and safety. Meeting the stringent aseptic processing standards, it suits a broad spectrum of applications, from dairy and plant-based beverages to soups and sauces, with potential to customize components for specific production needs.
Benefits
- Minimizes flavor and nutrient loss with rapid, gentle steam injection and flash cooling.
- Reduces cleaning downtime and costs due to low fouling and efficient CIP system.
- Achieves up to 11% energy savings through insulated heat exchanger panels.
- Supports flexible production with combined heating modes for diverse product ranges.
- Enhances product safety and quality with reliable aseptic processing standards.
- Applications
- Cream,Dairy desserts,Esl products,Sauces,Smooth soups,Formulated dairy products,Soy milk,Plant-based products,Starch-based products,Ice-cream mix,Non-dairy cream,Dairy
- End products
- Cream of tomato soup,Single whipping cream,Uht milk,Coconut cream,Enriched uht milk,Panna cotta,Fruit-flavored soy milk,Oat milk,Almond milk,Corn starch pudding,Esl whole milk,Chocolate ice-cream mix,Shelf-stable custard,Bechamel sauce
- Steps before
- Purification,Mixing,Homogenization,Heating
- Steps after
- Cooling,Aseptic Packaging,Filling,Sealing,Labeling
- Input ingredients
- milk,enriched milk,cream,soy milk,formulated dairy products,ice-cream mix,dairy desserts,low-acid products,smooth products,soups,sauces,non-dairy cream,starch based products,products with small particles
- Output ingredients
- aseptic products,extended shelf life (ESL) products,premium quality products,heat-sensitive low-acid aseptic products
- Market info
- Tetra Pak is renowned for providing innovative packaging solutions, specializing in carton packaging for the food and beverage industry. It is esteemed for high-quality, sustainable, and efficient processing and packaging equipment on a global scale.
- Capacity
- 2,000 l/h to 30,000 l/h
- Heat load
- Low overall
- Heating method
- Direct steam injection
- Heating temperature
- 80° to UHT temperature
- Heating time
- 0.1 seconds
- Fouling rate
- Very low
- Changeover time
- Water-to-product interface is sharp
- Product losses
- Less than 150 litres per 15,000 litres
- Energy savings
- Up to 11% with insulation
- Pressure system
- Higher pressure on the inner tubes
- Automation
- Fully automated CIP
- Operating cost
- 4% - 8% higher for steam infusion
- Working mechanism
- Direct UHT treatment with steam injection
- Automation level
- Fully automated with CIP
- Batch vs. continuous operation
- Continuous
- CIP/SIP
- Fully automated CIP included
- Cleaning method
- CIP
- Energy efficiency
- Up to 6% energy savings with protective panels
- Steam infusion system
- Minimizes impact on product taste,color,and consistency
- Dual heating method
- VTIS (direct) and Flex/Plus (indirect)
- Flash-cooling
- In vacuum vessel for minimal product losses
- Double balance tank system
- Reduces product losses
- Automatic damper
- For longer running times
- Density/particle size
- 0.5–2.5 g/cm³ / 50–1000 µm
- Feed method
- Continuous
- Control panel type
- Touchscreen HMI
- Integration possibilities
- Compatible with existing systems
- Compact footprint
- Yes
- Combined heating solution
- Direct and Indirect
- Automatic damper
- For pressure variation control
- Double balance tank system
- For low product losses
- Steam injection
- Direct UHT processing
- Steam infusion
- Gentle processing
- Heat exchanger protective panels
- Energy savings potential
- Heat exchanger floating protection system
- Extended equipment lifetime