Freeze concentration system for liquid food concentrates
Achieve superior concentration of liquid food products while preserving flavor and efficiency with a compact freeze concentration system, designed to seamlessly integrate into your production line and optimize processing through precise solid-liquid separation.
Performs Freeze Concentration and Dewatering Efficiently
The IceCon® Compact series by GEA offers a cutting-edge solution for the freeze concentration of liquid food and beverage products. This compact, skid-mounted equipment excels in separating water from concentrates, ensuring minimal energy consumption and environmental impact. Suitable for applications in food, beverage, dairy, and chemical industries, it operates through a continuous and automatic process. The series includes models with dewatering capacities of up to 900 kg/h, ensuring high throughput for various processing needs. Its integrated skid design facilitates easy installation and transportation, while pre-cooling skids help reduce CO2 emissions by recovering energy. GEA’s robust design ensures reliability, with units pre-tested before shipment for seamless start-up.
Benefits
- Enhances production efficiency with continuous, automatic operation.
- Minimizes environmental impact by reusing discharge water or directing it to the drain.
- Offers energy savings with integrated pre-cooling to reduce CO2 footprint.
- Facilitates swift installation and commissioning with skid-mounted, pre-tested design.
- Fits space-constrained facilities with a compact footprint and modular configuration.
- Applications
- Beverages,Dairy products,Food ingredients,Liquid food concentrates,Fruit juices
- End products
- Steps before
- Pre-cooling,Liquid Processing,Feed Preparation
- Steps after
- Dewatering,Concentrate Packaging,Quality Control
- Input ingredients
- liquid food,feed properties
- Output ingredients
- high quality concentrates,water
- Market info
- GEA is known for its expertise in engineering innovative and sustainable equipment and solutions, focusing on sectors such as food, beverages, pharmaceuticals, and energy, with a reputation for quality, efficiency, and advanced technological applications in industrial processing.
- Dewatering range
- 100-900 kg/h
- Skid dimensions
- 5 x 4 x 5 m to 6 x 4.5 x 6 m
- Footprint,incl. maintenance area
- 7 x 6 x 8 m to 8 x 7 x 9 m
- Estimated operating weight
- 6,000 to 20,000 kg
- Filling volume
- 2-8 m³
- Installed power (excl. chiller)
- 14-44 kW
- Automation
- Automatic and continuous operation
- Working mechanism
- Freeze concentration
- Integrated steps
- Modular skid installation
- Energy recovery
- Pre-cooling skid
- Batch vs. continuous operation
- Continuous
- Automation level
- Automatic and continuous operation
- Commissioning
- FAT before shipment
- CO2 footprint
- Reduced with energy recovery
- Container size and shape
- Skid-mounted,container transport-friendly
- Machine footprint
- Compact 25
- Compact 40
- 8 x 7 x 9 m
- Compact 60
- 8 x 7 x 9 m
- Skid dimensions
- Compact 25
- Compact 40
- 6 x 4.5 x 5.5 m
- Compact 60
- 6 x 4.5 x 6 m
- Estimated operating weight
- Compact 25
- Compact 40
- 12,000 kg
- Compact 60
- 20,000 kg
- Filling volume
- Compact 25
- Compact 40
- 4.5 m³
- Compact 60
- 8 m³
- Discharge method
- Freeze concentration
- Control panel type
- PLC
- Compact footprint
- Yes
- Skid Size Options
- Container size model skids
- Energy Recovery Option
- Pre-cooling skid integration
- Freeze Concentration Plant Integration
- Standard skid mounted units