Freeze concentration system for liquid food products
Achieve precise concentration while preserving volatile components and flavors in liquid food products, ensuring high purity levels with advanced freeze concentration technology.
Concentrates and Separates Liquid Food and Pharmaceuticals
The IceCon® Freeze Concentration System from GEA revolutionizes the concentration process for liquid food and pharmaceuticals. With a smart design and fewer parts, IceCon® uses a sophisticated solid-liquid separation technique to maintain maximum quality and purity. The system uses a cooling jacket and scraped vessel to produce optimal ice crystals, which are efficiently separated from concentrated liquids, preserving valuable flavors and nutrients. Ideal for producing fruit juices, coffee, tea, milk concentrates, and pharmaceutical suspensions, the system achieves continuous operation at capacities from 10 to 10,000 kg/h. Its energy-efficient design minimizes thermal degradation and eliminates microbial activity. Available in corrosion-resistant materials, IceCon® is compliant with industry standards for safe and hygienic operations, offering CIP systems for easy maintenance and options for customized configurations based on specific throughput requirements.
Benefits
- Preserves product quality by preventing thermal degradation and oxidation.
- Enhances flavor and nutrient retention by separating only water in ice crystals.
- Reduces energy usage with efficient cooling and circulation design.
- Facilitates easy integration into existing production lines with compact, skid-mounted units.
- Ensures compliance with hygiene standards through corrosion-resistant materials and CIP systems.
- Applications
- Food,Beverage,Liquid food concentrates,Dairy,Pharmaceuticals
- End products
- Coffee concentrates,Pharmaceutical suspensions,Milk concentrates,Broth concentrates,Whey protein concentrate,Plant-based milk concentrates,Tea concentrates,Soup bases,Fruit juices,Essential oils
- Steps before
- Purification,Filtration,Homogenization
- Steps after
- Concentration,Packaging,Storage
- Input ingredients
- liquid food,feed,water
- Output ingredients
- concentrated syrup,ice crystals,concentrates,flavors,volatile ingredients,health promoting ingredients
- 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.
- Capacity
- 10 to 10,000 kg/h
- Design
- Simple design
- Operation
- Continuous and stable
- Thermal degradation
- No thermal degradation
- Oxidation
- No oxidation
- Product preservation
- Preserves volatiles and original product characteristics
- Microbiological activity
- Eliminates microbiological activity
- Separation method
- Unique solid-liquid separation
- Product quality
- Quality retention to its maximum
- Ice crystal separation
- Efficient separation with wash column
- Working Mechanism
- Solid-liquid separation
- Integrated Steps
- Freeze concentration with crystallizer
- Batch vs. Continuous Operation
- Continuous
- Automation Level
- PLC / SCADA
- CIP/SIP
- CIP compatible
- Cleaning Method
- CIP
- Density/particle size
- 0.5–2.5 g/cm³ / 50–1000 µm
- Discharge method
- Wash column with melted ice
- Machine footprint
- Multistage systems (10 to 10,000 kg/h)
- Unit design
- Standard skid mounted
- Cooling jacket
- Vessel with scraped inner wall and cooled outer wall
- Shape of vessel
- Cylindrical with cooling jacket
- Control panel type
- PLC-controlled
- Integration possibilities
- SCADA,ERP systems
- Skid mounted units
- Standard options