Fruit pieces handling for juice production
Achieve perfect fruit piece integration in juice with a system designed to prevent mechanical damage, ensure uniform mixing, and maintain ingredient integrity, minimizing sedimentation while adapting effortlessly to various fruit types and production requirements.
Mixes and Pasturizes Fruit Pieces in Juices
The fruit piece handling and mixing system from A Due S.p.A. is designed for beverage manufacturers needing precise fruit piece integration within their products. This system prevents mechanical and heat damage to fruit pieces, offering flexibility across types and packaging. It features horizontal batch tanks with specialized slow-turning stirrers, ensuring homogeneous mixing while preserving fruit integrity. Applications range from orange juice with pulp to flavored waters infused with fruit cells. Processing includes automated dosing, pasteurization, and sedimentation prevention, seamlessly integrating into your existing workflow via PLC control. Constructed from stainless steel, this system is customizable to match your production requirements and is integrated with CIP capabilities for hassle-free maintenance.
Benefits
- Ensures consistent product quality by maintaining uniform fruit piece distribution.
- Minimizes product wastage and contamination risk with precise dosing and monitoring.
- Reduces energy costs through optimized heating and circulation systems.
- Enhances product integrity with gentle mixing that prevents fruit damage.
- Streamlines operations with easy integration into existing production lines and automated control systems.
- Applications
- Beverages,Liquid formulations,Juice with fruit pieces,Food applications,Non-alcoholic beverages,Fruit juices,Flavored water
- End products
- Aseptic fruit concentrates,Bottled fruit-infused water,Fruit slurry-based drinks,Pineapple juice with pieces,Flavored water with fruit cells,Strawberry juice with pieces,Mango juice with pieces,Non-alcoholic beverages with fruit bits,Orange juice with pulp,Fruit nectars with pulp
- Steps before
- Juice extraction,Concentration,Blending
- Steps after
- Packaging,Pasteurization,Cold storage
- Input ingredients
- fruit juice,orange cells,fruit pieces,acids,aromas,thickeners,pectins,clear juice,aseptic or frozen cells,dices
- Output ingredients
- finished fruit juice with pieces,homogeneously mixed fruit pieces in juice
- Market info
- A Due is known for designing and manufacturing beverage processing equipment, specializing in water treatment, syrup preparation, and complete automation solutions for the beverage industry, with a strong reputation for innovation and quality engineering.
- Mixing tank type
- Horizontal batch tanks
- Stirrer speed
- Slow turning stirrers
- Product integrity preservation
- Special slow turning stirrers
- Tank heating method
- Trapcold honeycomb heating
- Heating temperature
- 110°C
- Automation
- PLC-controlled
- Flow control
- Magnetic flowmeter
- Loading capacity monitoring
- Three compression loading cells per mixer
- Temperature control
- Internal product temperature control probe
- Product unloading
- Two food piping systems
- Dosing system
- Positive-displacement pumps
- Drum handling system
- Semiautomatic drum-dumping robots / Automatic drum dumpers with four heads
- Pasteurization option
- In-line or tunnel pasteurization
- Process control interface
- Touch Screen
- Water circulation
- Double circuit for overheated water
- Working mechanism
- Special slow turning stirrers
- Batch vs. continuous operation
- Batch
- Automation level
- PLC-controlled
- CIP/SIP
- Integration with CIP unit
- Heat damage prevention
- Horizontal batch tanks,cold mixing
- Mixing process
- Hot and cold options
- Packaging flexibility
- Variety of cells and pieces
- Simulation and control system
- T.I.Be.Na.,Fluent
- Fruit piece handling
- Controlled dosing and pasteurization
- Mixing design
- Asymmetrical double stirrer propeller
- Pasteurization method
- In-line or tunnel
- Temperature Control
- Internal product temperature control probe
- Product Integrity
- Preserved through slight stirring
- Cleanability
- High
- Corrosive resistance (e.g. acids)
- Stainless steel
- Density/particle size
- 0.5–2.5 g/cm³ / 3x1mm to 10x10x10 mm
- Particle size range for fruit pieces
- 4x4x4 mm to 10x10x10 mm
- Percentage of fruit juice
- 15% to 50%
- Fruit piece content
- Maximum 10%
- Package type compatibility
- Aseptic / Frozen drums
- Product heat sensitivity
- Yes
- Heat process handling
- Hot (110°C) or cold process
- Dosing method
- Positive-displacement pump
- Mixing homogeneity
- Special slow turning stirrers
- Simulation software used
- T.I.Be.Na.,Fluent
- Tank type
- Horizontal batch tanks
- Heating method
- Trapcold honeycomb heating space
- Tank shape
- Horizontal batch tanks
- Tank size
- Low volume
- Mixing method
- Slow turning stirrers
- Special stirrer design
- Double stirrer propeller
- Tank insulation
- Yes
- Heating method
- Trapcold honeycomb heating
- Feet arrangement
- Three feet with loading cell constraints
- Material feeding method
- Positive-displacement pumps
- Control panel type
- Touch Screen
- Integration possibilities
- Integration with CIP unit and syrup room
- Mixing types
- Hot or Cold Mixing
- Heating options
- Trapcold honeycomb heating space
- Tank type
- Horizontal batch tanks