High intensity preconditioner for textured vegetable proteins
Optimizing your production with precise moisture control and enhanced particle uniformity, high-intensity preconditioners are key to achieving consistent quality in textured proteins, pet foods, and specialty aquatic feeds.
Preconditions and Mixes Ingredients for Extruate Uniformity
The High Intensity Preconditioner (HIP) from Wenger is designed to improve mixing and preconditioning in extrusion lines for food, pet food, and aquatic feed applications. This advanced system utilizes dual independently driven shafts to achieve enhanced particle size reduction and moisture uniformity, ensuring consistent heating and improved end-product quality. With mixing capacities of up to 24,000 kg/hr, the HIP increases extrusion line efficiency by enhancing pasteurization, sanitation, and starch gelatinization, while reducing product waste and mechanical energy input. Integrating seamlessly with Wenger extruders, the HIP features rotational speed controls and a roll-away option for flexible process adjustments, catering to a wide range of products. Suitable for processing both solid and slurry ingredients, it permits high moisture retention critical for advanced recipes, such as meat slurries. Constructed for optimal hygiene, the system’s dynamically balanced beaters ensure minimal material buildup and easy cleaning, making it a reliable component for continuous, high-speed operations.
Benefits
- Enhances product quality by ensuring uniform moisture and heating.
- Increases production efficiency with high capacity throughput up to 24,000 kg/hr.
- Reduces energy costs by lowering mechanical energy input.
- Adapts to diverse recipes and product requirements with flexible operation modes.
- Lowers cleaning and maintenance frequency with hygienic design and easy-clean components.
- Applications
- Snacks,Slow-sinking aquatic feeds,Consumer applications,Recirculating aquaculture system (ras) feeds,Rte cereals,Hybrid products,Ingredients,High fresh meat inclusion pet food,Industrial products,Protein crisps,Traditional kibble,Textured vegetable proteins,Specialty feeds,Pet treats,Sinking aquatic feeds,Semi-moist pet food,Structured meat analogs,Floating aquatic feeds,Breadings
- End products
- Pea protein crisps,Meat substitutes,Beef inclusion dog food,Pet dental chews,Cornmeal breading,Salmon kibble,Tilapia floating pellets,Soy protein isolate,Shrimp ras diet,Biodegradable industrial packaging,Trout sinking feed,Cornflakes,Plant-based consumer products,Poultry semi-moist treats,Puffed snack pellets,Granola,Exotic species specialty feed,Muesli base flakes,Ornamental fish slow-sinking pellets,Panko breadcrumbs
- Steps before
- Grinding,Ingredient Mixing,Moisture Adjustment
- Steps after
- Sterilization,Extrusion,Coating,Packaging
- Input ingredients
- meat slurries,liquids,textured vegetable proteins,structured meat analogs,ingredients,protein crisps,breadings,RTE cereals,snacks,hybrid products
- Output ingredients
- smaller particle sizes,uniform product moisture,consistent heating,high fresh meat inclusion,floating feeds,sinking feeds,slow-sinking feeds,RAS feeds,specialty feeds
- Market info
- Wenger is known for its expertise in manufacturing extruders and dryers for pet food, aquatic feed, and food processing industries, renowned for reliability, innovation, and custom-engineered solutions worldwide.
- Mixing Capacity
- Up to 24,000 kg/hr
- Mixing Intensity Settings
- Three levels
- Shafts
- Two independently driven shafts of different sizes
- Retention Time
- Wide range available
- Coefficient of Variation
- 2.65%
- Thermal Energy Input
- Increased
- Mechanical Energy Input
- Reduced
- Hygiene Level
- Highest
- Rotational Speed Control
- Available
- Mixing intensity settings
- Three settings
- Shaft drive configuration
- Two independently driven shafts
- Capacity
- Up to 24,000 kg/hr
- Automation level
- Variable control settings
- Batch vs. continuous operation
- Continuous
- Cleaning method
- CIP / Slide gate for reduced discharge
- Pasteurization and sanitation
- Improved hygiene
- Retained moisture benefit
- Allows higher moisture content processing
- Energy input
- Reduced mechanical,increased thermal
- Roll away feature
- Bypass option available
- Density/particle size
- 0.5–2.5 g/cm³ / 50–1000 µm
- Moisture Handling Capability
- High
- Shaft configuration
- Two independently driven shafts of different sizes
- Mixing capacity
- Up to 24,000 kg/hr
- Mixing intensity settings
- Three settings
- Rotational speed control
- Yes
- Roll Away Feature
- Yes,enables bypass of the HIP
- Hygienic design
- Dynamically balanced beaters
- Roll Away Feature
- Yes
- Slide gate
- Yes