Hybrid evaporator for highly viscous tomato concentrate
In the food processing industry, handling highly viscous super-hot break tomato products poses unique challenges. These challenges include maintaining product quality while minimizing thermal damage and energy consumption, as well as ensuring high efficiency in processing.
Efficiently process high-viscosity tomato concentrates
The Hybrid Evaporator from JBT is a versatile evaporator designed to handle super-hot break tomato concentrates that are difficult to process. It combines the most effective elements of JBT’s Forced Circulation Evaporator and the T.A.S.T.E evaporator. By utilizing multiple effect evaporators with upward forced flow recirculation in a vertical tube in shell heater for all effects, the Hybrid Evaporator achieves significant reductions in energy consumption and maintenance requirements. Special inducers ensure very high efficiency at extremely low NPSH, preventing cavitation. Improved organoleptic properties of the output product ensure the highest quality for viscous tomato concentrates. The system includes a vertical tube nest, a liquid-vapor separation chamber, and a recirculation pump in each effect, reducing holding times particularly at high concentrations where thermal damage is a concern.
Benefits
- Reduced energy consumption
- Fast to clean, reducing maintenance costs
- Improved quality of viscous products
- Prevents cavitation with efficient inducers
- Reduces holding times, minimizing thermal damage