Indirect Uht treatment for dairy products
Ensure your beverages achieve extended shelf life with consistent quality using advanced UHT treatment, optimizing heating and cooling efficiencies while maintaining an aseptic environment. Perfect for enhancing product stability and flavor preservation in liquid food processes.
Processes and Aseptically Treats Liquid Foods
The Tetra Pak® Indirect UHT Unit DE is engineered to deliver continuous, ultra-high temperature processing for a broad range of liquid foods, ensuring aseptic conditions for extended shelf-stable products. This unit employs a tubular or plate heat exchanger for indirect heating, maximizing efficiency through product-to-product heat regeneration—achieving 92% heat recovery and minimizing steam and cooling medium use. Designed for diverse applications, it effectively processes dairy, plant-based beverages, and low-acid products like soy milk and juices, managing up to 40,000 liters per hour. The unit integrates seamlessly into production lines with PLC control and remote monitoring capabilities, ensuring optimal operation and minimal maintenance disruption. Energy efficiency is enhanced with automatic features such as hibernation mode to reduce cooling-water usage by 85% during downtimes. Built with corrosion-resistant materials, it promises durability and compliance with industry standards, complete with a fully automated CIP system for enhanced cleanliness and operator safety. Customization options cater to specific production needs, supported by Tetra Pak’s comprehensive engineering expertise.
Benefits
- Enhances production efficiency with up to 92% heat recovery and low steam consumption.
- Minimizes operational costs through reduced energy and cooling demands.
- Maximizes uptime with smart cleaning solutions and fouling control, extending run times up to 40 hours.
- Increases product yield, reducing milk waste by up to 75 liters per changeover.
- Improves operator safety and compliance with automated cleaning processes and protective features.
- Applications
- Cream,Buffalo milk,Dairy products,Formulated dairy products,Coffee,Yoghurt drinks,Soy milk,Juice,Tea,Flavored milk
- End products
- Ready-to-drink iced tea,Uht milk,Almond soy blend milk,Chocolate-flavored milk,Drinkable yogurt with fruit pulp,Buffalo milk ghee,Lactose-free milk,Whipping cream,Instant coffee beverage,Shelf-stable orange juice
- Steps before
- Pre-sterilization,Homogenization
- Steps after
- Sterilization,Packing,CIP Cleaning
- Input ingredients
- milk,flavoured milk,cream,yoghurt drinks,buffalo milk,formulated dairy products,soy milk,juice,tea,coffee
- Output ingredients
- UHT milk,UHT dairy products,ambient storage liquid food products
- Market info
- Tetra Pak is renowned for providing innovative packaging solutions, specializing in carton packaging for the food and beverage industry. It is esteemed for high-quality, sustainable, and efficient processing and packaging equipment on a global scale.
- Capacity
- 1,000 – 40,000 l/h
- UHT Heat Treatment
- Continuous,aseptic
- Heat Recovery
- Up to 92%
- Steam Consumption
- 20 kg/1000 kg of product
- Running Time
- Up to 40 hours
- Energy Savings
- Up to 11% with insulation
- Regeneration
- Product-to-product
- Steam and Cooling Medium Need
- Reduced
- Temperature Control
- Temperature-controlled,protein denaturation holding tube
- Pressure Control
- ΔT and pressure drop controlled
- Cleaning Technology
- IntelliCIP™ 2.0
- Cleaning Settings Optimization
- Based on fouling degree
- Air Refill
- Automatic in homogenizer damper
- Hibernation Mode
- Energy and water savings during sterile water circulation
- Cooling Requirement
- Drastic reduction
- Heat Exchanger Panel Insulation
- 6% energy savings potential
- Floating Protection System
- Thermal expansion allowance
- Working mechanism
- Indirect UHT treatment with tubular or plate heat exchanger
- Integrated steps
- Continuous ultra-high temperature treatment
- Automation level
- PLC / SCADA
- Energy efficiency
- High efficiency with product-to-product regeneration and low steam consumption
- CIP/SIP
- Fully automated CIP included
- Fouling control
- Temperature-controlled,protein denaturation holding tube
- Batch vs. continuous operation
- Continuous operation
- Cleaning method
- CIP with IntelliCIP™ 2.0
- Changeover time
- Minimized changeover losses with bottom-filling balance tank design
- Additional functions
- Hibernation mode for energy savings during downtime
- Density/particle size
- 0.5–2.5 g/cm³ / 50–1000 µm
- Container type
- Ambient storage suitable
- Heat exchanger type
- Tubular or plate
- Foaming potential
- Low
- Tank shape
- Tubular / Plate
- Discharge method
- Bottom-filling
- Control panel type
- Operator interface with full production overview
- Integration possibilities
- Automation and control systems
- Hibernation mode
- Automatic energy and cooling reduction