Industrial water removal system for food preparation
Enhance your production line with advanced surface water and starch removal, ensuring your snacks are ready for frying or freezing with optimal efficiency. Ideal for maintaining product quality and reducing energy costs, this system ensures clean, dry outputs swiftly across high-speed food processing environments.
Removes Surface Water and Starch Efficiently
The AirSweep® Water Removal System from Heat and Control is designed to enhance the efficiency of snack and food processing lines by combining vacuum action with blow-off forces to effectively remove surface water, starch, and scraps from products like potato chips, fruits, and vegetables. This system is integral to maintaining high product quality while significantly reducing freezing and frying energy requirements. With continuous, high-speed operation, the AirSweep System integrates seamlessly into your existing line, offering reliable processing for applications such as potato crisps, dehydrated fruit snacks, and gourmet flavored chips. Built for durability, its design supports easy cleaning and maintenance to ensure minimal downtime. The system’s PLC-controlled automation allows for optimized energy usage, making it an efficient choice for processors aiming to cut costs while meeting production demands.
Benefits
- Enhances product quality by efficiently removing water and starch, ensuring crispy, clean snack products.
- Cuts energy costs significantly by optimizing fryer and freezer efficiency.
- Seamless integration into existing high-speed production lines minimizes operational disruption.
- Reduces cleaning time and downtime with easy maintenance features.
- Supports a variety of snack and food products, increasing the versatility of your production line.
- Applications
- Snacks,Fruits,Potato chips,Vegetables,Plantain and banana chips
- End products
- Natural fruit chips,Apple slices,Plantain crisps,Potato crisps,Sweet potato fries,Diced carrots,Dehydrated fruit snacks,Gourmet flavored chips,Mixed vegetable chips,Banana crisps
- Steps before
- Washing,Slicing
- Steps after
- Frying,Freezing
- Input ingredients
- potato slices,fruits,vegetables,plantains,banana chips
- Output ingredients
- drier potato slices,drier fruits,drier vegetables,drier plantains,drier banana chips
- Market info
- Heat and Control is known for its expertise in manufacturing food processing and packaging equipment, providing innovative solutions and high-quality systems for industries like snacks, prepared foods, and pharmaceuticals, with a strong reputation for reliability and technical support.
- Functionality
- Water,starch,and scrap removal
- Combination Method
- Vacuum and Air Knife blow-off
- Application Type
- Continuous
- Energy Efficiency
- Reduces fryer fuel usage
- Suitable Products
- Potato slices,fruits,vegetables
- Working mechanism
- Combination of vacuum and Air Knife
- Batch vs. continuous operation
- Continuous operation
- Energy efficiency
- Reduces fryer fuel usage
- Integrated steps
- Water,starch,and scrap removal before frying or freezing
- Density/particle size
- 0.5–2.5 g/cm³ / 50–1000 µm
- Usable for pre-frying/freezing
- Yes
- Control panel type
- PLC-based
- Discharge method
- Air Knife with Vacuum
- Machine footprint
- Compact
- Material
- Stainless Steel