Pre-cooking and final cooking for candy production
Optimize your candy production with a versatile cooker designed to handle pre-cooking and final cooking with precision and efficiency, ensuring high-quality confectionery outcomes while minimizing energy consumption.
Pre-Cooks and Final-Cooks Sugar-Based Slurries
The CROSSFLOW® from Hänsel Processing is a versatile tube-in-shell heat exchanger designed to bring efficiency and precision to your confectionery production. Specially engineered for pre-cooking and final cooking of sugar-based slurries, it replaces traditional coil cookers with a counter-current crossflow design, which ensures even heat distribution through the use of baffles.
This equipment excels in producing a diverse range of confectionery and nutraceutical products, including caramel squares, butterscotch toffees, nougat bars, and multivitamin gummies. With a processing capacity ranging from 8 to 4,000 kg/h, it offers significant space-saving advantages, particularly for operations with large throughputs.
Automation is a key feature of the CROSSFLOW®, providing a fully automated start-up, shutdown, and cleaning process. It maintains a stable and precise cooking temperature of ±0.1 K, yielding high product quality with short residence and response times. Additionally, it ensures uniform discharge into the vapor separation chamber, while its gentle processing capabilities help preserve product integrity.
The CROSSFLOW® operates with low vapor pressure thanks to its excellent heat transfer properties, making it energy-efficient. This equipment also functions as a pressure dissolver for sugar crystals with initial total solids of 90 TS, facilitating gentle and energy-saving dissolution. Available in various material options, it is suitable for integration into any confectionery manufacturing process.
Benefits
- Enhances production efficiency with precise temperature control and short response times.
- Conserves energy by operating with low vapor pressure, thanks to optimal heat transfer properties.
- Reduces production footprint due to compact design and space-saving installation.
- Ensures consistent product quality with uniform heat distribution and gentle processing.
- Minimizes operational disruption with fully automated start-up, shutdown, and cleaning processes.
- Applications
- Jelly,Otc supplements,Nutraceuticals,Fondant,Toffees,Bars,Hard candy,Torrone,Chewy candies,Eclairs,Fruit gummies
- End products
- Almond torrone,Nougat bars,Multivitamin gummies,Gelatin-based gummy bears,Chocolate eclairs,Butterscotch toffees,Pectin jellies,Probiotic lozenges,Caramel squares,Marshmallow fondant,Taffy,Lollipops
- Steps before
- Mixing,Raw Material Handling,Heating,Slurry Preparation
- Steps after
- Cooling,Vapour Separation,Product Discharge,Quality Control,Packaging
- Input ingredients
- sugar-glucose-slurries,sugar crystals,90 TS initial total solids
- Output ingredients
- fondant,fruit gummies,jelly,hard candy,toffee,eclair,chewy candies
- Market info
- Haensel-Processing is known for its expertise in developing and manufacturing high-quality engineered-to-order equipment for the confectionery industry, offering innovative solutions and customized machinery that enhance production efficiency and product quality.
- Capacity
- 8–4,000 kg/h
- Heat Transfer
- Tube-in-shell heat exchanger
- Flow Pattern
- Counter-current crossflow
- Temperature Control Accuracy
- + / - 0.1 K
- Total Solids
- 90 TS
- Automation
- Fully automated start-up and shutdown
- Response Time
- Short
- Cleaning Process
- Fully automated
- Working mechanism
- Tube-in-shell heat exchanger
- Flow pattern
- Counter-current crossflow
- Batch vs. continuous operation
- Continuous
- Automated Process
- Fully automated start-up and shutdown
- Precise Temperature Control
- ±0.1 K
- Energy Efficiency
- Low energy consumption due to gentle process
- Cleaning Method
- CIP
- Start-up and Shutdown Behaviour
- Optimal
- Density/particle size
- 0.5–2.5 g/cm³ / 50–1000 µm
- Machine footprint
- Varies from small to large,accommodating 8 to 4000 kg/h
- Heat exchanger type
- Tube-in-shell
- Flow pattern
- Counter-current crossflow
- Baffle configuration
- Multiple baffles for uniform flow
- Discharge method
- Uniform discharge into vapor separation chamber
- Process type
- Pre-cooker and final-cooker
- Installation type
- Space-saving design
- Cooking Temperature Precision
- ±0.1 K
- Discharge Method
- Uniform Discharge into Vapour Separation Chamber
- Compact Footprint
- Space-Saving Installation
- Automation Level
- Fully Automated Start-Up and Shutdown
- Cleaning Process
- Fully Automated Cleaning
- Pressure Dissolver
- Available
- Product Flow Control
- Baffles for Equal Passing