Rotary drum blancher for vegetables
Streamline your processing line with this rotary drum solution, ensuring precise blanching, cooking, cooling, and rehydrating for diverse food products while reducing energy and water consumption.
Blanches, Cooks, and Cools High-Volume Food Products
The Rotary Drum Blancher from Lyco Manufacturing offers a robust solution for high-volume food processing. Utilizing a trunnion/wheel support design, it eliminates shaft breakage while ensuring efficient blanching, cooking, cooling, and rehydrating in a continuous operation. This equipment is pivotal for processing vegetables, dry beans, rice, pasta, and plant-based proteins, delivering optimal results for blanched carrots, canned beans, and sous vide proteins. It boasts a 50% higher throughput than competitors, handling up to 24 feet in length and available in diameters up to 72 inches. Energy-efficient and designed for a smaller footprint, it saves water and energy, offering precise control over retention times from 2 to 60 minutes. Featuring easy-to-clean sanitary construction, the Rotary Drum Blancher integrates seamlessly into existing production lines, reducing both process times and maintenance costs. Best suited for food, meat, poultry, and pet food industries, it aligns with continuous high-volume operations, accommodating both solid and slurry product types.
Benefits
- Maximizes processing efficiency with 50% higher throughput.
- Reduces energy and water usage for cost-effective operations.
- Ensures uniform product quality with precise temperature control.
- Streamlines maintenance with durable trunnion design and easy-to-clean construction.
- Integrates seamlessly into high-volume production lines, minimizing space requirements.
- Applications
- Sous vide,Meat/poultry/seafood,Pasta,Pet food,Green beans,Plant-based protein,Rice,Vegetables,Dry beans
- End products
- Blanched carrots,Veggie burgers,Canned dog food,Canned kidney beans,Frozen green beans,Parboiled rice,Pasta salad mix,Sous vide chicken breast
- Steps before
- Cleaning,Sorting,Pre-processing,Material Handling
- Steps after
- Cooling,Packing,Further Processing,Quality Control
- Input ingredients
- dry beans,vegetables,rice,pasta,green beans,sous vide packaged food
- Output ingredients
- blanched dry beans,blanched vegetables,blanched rice,blanched pasta,blanched green beans,cooked or rehydrated sous vide food
- Market info
- Lyco Manufacturing is known for designing and producing innovative cooking, cooling, and liquid-solid separation equipment, primarily for the food processing industry, with a strong reputation for reliability, efficiency, and cutting-edge solutions.
- Diameter
- 36 in. (91.44 cm) to 72 in. (182.88 cm)
- Length
- 4 ft. (1.22 m) to 28 ft. (8.53 m)
- Throughput
- 50% higher than competition
- Retention time
- 2 to 60 minutes
- Cooling time reduction
- 40%
- Energy efficiency
- Less energy consumption
- Water usage
- Less water usage
- Capacity
- Higher capacity in a smaller footprint
- Agitation
- Gentle agitation
- Working mechanism
- Rotary drum with direct steam
- Batch vs. continuous operation
- Continuous
- Integrated steps
- Blanching,cooking,cooling
- Agitation system
- Gentle agitation
- Retention time control
- 2 to 60 minutes
- Automation level
- Precision manufacturing
- Energy efficiency
- Less energy usage
- Footprint
- Smaller
- CIP principles
- Easy-to-clean sanitary construction
- Machine footprint
- Small footprint
- Drum diameter
- 36 in / 48 in / 60 in / 72 in
- Drum length
- 4 ft – 28 ft
- Discharge method
- Chute discharge
- Feed method
- Gravity chute or water-cushioned in-feed flume
- Sanitary construction
- Yes
- Control panel type
- PLC-controlled
- Discharge method
- Gravity chute / water-cushioned in-feed flume
- Drum diameter
- 36 in. (91.44 cm) to 72 in. (182.88 cm)
- Drum length
- 4 ft. (1.22 m) to 28 ft. (8.53 m)