Vacuum concentrator for juice and chemical processing
Reduce energy and concentration costs significantly while enhancing product quality through efficient evaporation, desulphurization, and heat recovery processes in your liquid concentrates.

Concentrates and Desulphurizes Liquid Products
The C19 vacuum concentrator from Cadalpe is designed to meet the needs of winemakers, beverage producers, and the chemical industry, addressing the critical requirements of energy-efficient concentration and desulphurization. Utilizing a multi-effect design, it ensures minimal contact time and precise temperature control for high-quality concentrates. Ideal for applications ranging from juice processing to chemical concentrates, the C19 offers a fully automated, continuous operation managed by a centralized control board. Its innovative heat recovery system reduces evaporation costs by recycling process vapors through thermal compression, while a surface condenser ensures significant water savings and eco-friendliness. The system’s customization options include a special desulphurization column, enhancing preprocessing capabilities. With high-speed descending film technology, the C19 delivers quick product heating, making it a valuable asset in integrated production lines demanding reliability and efficiency.
Benefits
- Enhances energy efficiency by recovering and reusing process vapors, lowering operational costs.
- Ensures high product quality with precise temperature and contact time control.
- Minimizes water usage through an eco-friendly cooling system, supporting sustainability goals.
- Increases production efficiency with automated, continuous processing and centralized control.
- Offers customizable desulphurization options, meeting specific processing requirements.
- Applications
- Juices,Beverage industry,Chemical industry,Wine
- End products
- Concentrated fruit juices,Chemical concentrates,Concentrated beverages,Wine concentrate
- Steps before
- Juice preparation,Preliminary desulphurization,Mixing
- Steps after
- Cooling,Packaging,Product storage
- Input ingredients
- juices,chemical substances,processing steam
- Output ingredients
- concentrated product,vapours condensate,desulphurized product
- Market info
- Cadalpe is renowned for designing and manufacturing custom-engineered equipment for the wine, beverage, and food industries, specializing in advanced filtration, distillation, and heat exchange technologies, earning a reputation for innovation and quality.
- Multiple effect concentrator type
- Vacuum with descending film
- Product contact time
- Minimum
- Temperature difference
- Small between heating tube-nest and product
- Water evaporation cost
- Lower due to vapour recovery
- Process vapour recovery
- Available
- Thermal compression
- Yes
- Heat recovery
- From concentrated product and vapours condensate
- Exchange factor
- Maximum with high-speed descending film
- Product heating
- Quick
- Water saving
- Considerable,recycled through a cooling tower
- Pollution control
- Free from substances like sulphur dioxide
- Processing cycle
- Continuous
- Control board
- Centralized and automated
- Discharge flow
- Automated
- Desulphurization
- Special stripping column available on demand
- Working mechanism
- Multiple effect vacuum with descending film
- CIP/SIP
- Automated during crucial phases
- Automation level
- Centralized board control
- Batch vs. continuous operation
- Continuous
- Density/particle size
- 0.5–2.5 g/cm³ / 50–1000 µm
- Control panel type
- Centralized board
- Discharge method
- Automated
- Machine type
- Multiple effect vacuum concentrator with descending film
- Control panel
- Centralized board
- Automation level
- Automated discharge flow
- Desulphurization option
- Special stripping column