Tips On How To Choose The Right Pasteurizer

Pasteurizer is one of the equipment used in the food and beverage industry, is also a very important production process, the equipment can kill a variety of bacteria in food and beverage, so that food meets the standard safety and shelf life, the production standards and requirements of each food factory are different, so choose the right pasteurization machine need to consider many factors.

Before choosing a pasteurizer, you first need to consider the characteristics of the product you want to deal with; Different viscosity fluid drinks or jams need to use different types of pasteurizers, such as low viscosity fluid drinks need to use plate pasteurizers, and high viscosity fluid drinks are more suitable for tubular pasteurizers.

If the fluid beverage contains particles, a tubular pasteurizer capable of handling particles is needed to ensure that particles will not be blocked in the channel to avoid blocking the channel to reduce productivity and increase the work burden. At the suggestion of our engineers, the customer added a tubular pasteurizer, which completely solved the sterilization problem of strawberry pulp.

The PH value and salt content of the fluid are also one of the characteristic factors that need to be considered, the PH value and salt value of some foods may be corrosive to the equipment, so it is necessary to consider the pasteurizer of corrosion-resistant materials for fluids with a high PH value, or choose a pasteurizer that can be customized. Salt soda is popular in the Chinese market, and this product contains certain salt, which can fully replenish the salt lost by the human body in summer. For the production of salt soda and salt-containing salad dressing, our company uses the lowest material standard of AISI316L for the part in contact with the product, and the higher material standard is titanium alloy. It depends on the customer's requirements.

Different products, different shelf life, different filling forms, all these determine the different sterilization temperatures. Therefore, our company's salespeople will ask customers some questions when contacting customers, and these questions are the prerequisite for us to recommend suitable pasteurizers for customers. For example, the milk filled by Tetra Pak brick uses a sterilization process of 137 ° C and 4 seconds, while the pasteurized milk filled by plastic bags uses a sterilization process of 85 ° C and 15 seconds. So what is your product? What type of filling is planned? How long is the shelf life? These will determine what type of pasteurizer you should use.

The safety of food production is a necessary and very important factor. Different industries and countries for food hygiene standards are all different, so you need to determine what the standard is, such as the food industry HACCP standards, etc., to ensure that the pasteurizer you choose can effectively kill microorganisms, and meet the requirements of relevant regulations and standards. Usually in the market of conventional products, our company has sufficient experience in the whole line design, our company for milk, soy milk, cashew nut drinks, juice drinks, cola (CSD), ketchup and other products have a very rich experience in the whole line design.

The production capacity and output of the factory is also one of the concerns, you need to statistics the production efficiency and estimated production capacity of the production line, according to the statistical data to choose the pasteurizer with the corresponding processing capacity, to ensure that it can meet the production demand and avoid the risk of substandard production capacity.

In addition, you also need to consider the capacity, shape and size of the equipment to ensure that the pasteurizer can be adapted to your production line equipment and meet the output.

The common pasteurizer is usually configured with automatic control system, in the production process can achieve accurate temperature control, time control, etc., you need to understand the control system and functions of the equipment, choose the degree of automation suitable for their needs, such as full automatic control, semi-automatic control, etc. Our company has a very rich experience in the design and remote debugging of automation control. During the COVID-19 pandemic in 2022, we successfully tested two fully automatic pasteurizers remotely for US customers.

Cleaning and maintenance is one of the factors to ensure the long-term operation of equipment. You need to pay attention to whether the maintenance and cleaning work of the equipment is convenient, and whether the equipment is convenient to disassemble and clean, whether there is a design to prevent residue and pollution, these factors will affect the use of pasteurizer. Easy to maintain pasteurizer can reduce the situation of downtime, reduce the loss caused by downtime.

The price of the equipment depends on the design capacity of the machine, the material standard, the degree of automation and the brand of accessories. Usually we use high standard of configuration and international first-line brand accessories. Regarding the use cost of the machine, we usually consider from two aspects: First, the wearing parts of the pasteurizer itself, we usually use higher quality, wear-resistant high temperature corrosion resistant materials, reducing the frequency of replacement in order to ensure the continuity of production and safety. Secondly, we will consider reducing the user's cost from the aspect of energy consumption. Usually we add more material costs in terms of heat recovery, which is our responsibility.

When plate pasteurizer and tubular pasteurizer are available, we recommend that customers choose according to the following two aspects:

1、Machine cost;

2、The site size of the machine;Usually the tubular pasteurizer needs a larger site size, and need to meet the maintenance and replacement of the heat exchange tube.

Choosing the right pasteurizer is an important task, the right pasteurizer for your production has a great help, if you have more questions can contact the pasteurizer manufacturer, they can provide more perfect pasteurizer solutions.