HOMOGENIZERS
Homogenizers are used for achieving uniformity and consistent mixture quality in liquids and emulsions
Homogenizers are used for the creation of consistent, homogenous textures and combinations of flavors across a variety of products in the food and related industries. Homogenizers break down particles to a small size, ensuring consistent emulsification, dispersion, and uniform particle sizes in various mixtures. This guide explores the types of homogenizers, their principle and applications in food processing.
The role of homogenizers
Homogenizers are designed to break down and evenly distribute particles within a mixture, resulting in a uniform product. This process is particularly important for achieving desired smooth and consistent textures to prevent ingredient separation at a later stage. Homogenizers enhance the consistency and quality of dairy products, sauces, smoothies, creams, beverages and many other products.
Operating principle of homogenizers
Homogenizers use mechanical force to reduce particle size and ensure uniform mixing. The process involves forcing the mixture through a narrow gap between a rapidly rotating rotor and a stator, generating high shear forces. These forces break down product particles facilitating thorough mixing and emulsification. Homogenization improves product texture, enhances shelf life by preventing separation, and increases stability during storage.
Types of homogenizers
Rotor-Stator Homogenizers - Utilizing a rotor and stator assembly, these devices create intense shear forces to achieve particle reduction and uniform mixing. Available in two configurations:
- Continuous Homogenizers: These consist primarily of a motor with a rotor and a stator, they are mostly used in production lines to ensure continuous homogenization.
- Working Batch Units: These homogenizers come with a working unit and a built-in homogenizer, making them ideal for processing mixtures in predetermined batches.
Applications in the food industry
Homogenizers find extensive applications in the production of various food products:
- Dairy Products: Homogenization prevents cream separation in milk, enhances texture and consistency in yogurt, cheese, and ice cream.
- Beverages: From fruit juices to smoothies, homogenizers ensure uniform size and distribution of ingredients and flavors.
- Sauces and Dressings: Achieving consistent emulsification enhances the appearance and texture of sauces, dressings and condiments.
- Pharmaceuticals: Homogenization is crucial in pharmaceutical production, ensuring even distribution of active ingredients in liquid medicine, creams and lotions.
- Fruit and Vegetable Blends: Homogenizers contribute to the creation of well-homogenized and uniform fruit and vegetable mixtures, maintaining quality and flavor consistency.
Advantages of homogenizers
- Texture Enhancement: Homogenization creates a smoother texture, eliminating grittiness and ensuring a pleasant mouthfeel.
- Stability Improvement: By preventing ingredient separation and settling, homogenizers enhance product stability and shelf life.
- Flavor Consistency: Uniform mixing ensures consistent particle size and flavor distribution throughout the product.
- Microbial Control: The high shear forces involved in homogenization contribute to reduced microbial contamination.
Homogenizers from FoodTechProcess for achieving a smooth product texture
FoodTechProcess offers an array of homogenizers, each suited for different needs in the food industry. These homogenization units are used for precise particle size reduction, efficient emulsification, and uniform mixing, which contribute to smooth texture consistency and product stability, preventing separation during storage.
A twin-screw mixer with a homogenizer is an ideal solution for the production of creamy cheese, such as feta cheese, including with various flavors and seasonings. Thanks to mechanical homogenization, the cheese acquires a delicate structure without changing the individual taste properties of the product. It is used for plasticizing, creaming and softening butter, margarine and other fats.
- A capacious volumetric mixer with a capacity of 50 l
- Compact tabletop design for convenient operator maintenance
- A powerful independent drive for each screw with a reverser
- Easy maintenance and cleaning of the equipment
- Material: Stainless steel
- Total power, kW: 3,5
- Voltage: 380-400V
The price is set for the basic version of the installation without additional equipment.
The vacuum homogenizer is designed for a wide range of processes such as for the production of mayonnaise, ketchup, various sauces, confectionery pastes and fillings, liquid or paste like products with a homogeneous structure. It is also suitable for the production of various creams, gels, shampoos and other products in the cosmetic industry.
- Built-in Ultra Shear bottom homogenizer
- Mixing device with movable scrapers
- Tilting version for easy unloading
- Wide range of applications
- Entirely made of food grade stainless steel AISI304/ AISI316 - option
- Compact design
- Lots of additional options to choose from
- Material: Stainless steel
- Principle of operation: Batch mode
- Country of origin: Slovakia
- Volume: 20l/ 50l
- Total power, kW: 2,3/ 2,4
- Voltage: 220-230V
- Max vacuum: -0,8 Bar
Model VMG S is an effective and reliable vacuum homogenizing unit designed to produce a wide range of liquid, pastry and viscous products with different requirements for the production conditions.
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The homogenizer is designed for emulsifying thick fluids and other viscous materials within the food, chemical and cosmetic industries. Its working principle is based on the rotor/stator principle.Â
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Vacuum homogenizer VMG M is the ideal solution for the production of pilot batches and the industrial production of a wide range of products of small and medium production. The price depends on the production capacity.
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The vacuum homogenizer is designed for whipping mayonnaise, ketchup, various sauces, confectionery pastes and fillings, condensed milk, jams and marmalades, canned goods, as well as similar liquid or pasty products with a homogeneous structure.
- Homogenizer in an external circulation loop
- Built-in vacuum generation and retention system
- Modular design with numerous options
- Possibility of automatic dosing of ingredients (optional)
- No additional pump required for loading/unloading
- Automatic top cover lifting system
- Material: Stainless steel
- Principle of operation: Batch mode
- Country of origin: Slovakia
- Volume: 650l
- Total power, kW: 13,5
- Voltage: 380-400V
- Max vacuum: -0,8 Bar
The VMG S 650P vacuum homogenizing unit can be used for making toothpaste as well as a variety of similar products with complex production requirements.
- The vacuum ensures effective air removal, eliminating the conditions for the development of bacteria and other pathogenic organisms.
- The special shape of the mixing device is tailored for the thickest and most viscous products.Â
- The Ultra Shear submersible homogenizer creates a stable emulsion.
- The cavitation processes aid in activating hydrodynamic mixing.
- Heating: Electricity
- Material: Stainless steel
- Heating power, kW: 29
- Principle of operation: Batch mode
- Country of origin: Slovakia
- Volume: 650l
- Total power, kW: 52
- Voltage: 380-400V
- Max vacuum: -0,8 Bar
The price is indicated for the basic version of the set of equipment with a homogenizer
The equipment for the production of ice cream mixtures is based on a universal vacuum reactor with a coolant jacket and a multi-stage dispersant/homogenizer in an external circulation loop.
- Special type of a stirring device for easy disassembly and cleaning
- Processing with minimal product loss
- The bottom outlet valve is included in the basic version of the installation
- Multi-stage disperser for intensive wetting and homogenization of the flowing mixture
- External circulation circuit with a three-way valve for operation/washing of the equipment
- Reinforced agitator drive for thick and viscous mixtures
- Built-in vacuum pump
- Material: Stainless steel
- Principle of operation: Batch mode
- Country of origin: Slovakia
- Volume: 100l
- Total power, kW: 3
- Voltage: 380-400V
- Max vacuum: -0,8 Bar
A professional mixer for the production of mayonnaise, sauces, soups and other homogenized products. The price depends on your production capacity, as well as the technological requirements.
- Material: Stainless steel
- Principle of operation: Batch mode
- Country of origin: Slovakia
- Volume: 100l/ 200l
- Total power, kW: 6
Inline Yumix Basic homogenizers have the lowest price in the range of YUMIX homogenizers and models range from 1.1 to 3 kW.
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This high-shear inline homogenizer can be used for grinding, and the production of thick substances such as sauces, pastes or spreads, chocolate creams and margarine emulsions.
Vacuum mixer processing plant for viscous products is an ideal solution for the production of pilot batches and the industrial manufacturing of a wide range of products from small to medium capacity.
The mixers are made up of a double-walled cylindrical stainless steel vessel with cavity, with drain hole and 50 cm diameter butterfly valve. The cavity is filled with water which is heated by an electric resistance thermostat. The honey is mixed by blades with a marine propeller profile, adjustable in height along an oblique shaft.Â
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The homogenization of butter is carried out in order to improve the butter's consistency and taste stability under storage conditions.
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The universal boiler with an integrated homogenizer and a capacity of 1200 liters is designed for efficient mixing, heating, cooking and homogenizing of products for food, pharmaceutical and cosmetic industries such as jams, marmalades, syrups, fruit juices, nectars, beers, creams, ointments, soaps and many others.
The price is set for the basic version of the installation for making plant milk without a steam generator
The Veggie Milk cooking kettle is used as a unit for hydrodynamic thermal extraction of substances from legumes and nuts to create a finished suspension - the basis of plant based drinks.
- Efficient and fast extraction
- Partial pasteurization due to direct steam injection
- High-powered bottom homogenizer
- Hydrodynamic mixing
- Mechanical shaft seal for the homogenizer with an open cooling system
- Safety grid on the hatch cover for safe product loading
- Sectional plexiglass hatch for visual inspection
- Productivity: 600 kg/h for soybeans
- Material: Stainless steel
- Principle of operation: Batch mode
- Country of origin: Slovakia
- Volume: 120l
- Total power, kW: 7,5
- Voltage: 380-400V
We produce atmospheric honey homogenizers with a batch load ranging from 7500 up to 22 000 kg of honey. The homogenizers HPL are designed for thoroughly mixing, blending, and homogenizing various kinds of honey to improve its qualities.
The price depends on the options you choose.
Multifunctional vacuum mixer/homogenizer for grinding, mixing, and homogenizing products to obtain homogeneous masses.
- Built-in jacket for the bottom and walls of the unit.
- Cutter knives with a powerful electric drive
- Slanted design for efficient mixing and chopping
- Forced circulation circuit (optional)
- Wide range of options
- Material: Stainless steel
- Principle of operation: Batch mode
- Country of origin: Slovakia
- Volume: 350l/ 650l
- Total power, kW: 13/ 17
- Voltage: 380-400V
- Max vacuum: -0,8 Bar
The vacuum homogenizer with an inclined design is designed for processing and manufacturing a wide range of liquid, pasty and viscous products with different requirements for their production conditions and other products including those with a high viscosity.
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Highly efficient production of a high viscosity pharmaceutical and cosmetic products.
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The price is indicated for the basic version of the vacuum reactor without additional options, the final cost depends on the modifications
The vacuum homogenizer is an ideal solution for the production of food, for example mayonnaise, it is also suitable for the cosmetics industry - the production of toothpaste. This model of the homogenizer is based on a vacuum reactor with an external homogenizer and an external circulation circuit, the parameters of which are selected as options.
- Tilted design - 25% more efficient mixing
- Easily disassembled reinforced frame mixer, for thick and viscous products
- Jacket for the coolant around the bottom and walls of the working reactor
- The vacuum reactor can withstand a vacuum up to -0.8 Bar
- A large number of options to choose from to suit various requirements
- Material: Stainless steel
- Principle of operation: Batch mode
- Country of origin: Slovakia
- Volume: 300l/ 650l
- Total power, kW: 0,55
- Voltage: 380-400V
- Max vacuum: -0,8 Bar
The butter texturizer FBHG is intended for mechanical processing of frozen blocks of butter, animal fat, margarine and other plan fats, without prior defrosting.
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The homogenizer is designed to homogenize, mix and disintegrate / grind different fluids and components into small particles.
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The price depends on the required capacity. For additional information or a price quote, send us an email at sales@foodtechprocess.com
The inline homogenizer is designed for mixing, emulsifying, dispersing, and homogenizing thick and viscous products in the production of mayonnaise, soy milk, toothpaste, yogurt, and much more. It can be installed in an external circulation circuit of reactors, production lines, or used independently with a loading hopper for processing small volumes of products.
- Creates stable emulsions and suspensions
- Reduces particle size
- Quickly dissolves solids
- Accelerates chemical reactions
- Does not require an additional pump
- Material: Stainless steel
- Engine power, kW: 5,5/ 7,5/ 9/ 11/ 15
- Principle of operation: Continuous mode
- Country of origin: Slovakia
- Voltage: 380-400V
Homogenizer for the production of whipped cream, ice cream, and much more. It allows you to obtain stable liquid emulsions of food mixtures.
- The homogenizer can be installed directly into the container with the product
- High productivity - in just 8 minutes, it is possible to whip up to 60 liters of milk mixture
- The peripheral speed of the knives is 16 m/s
- Engine power, kW: 0,37/ 2,2
- Voltage: 380-400V
