HOMOGENIZERS
Homogenizers: Achieving Uniformity and Quality in Food Processing
Homogenizers are crucial in the realm of food processing, responsible for the creation of consistent, homogenous textures and flavors across a variety of products. These sophisticated processing machines play a pivotal role in breaking down particles, achieving emulsification, dispersion, and ensuring uniformity in various mixtures. In this comprehensive guide, we dive into the world of homogenizers, exploring their principles, types, and significant contributions to the food processing industry.
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 vital for achieving desired textures and preventing ingredient separation. Whether it's dairy products, sauces, or beverages, homogenizers play a crucial role in enhancing product consistency and quality.
Operating Principles of Homogenizers
Homogenizers utilize mechanical force to achieve particle reduction and uniform mixing. The process involves forcing the mixture through a narrow gap or valve, resulting in high shear forces that break down particles and ensure thorough mixing. Homogenization not only improves product texture but also enhances shelf life by preventing cream separation and improving stability.
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: Consisting primarily of a motor with a rotor and a stator encased in a cover, these homogenizers ensure continuous processing.
- Working Batch Units: These homogenizers come with a working unit and an inbuilt homogenizer, ideal for processing in batches.
Applications in the Food Industry
Homogenizers find extensive application across various food products:
- Dairy Products: Homogenization prevents cream separation in milk and enhances texture and consistency in yogurt, cheese, and ice cream.
- Beverages: From fruit juices to smoothies, homogenizers ensure uniform distribution of flavors and ingredients.
- Sauces and Dressings: Achieving consistent emulsification enhances the appearance and taste of sauces, dressings, and condiments.
- Pharmaceuticals: Homogenization is crucial in pharmaceutical production, ensuring even distribution of active ingredients in liquid medications.
- Fruit and Vegetable Mixes: Homogenizers contribute to the creation of well-blended and uniform fruit and vegetable mixes, 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 flavor distribution throughout the product.
- Microbial Control: The high shear forces involved in homogenization contribute to reduced microbial contamination.
FoodTechProcess: Homogenizers for Enhanced Product Quality
FoodTechProcess offers an array of advanced homogenizers tailored to the specific needs of the food industry. Our homogenization solutions ensure precise particle reduction, efficient emulsification, and uniform mixing. With a focus on elevating product quality and consistency, our homogenizers empower food producers to meet consumer demands for premium products.
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
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
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
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.
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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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 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 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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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
By employing a synergistic blend of shear, impact, collision, and cavitation, the homogenizing mixer efficiently blends, disperses and disintegrates materials suspended within a medium.
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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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Universal boiler with an integrated homogenizer 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 for the basic version of the installation without a steam generator
The Veggie Milk 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
- Capacity: 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 batch load 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.Â
The price depends on the options you choose.Â
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
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 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
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
