CHILLING EQUIPMENT
Chilling equipment for preserving product quality through efficient cooling
Chilling equipment stands as a cornerstone of modern food processing, ensuring the preservation of product quality, safety, and shelf life. In this comprehensive guide, we explore the significance of chilling equipment, its operational mechanisms, diverse applications, and the advantages it brings to the food industry.
The role of chillers and cooling systems
Chilling equipment plays a pivotal role in halting the growth of harmful microorganisms and enzymatic reactions that can compromise the quality and safety of food products. By rapidly lowering the temperature of perishable items, chilling equipment effectively slows down spoilage, extending the shelf life, and enhancing the overall freshness of products.
Operational principles
Chilling equipment employs various cooling methods, including forced-air cooling, water chilling, and cryogenic cooling. These mechanisms efficiently remove heat from food products, maintaining their temperature within safe limits and preventing the proliferation of bacteria. Proper temperature control during storage and transportation helps preserve the sensory characteristics, nutritional value, and appearance of the products.
Applications across industries
Chilling equipment finds versatile applications in multiple sectors of the food industry:
- Meat and Poultry: Rapid cooling of freshly processed meat to prevent bacterial growth and maintain quality.
- Dairy: Quick chilling of milk and dairy products to inhibit microbial activity and prolong shelf life.
- Bakery and Confectionery: Cooling baked goods to prevent moisture retention and ensure product integrity.
- Fruits and Vegetables: Preserving freshness and nutritional content through precise temperature control.
- Seafood: Rapid cooling of seafood to maintain texture and prevent degradation.
- Cooked & Fried Foods: Immediate cooling, allowing products to quickly undergo further processing or packaging, enhancing overall manufacturing efficiency.
Advantages of chilling systems
- Food Safety: Chilling inhibits bacterial growth, reducing the risk of foodborne illnesses.
- Extended Shelf Life: Lowering the temperature slows down spoilage, extending the product's shelf life.
- Quality Preservation: Precise temperature control helps maintain texture, flavor, and appearance.
- Energy Efficiency: Modern chilling equipment incorporates energy-efficient technologies, reducing operational costs.
- Enhanced Efficiency: Rapid cooling enables immediate further processing or packaging, streamlining production.
Strategic integration for quality assurance
FoodTechProcess, a leading provider of food processing equipment, offers an array of advanced chilling equipment designed to meet the demands of modern food industries. Our solutions are tailored for efficiency, reliability, and precision, ensuring that your products reach consumers in optimal condition, delivering superior taste and nutritional value.
The modular cooling conveyor is produced as a standard tabletop version with a section length of 1000 mm; in addition to it, you can order a stainless table or a frame supporting structure. The air cooling conveyor can be sectionally increased in length by the required number of sections.
- Compact, easy to install on any work surface
- Features a fine-grained stainless steel mesh for high temperatures and small-sized products
- Easily combined in line with a tabletop fryer 400/1100/12
- Easy maintenance and cleaning
- Material: Stainless steel
- Principle of operation: Continuous mode
- Working Area Width: 400 mm
The vacuum crystallizer-cooler is specifically designed for sweetened condensed milk. Crystallization with cooling is one of the most important stages in the production of condensed milk according to GOST and is necessary before dosing and packing the finished product.
- After crystallization, condensed milk has a delicate structure with small crystals
- Condensed milk has a homogeneous shape and attractive consumer properties
- The shelf life of condensed milk is extended without changing the quality of the product
- Material: Stainless steel
- Principle of operation: Batch mode
- Country of origin: Slovakia
- Volume: 100l/ 300l
- Voltage: 380-400V
- Max vacuum: -0,8 Bar
The vacuum bread cooler is well-suited for application in small bakeries or as a laboratory unit in industrial enterprises. This enables the post-baking of bread under vacuum conditions, influencing both its shape and structure.
- Built-in deep vacuum system
- Built-in vapor removal and condensation system
- Built-in refrigeration system
- The chamber is designed for 3 gastro containers size GN 1/1, or pallets: 400x600/530x325 mm
- Compact and mobile installation
- Material: Stainless steel
- Principle of operation: Batch mode
- Country of origin: Slovakia
- Volume: 130l
- Voltage: 380-400V
Fixed cooling unit wit different capacities from 67 kW up to 226 kW. Unit are solid and ensure long-life base operation.
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The vacuum diffusion cooling unit is a multifunctional device not only for vegan processors.
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Lowering the temperature and humidity protects the product even without chemical treatment. The device is also used for continuous air cooling after heat treatment.
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This air cooler and heater is multifunctional. It can be used as air cooler, heater. The compact and lightweight air cooler / heater contains. 4 caster wheels make it easy to move the unit.
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ACM mixing tank is intended for efficient cooling, heating, tempering and storing of mayonnaise, sour cream, chocolate, oil and similar products after their production.
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The cooling tank is designed for storing milk and other beverages.
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The new line of TCAEY compact cooling units is suitable as a cooling source for industrial applications. It's a reliable chilling device for cooling different kinds of liquids.Â
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The AS series chillers belong to the top professional cooling devices for quick beverages' chilling in restaurants, cafes, catering industry facilities, and pubs. The chiller is suitable for cooling water, spark or soft drinks, beer, wine, strong alcohol drinks, and others.
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The new line of NDJ refrigeration units is suitable as a cooling source for industrial applications operating with a closed coolant circuit. Efficient and reliable flow cooling of liquids
A chiller is a cooling machine that removes heat from a liquid through vapor compression and absorption in a cyclic manner.
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An air cooling conveyor is used to rapidly cool products in food processing industries by circulating cool air over them as they move along a conveyor belt. This efficient cooling process helps preserve product quality and reduce the time between processing stages, facilitating smoother production workflows.
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The KWS mixing vessel is engineered for versatile operations, including heating, cooling, and mixing of liquid products, with a maximum temperature capability of 60 °C.
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The NWT PLUS chillers have a compact design. They take little space and are very easy to install and to start. The units are mobile on wheels. We offer different capacities.
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The water chiller CHWHE consists of a cooling unit in the upper part and a pump plus isolated water tank (made of stainless steel) in the lower section. We offer different capacities.
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The cooling units have a compact design. They are space-saving and easy to assemble. The chiller in standard version can work at water outlet temperatures from +10°C to +25°C.
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Cooling tunnel with a length of 15.2 meters. The standard design consists of 13 sections with removable top. For more information, send us a request.
Milk cooler tank designed for cooling milk and other dairy products. The tank is available in 13 different capacities, covering a range from 50 liters all the way up to 2,500 liters, capable of meeting the needs of all dairy & cheese production facilities. We offer 2 or 4 milking options. Prices are displayed for the milk cooling tank with 4 milking.
- Material: Stainless steel
- Principle of operation: Batch mode
The Milk Cooler has a simple design, which allows for easy and safe operation. it meets the requirements of all dairy production facilities.
The stated price does not include the steam generator
The unique sectional cooking kettle is intended for high-performance cooking/blanching/frying of a wide range of products with subsequent cooling to avoid damaging their structure. An essential part of this technology is the efficient cooling section, necessary for halting the cooking process after unloading. This function is also necessary when processing vegetables to the "aldente" state, when vegetables retain their structure and natural color after thermal treatment. This model provides heating by direct injection of purified steam into the heating section (steam generator - option).
- Suitable for cooking small-sized products
- Fast and intense heating due to direct steam injection
- Intensive hydro-stirring
- Automatic basket lifting system
- Material: Stainless steel
- Country of origin: Slovakia
- Volume: 2x250l/ 3x250l
- Voltage: 380-400V
- Working volume: 2x175l/ 3x175l
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
It is intended for pre-cooling after cooking or frying vegetables and fruit, meat, fish and seafood and other products.
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CAC Air cooling conveyors are designed for intensive cooling and removal of excess water or oil (air knife section) from products after frying, cooking or blanching.
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Air cooling conveyor with MULTI AIR KNIFE is a system for intensive removing excess water or oil and preliminary cooling.Â
An air cooling conveyor is a system that uses moving belts and airflow to cool down products as they are transported along the conveyor line.
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