Falling-film review for liquid food ingredients
Check formulation, rheology and hygiene requirements before selecting a concentration arrangement.
Define the formulation boundary
List the major dissolved and suspended components and any additions made before concentration. A material balance based on one unchanged solids stream is not valid if ingredients are added or fractions are removed within the system.
Check the limiting outlet condition
Supply concentration-dependent viscosity and temperature sensitivity. Include cold restart and discharge requirements. Highly viscous, crystallising or heavily fouling duties may require another concept or a separate finishing stage.
Coordinate utilities and production schedule
Describe campaign lengths, changeovers, minimum load and available cleaning time. Compare effects and heat recovery on the same duty, not an assumed continuous annual schedule that the site cannot achieve.
Set the evidence required in a proposal
Ask for the mass and heat balance, layout, materials, instrument list and cleaning boundary. Confirm which items are included, supplied by others or still awaiting product tests.
Related equipment
Concentrate transfer package
Move the outlet product without destabilising the separator.
HEAT RECOVERY / TVRThermal vapour recompressor
Use motive steam to recover part of the process vapour heat.
HEAT RECOVERY / MVRMechanical vapour recompressor
Raise recovered vapour pressure using electrical drive.