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US 11,503,953 B2Granted
Apparatus and method for heating frying oil with solid-state RF energy technology
AssigneeGea Food Solutions Bakel B.V.
InventorJoost Van Erp
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a processing apparatus, in which a flying oil is heated, disinfected and/or pasteurized, sterilized. The present invention further relates to a method to treat a flying oil with radio-frequency wave.
Claims17
Processing apparatus, in which a product is transported by a means to transport the product and is fried in a frying oil chamber containing frying oil,
- wherein the frying oil is pumped by a pump in a flow direction through a microwave chamber and is thereby heated,
- wherein the microwave chamber is provided as a tube, the microwave chamber comprises at least one solid-state radio frequency source,
- wherein the frying oil is configured to flow out of the frying oil chamber towards the microwave chamber where the frying oil is heated, and then the heated frying oil is configured to flow back into the frying oil chamber,
- wherein the flow direction of the frying oil in the frying oil chamber is the same as a flow direction of the product that is transported by the means to transport the product,
- wherein the processing apparatus comprises a filter in the tube of the microwave chamber, and
- wherein the pump is controlled by a control system based on energy provided by the at least one solid-state radio frequency source.
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