Method and a system for producing a UHT milk product by direct UHT heating
AssigneeTetra Laval Holdings & Finance S.A.
InventorBozena Malmgren
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Abstract
A system and a corresponding method for producing a UHT milk product by direct UHT heating. The method comprises feeding milk into a heating device, heating the milk by the heating device to increase a temperature of the milk to a first temperature within a range of 135 to 137° C., maintaining the milk inside the heating device at the first temperature for a first time within a range of 30 to 120 sec, feeding the heated milk into a homogenizing device, and homogenizing the heated milk by the homogenizing device, thereby producing the UHT milk product.
Claims8
A method for producing a UHT milk product by direct UHT heating, the method comprising the following steps performed in sequential order:
- feeding milk into a heating device,
- heating the milk by the heating device to increase a temperature of the milk to a first temperature within a range of 135 to 137° C.,
- maintaining the milk inside the heating device at the first temperature for a first time within a range of 30 to 120 sec,
- feeding the heated milk into a homogenizing device, and
- homogenizing the heated milk by the homogenizing device, thereby producing the UHT milk product.
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