Food processing equipment with plasma activated water cleaning
AssigneeGea Food Solutions Bakel B.V.
InventorJoost Van Erp
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Abstract
A method for cleaning, sanitizing, disinfecting and/or sterilizing a filter and/or one or more needles of a food injector device with a cleaning device, the method includes: supplying water and electric current to the cleaning device; treating the filter and/or the one or more needles of the food injector device with the plasma activated water; the cleaning device includes either: i) an atmospheric-pressure plasma device to produce the plasma activated water or ii) a device coupled to the cleaning device for preparing the plasma activated water; and before the treating step, the method includes a pre-treatment step, where the filter and/or the one or more needles of the food injector device are cleaned and/or rinsed with a fluid other than the plasma activated water.
Claims5
A method for cleaning, sanitizing, disinfecting, and/or sterilizing a filter and/or one or more needles of a food injector device with a cleaning device, the method comprising steps of:
- supplying water and electric current to the cleaning device;
- cleaning, sanitizing, disinfecting, and/or sterilizing the filter and/or the one or more needles of the food injector device by treating the filter and/or the one or more needles of the food injector device with plasma activated water;
- wherein the cleaning device comprises either:
- i) an atmospheric-pressure plasma device to produce the plasma activated water or ii) a device coupled to the cleaning device for preparing the plasma activated water;
- wherein before the treating step, the method comprises a pre-treatment step, where the filter and/or the one or more needles of the food injector device are cleaned and/or rinsed with a fluid other than the plasma activated water.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.