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US 2019/0107324 A1Published application
Process and facility for cooling the neck of bottles using a solid heat-transfer medium
AssigneeL'Air Liquide, Societe Anonyme pour I'Etude et I'Exploitation des Procedes Georges Claude
InventorsFranck Cousin, Helene Gensse
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Abstract
The invention relates to a process for cooling the neck of bottles, wherein the neck of the bottle, positioned in the inverted position, is submerged in a mass of a solid heat-transfer medium, for example copper shot, which mass is cooled using a cryogenic fluid, for example liquid nitrogen, or else liquid CO2 or else a mixture of such fluids.
Claims5
A process for cooling a neck of a bottle, comprising the steps of:
- cooling a mass of a solid heat-transfer medium comprising metal shavings with a cryogenic fluid;
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- submerged the neck of the bottle, while positioned in an inverted position, in the cooled mass.
A facility for cooling the neck of bottles, which comprises:
- a reserve of a solid heat-transfer medium consisting of metal shavings, for example copper shot, contained in a tank;
- a store of cryogenic fluid, for example liquid nitrogen or liquid CO2;
- a fluid distribution line, connected at the upstream part thereof to said store, and at the downstream part thereof to said tank, which line is equipped with a control valve;
- a regulator capable of retroacting on said control valve on the basis of a measurement of the temperature of the solid medium present in the tank,
- means making it possible to transport the bottles, positioned in the inverted position, in order to bring the neck of each bottle to be cooled within the solid heat-transfer medium which has been cooled using said cryogenic fluid.
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