US 2019/0159485 A1 · PASTEURIZING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR OPERATING A PASTEURIZING DEVICE

Abstract

A method operates a pasteurizing device and a pasteurizing device pasteurizes foodstuff in sealed containers. The pasteurizing device includes a treatment area configured for temperature treatment of the foodstuff in the containers with at least one heating zone, a conveying system for conveying the sealed containers filled with foodstuff through the treatment area and an irrigation device configured for dispensing a temperature-controlled process liquid into the at least one heating zone. The pasteurizing device further includes at least one feed device configured for introducing at least one treatment chemical for container-treatment in gaseous or aerosolized state into the treatment area.

Claims25

Dependent claims

A method for operating a pasteurizing device comprising a first operating condition, wherein

in the first operating condition sealed containers filled with foodstuff are conveyed through a treatment area comprising at least one heating zone,
the foodstuff is heated and pasteurized in the at least one heating zone by dispensing a temperature-controlled process liquid onto the containers,
wherein at least a major part of the process liquid from the treatment area is returned to the treatment area in a closed-loop circuit for reuse,
wherein
based on demand at least one treatment chemical for container-treatment is introduced into the treatment area in a gaseous or aerosolized state by means of a feed device in any operating condition of the pasteurizing device.

2 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Pasteurizing device and method for operating a pasteurizing device

Life of this patent

Pasteurizing device and method for operating a pasteurizing device

Life of this patent

Abstract

Claims25