Processing liquid food
AssigneeTetra Laval Holdings & Finance S.A.
InventorsGöran PANTZAR, Ulrika LINNE, Niclas WIKLUND, Antonio RENDINA
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Abstract
Processing of liquid food (102) in a system (100) is disclosed. The liquid food (102) is provided from a balance tank (104) to a heat treatment unit 106. The heat treating unit (106) receives and heat treats the liquid food (102) to provide heat treated liquid food (102a). A filter (108) receives and filters the heat treated liquid food (102a) to provide filtered, heat treated liquid food (102b). A packaging device (110) receives and packages the filtered heat treated liquid food (102b). Filtering of the liquid food (102) takes place on a heat treated side of the system (100), as close as possible to the packaging device (110).
Claims11
A system for processing liquid food, comprising:
- a balance tank configured to provide the liquid food,
- a heat treatment unit configured to receive and heat treat the liquid food to provide heat treated liquid food,
- a filter configured to receive and filter the heat treated liquid food to provide filtered, heat treated liquid food, and
- a packaging device configured to receive and package the filtered heat treated liquid food.
A method for processing liquid food, comprising:
- providing the liquid food from a balance tank to a heat treating unit,
- heat treating the liquid food to provide heat treated liquid food to a filter,
- filtering the heat treated liquid food to provide filtered heat treated liquid food to a packaging device, and
- packaging the filtered heat treated liquid food.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.