Cooling crystallizer and sugar crystallization method
AssigneeBma Braunschweigische Maschinenbauanstalt AG
InventorsAndreas Lehnberger, Jörg Schmidt, Folker Aljets
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Abstract
The invention relates to a cooling crystallizer (2.0) for saccharose magma in a vertically oriented container (2.1) which has an upper inlet (2.2) for supplying magma and a lower outlet (2.3) for discharging magma, comprising multiple cooling blocks (5.0) which are mutually spaced in a vertical direction. A heat carrier fluid flows through the cooling blocks (5.0), and the cooling blocks are coupled to a heat exchanger in order to dissipate heat from the magma, wherein multiple cooling blocks (5.0) are combined to form a cooling packet (5.1; 5.2), and the cooling packets (5.1; 5.2) are designed as separate cooling circuits with separate heat exchangers (2.1.2; 2.2.2).
Claims15
A cooling crystallizer for sucrose magma in a vertically oriented container, which has an inlet at a top of the vertically oriented container for feeding in the sucrose magma and an outlet at a bottom of the vertically oriented container for discharging the sucrose magma, comprising:
- a plurality of cooling blocks which are vertically spaced apart from one another, wherein each of the cooling blocks of the plurality of cooling blocks is configured for a heat transfer fluid to flow therethrough,
- a plurality of heat exchangers, wherein at least some of the plurality of heat exchangers are coupled to at least some of the plurality of cooling blocks in order to dissipate heat from the sucrose magma,
- wherein a plurality of cooling packs are formed from cooling blocks of the plurality of cooling blocks being combined together, wherein each of the cooling packs of the plurality of cooling packs are configured as separate cooling circuits with separate heat exchangers of the plurality of heat exchangers.
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