Process for continuously drying and stabilizing pasta and the like, and apparatus for implementing the process
AssigneePavan Mapimpianti S.p.A.
InventorsPier L. Conselvan, Gastone Didone'
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Abstract
A process for continuously drying and stabilizing pasta and the like in which the product to be treated is subjected to a succession of cycles each including of an intense drying stage and a stabilizing stage for cooling in which the air temperature exceeds the dew point, characterized in that during the stabilizing phase the pasta is ventilated, whereby the ventilated air is indirectly heated or cooled by a conditioning fluid to create and maintain in the chamber the temperature and humidity required to the particular stabilization treatment.
Claims7
A process for continuously drying and stabilizing a pasta product comprising subjecting said pasta product to a plurality of cycles, each comprising an intense drying stage in which said product reaches a prefixed value of temperature and humidity and a stabilizing stage for cooling said product in which the air temperature exceeds the dew point and said product is kept at the same value of humidity of said previous intense drying stage, wherein said pasta product is ventilated during said stabilizing phase and whereby ventilated air is indirectly treated by a conditioning fluid to create and maintain a temperature and humidity required for a particular stabilization treatment.
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