Process and device for producing granulated products

Abstract

The process comprises forming drops of a liquid to be configured, introducing said drops into a configurator liquid at high temperature in order to produce the coagulation of the drops and to obtain granules; to this effect, the jet of configuration liquid is subjected to the action of periodical pulses which are symmetrical to the axis of the effluent jet of configuration liquid thereby obtaining a controlled disintegration of the liquid into drops. The device for implementing such process includes a pulse chamber (2) with an elastic membrane (4) which produces pressure pulses to the liquid thereby disintegrating the liquid into drops (10) which fall into a receiver (12) and which, together with a configuration liquid flow, are introduced into a column (13) containing the configuration liquid at high temperature. The process and device enable to obtain granulated products such as caviar-like product, granulated meat products, chemical, pharmaceuticals and the like.

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