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US 9,101,154 B2Granted
Method and apparatus for treating vegetable tissues in order to extract therefrom a vegetable substance, in particular a juice
AssigneesMaguin SAS, Universite De Technologie De Compiegne
InventorsOlivier Pierre Vidal, Eugene Vorobiev
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Abstract
The apparatus for treating plant tissues using a pulsed electric field is intended for the extraction of plant substances from tissues, in particular a juice. It comprises a step of compacting (3) the plant tissues and at least one treatment chamber (4) comprising means for the generating a pulsed electric field in said chamber for treating the compacted tissues.
Claims7
A method for treating vegetable tissues with a pulsed electric field in order to extract there from a juice, characterized in that:
- the vegetable tissues are compacted in order to reduce the residual space between the vegetable tissues, without exerting a pressure tending to result in juice extraction,
- the compacted tissues are conveyed to at least one treatment chamber (4) without needing to mix the compacted tissues with a liquid phase,
- the compacted tissues are subjected to a pulsed electric field in said at least one treatment chamber (4), and in that, after the treatment of the compacted tissues with a pulsed electric field, a first juice is extracted from the treatment chamber (4).
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