Heat-exchange sterilization pot

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Heat Exchange Sterilization Pot Product Introduction

The heat-exchange sterilization pot employs an indirect heat-exchange core process, combined with precise temperature and pressure control technology, to provide a stable and gentle sterilization solution for the food and beverage industry. It is widely compatible with various bottling and canning production lines, helping enterprises standardize their production processes, ensure consistent product quality, and meet hygiene requirements for food production.

The equipment centers on highly efficient heat-exchange technology, which achieves separate isolation of the heat source from the process water. This ensures stable sterilization performance while effectively protecting both the product packaging and its contents. It strikes a balance between production efficiency and product quality, and is well-suited for the mass production and standardization of various product categories and specifications. It is a practical piece of equipment for food and beverage companies seeking to scale up and standardize their production processes.

Core Product Advantages

1. Indirect heat exchange, clean and hygienic

Indirect heating and cooling are achieved using plate or tubular heat exchangers, ensuring that the heat source does not come into direct contact with the product or process water. This effectively prevents water contamination and equipment scaling, maintains the cleanliness of the process water, and reduces the frequency of equipment maintenance, thereby complying with food production hygiene standards.

2. Gently control the temperature to protect both the product and its packaging.

Supports gradient heating and gradient cooling adjustments, coupled with closed-loop pressure-following control. Parameters can be flexibly adjusted according to product characteristics and packaging materials, effectively reducing the risk of deformation and damage to bottle and can bodies while better preserving the product’s original flavor and nutritional content. This approach strikes a balance between sterilization effectiveness and product texture.

3. Excellent thermal performance, energy-saving and consumption-reducing

The heat exchange efficiency is outstanding, with rapid response to both heating and cooling, enabling shorter sterilization cycles per batch and boosting production capacity per unit time. The preheating water can be recycled and reused, reducing steam and cooling water consumption. Over the long term, this helps enterprises optimize energy costs and achieve efficient, energy-saving production.

4. Precise and controllable, with stable bactericidal efficacy.

Equipped with a precise temperature and pressure control system, this device continuously monitors the temperature and pressure changes inside the pot in real time, automatically adjusting feedback to ensure a uniform temperature distribution throughout the pot. This reduces sterilization dead zones, guarantees consistent sterilization results across batches, enhances product shelf-life stability, and helps ensure compliance with food safety standards.

5. Smart and convenient, reducing operational costs.

Equipped with a PLC control system and a touch-screen operation interface, this device supports the storage of multiple sets of sterilization process parameters and can automatically complete the entire process—from preheating and sterilization to pressure maintenance and cooling—thereby reducing manual intervention and lowering operational complexity. At the same time, it allows operators to monitor the equipment’s operating status in real time, promptly identify and troubleshoot any abnormalities, and ensure continuous production.

6. Safe and reliable, with strong compatibility

Equipped with multiple safety protection mechanisms—including a pressure safety valve, overtemperature protection, door interlock protection, and water shortage protection—this equipment effectively mitigates safety risks during operation, ensuring both the personal safety of operators and the stable performance of the equipment. It can be customized to meet specific production needs, featuring single-layer/single-pot or double-layer/dual-tank parallel configurations, and can be integrated with automated feeding and discharging systems, making it highly adaptable to various production scenarios.

Scope of application

This product is widely used in the food and beverage industry for various products that require thermal sterilization, and it is compatible with multiple packaging types and production scenarios, as detailed below:

Packaging types: PE bottles, HDPE bottles, PP bottles, PET bottles, metal cans, glass bottles, and other high-temperature-resistant packaging options.

Suitable product categories: Fruit juices, plant-based protein beverages, tea drinks, dairy products, condiment sauces, canned goods, ready-to-drink beverages, soybean products, and more.

Production scenarios: small- and medium-sized batch production, multi-variety mixed-model production, and standardized continuous production lines—capable of meeting enterprises’ diversified production needs.

Structural and Performance Characteristics

1. Material Compliance: The main body is made of food-grade stainless steel, featuring a rounded internal wall transition design that eliminates sanitary dead spots, making it easy to clean and disinfect. It is corrosion-resistant, high-temperature resistant, and不易 deforms, thereby extending the service life of the equipment.

2. Heat exchange structure: Plate- or tube-type heat exchanger design with high heat transfer efficiency; the heat source is isolated from the process water, ensuring cleanliness and zero contamination, thereby reducing scaling and maintenance costs.

3. Temperature Control Accuracy: A precise temperature and pressure control system with accurate adjustment of both temperature and pressure, featuring a gradient heating and cooling design to meet the sterilization requirements of various products and packaging.

4. Flexible process: Supports switching between multiple sterilization processes and allows customization of dedicated sterilization parameters, making it suitable for producing a wide variety of product categories and specifications.

5. Easy Maintenance: Key components are equipped with standardized parts, and the structural layout is rational, making maintenance and replacement convenient, thereby reducing equipment downtime and ensuring continuous production.

Application value

Thanks to its core features of cleanliness, stability, energy efficiency, and convenience, the thermal exchange sterilization pot provides food and beverage companies with sterilization solutions that precisely meet their actual production needs. Its application value is primarily reflected in:

1. Ensuring product safety: Through precise and uniform sterilization, harmful microorganisms in products are effectively eliminated, helping companies achieve compliant production and enhancing product market acceptance.

2. Enhancing product competitiveness: The mild sterilization method preserves the product’s flavor and nutrients, reduces package damage, lowers the rate of production defects, and improves product quality stability.

3. Optimize production efficiency: Automated operations reduce labor costs, energy-efficient designs lower long-term operating costs, and flexible adaptability meets the diverse and large-scale production needs of enterprises.

4. Reduce operational pressure: The equipment operates reliably and is easy to maintain, minimizing downtime losses and helping enterprises enhance the standardization of production management, thereby steadily improving production efficiency.

Leveraging our mature production processes, rigorous quality control, and professional technical support, we have developed heat-exchange sterilization kettles tailored specifically for the food and beverage industry. We offer customized equipment and process solutions based on each enterprise’s actual production needs, helping companies achieve efficient, standardized, and energy-saving production and strengthening their market competitiveness.

Product Parameters

Project	Unit	1000#	1200#	1200#	1200#	1300#	1300#
The length of the cylinder	Millimeter	2400	2400	3200	4000	3600	4500
Total length	Millimeter	3900	4400	5200	6000	8800	6700
Total width	Millimeter	1400	1600	3500	1600	1800	1800
Total height	Millimeter	3200	3500	3500	3500	3800	3800
Capacity	m3	2.2	3.2	4	4.9	5.3	6.5
Food basket	One	3	3	4	5	4	5
Air consumption	Kg/batch	115	180	230	280	300	370
Device power	kilowatt	8	14	14	14	21.5	21.5
Power consumption	KW/h	5	8	8	8	8	8
Set temperature	1 45°
Test pressure	0.44 megapascals
Design pressure	0.35 megapascals