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Research
Laboratories
Pilot Food Processing Laboratory
The pilot food processing facility covers fruit juice processing including pasteurization, filtration and bottle filling to allow batch processing of up to 5 litres of fruit juice. It is also equipped with a soft serve maker and hard ice cream processing facility that includes bath pasteurizer, homogenizer, scraped surface heat exchanger and blast freezer. Spray drying and supercritical CO extraction are also available in this facility.
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Pasteurizer
Pilot food processing facility comprises a selfcontained miniature scale HTST( high temperature short time) unit / pasteurizer( Model: BP159-A, Brand: SOLTEQ) that is made up of plates and tubular heat exchanger to accommodate up to 5 liter of sample. Products that can be pasteurised include raw milk, fruit juices, nectar and cream. The unit comes with a mobile unit for cleaning the pasteurizer.
Digital Filler High Pressure Homogenizer
Juice Filtration Unit
The Digital Filler( Model: FD18) is able to be operated manually or set to automatic filling mode on liquid products or beverages.
The high pressure Panda PLUS homogenizer is a tabletop unit that allows micronization or homogenization of liquid products.
The Juice Filtration Unit( Model: FD16) provides a fast and efficient filtration process for removal of solid particles, such as pulp and seeds, from raw fruit juices via membrane filters.
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