Benefits
Tetra Pak® Continuous Sugar Dissolver continuously dissolves crystalline sugar in water up to a concentration of 65° Brix. The hydraulic conveying solution minimises your investment and operational costs and lets you place your Tetra Pak Continuous Sugar Dissolver more flexibly in your plant layout. On top of that, our patented injector and radial jet mixer technology enable lower dissolving temperatures, reducing energy consumption and costs by 25%. You get guaranteed Brix accuracy for exact dosing while securing long-term sustainability.
Capacity:
Output capacities of 7000, 15 000 and 25 000 litres per hour.
Typical applications:
For use in the production of:
- Still drinks
- Carbonated soft drinks
- Ketchup
- Jam
- Confectionary products
- Formulated dairy products
- And more
Smart, flexible solution with hydraulic conveying
• Minimize investment and operational costs with smart hydraulic sugar conveying solution
• Flexibly place your Tetra Pak® Continuous Sugar Dissolver for more flexible plant layout
• Reduce energy consumption and cost by 25% with lower dissolving temperature
• Get guaranteed °Brix accuracy for exact dosing
Features
Injector technology
Immediate wetting at point of entry
Our patented injector enables hydraulic conveying, but it also reduces energy consumption overall. Due to the immediate wetting of sugar and the high turbulence as soon as the sugar touches the water stream. The unique design allows us to create a vacuum due to the Venturi effect, so sugar is sucked into the mixer at the point of entry. When sugar is poured into the top of a tank, undissolved sugar can sink to the bottom and lead to clogging over time. Our innovative injector and radial jet mixer technology avoid clogging and enable fast in-feed of sugar.
Radial jet mixer technology
Minimises energy consumption
Once the sugar has passed the injection point, it is conveyed hydraulically to the radial jet mixer nozzle, which provides enough turbulence for agitation inside the tank to keep the sugar crystals in abeyance and dissolve them efficiently. This avoids the disadvantages of a mechanical agitator, which increases air incorporation to create foaming. This allows us to lower the dissolving temperature and, thus, the energy consumption. Particles do not sink and collect at the bottom because of the turbulence created by the nozzle. It’s also reassuring to know that the nozzle does not create high shear. This helps to preserve product quality.
Flexible integration and placement
Hydraulic conveying enables flexibility in layout
Hydraulic conveying lets you locate sugar feeding points independently from where your dissolver is located. This lets you handle several types of feeding equipment. It’s equally easy to take sugar in directly from a silo, Big Bag discharge station such as Tetra Pak® Big Bag Liquefier and Tetra Pak® Big Bag Discharger or even a feeding hopper.
On top of that, you can choose to include more than one feeding point in an iterative process into the recirculation line. Since you can place the Tetra Pak® Continuous Sugar Dissolver in an independent area, you no longer need to worry about ATEX requirements for the dissolving unit itself, thus saving you from having to make additional investments.
Advanced °Brix set point control
Maintains a constant °Brix level – saves energy and raw materials
Since this unit constantly measures the sugar concentration directly inline, you always have full control of the water to sugar ratio. Rather than overdosing and diluting at a later stage, this solution maintains the optimal temperature for the exact amount of sugar you need to dissolve – thereby saving energy and raw materials. Since the process is continuous and eliminates the need for manual sampling, it also saves on operator time.
Automatic filling in destination tank
Ease of use
Automatic filling makes the Tetra Pak® Continuous Sugar Dissolver very easy to operate. When the sugar solution is at the right °Brix, the flow is automatically diverted to the destination tank. When the destination tank is full, the Tetra Pak® Continuous Sugar Dissolver stops. As the sugar solution is pumped away for use in production, the level drops and an operator can start up the Tetra Pak® Continuous Sugar Dissolver again. Alternatively, it can be controlled automatically.
