IN THIS ISSUE: Fan Fixes • Chilled and Heated Rolls • Keeping SCRs Cool • Burner Mat • Water Control for Boilers, Heat Exchangers • Conveyorized Frying • and more
Conveyorized Frying Solutions Handle Breaded, High Water-Content Foods Processors of fried products may be interested in Chicago-based
FMC FoodTech
’s specialized frying solutions. For processors of breaded and battered foods, the company offers TFF Series fryers with ThermoFin technology. The vertical fins, which are mounted inside the fryer tank and use thermal fluid to heat the oil, create a uniform heat compared to competitive tubular direct-fired heating technologies, says FMC FoodTech. Used in tandem with the company’s filters, the fryers allow the oil to be used for as long as 20 hr without developing significant free fatty acids.
With breaded products, the goal of frying is to maintain the product moisture while adding color, taste and heat treatment. The fryers are designed for coated products such as chicken, calamari, egg rolls and onion rings. The ThermoFin heat exchanger is designed with electro-polished fins that prevent sediment from sticking. The gentle heat-transfer is suitable for
less stable oils like the healthier non trans fat oils. This design, coupled with a reduced heat exchanger height, keeps the build-up of free fatty acids to a minimum, which if left to accumulate can hasten deterioration, requiring the oil to be thrown out.
Other fried products such as potato chips require higher heat. For example, potatoes are 80 percent water, most of which needs to be evaporated to make chips or French fries. Accomplishing this task requires three to four times the heat of a breaded-product fryer. For these applications, the company offers a multi-flow frying system that uses an indirect external heating system. Heated by thermal oil in a tube heat exchanger, the oil then enters the fryer at several inlet points and leaves at multiple outlet points. Vegetable oil is injected from the bottom and sides of the pan, using the oil’s turbulence to separate the potato slices as they come in. The system
also may be used to create a temperature profile that emulates the cooking process and final product of kettle-style chips, using an inline process instead of batch frying.
NEWS BRIEF Santa Clara, Calif.-based
LumaSense Technologies Inc., a provider of sensing solutions, acquired Mikron Infrared, a manufacturer of infrared noncontact temperature measurement and thermal imaging equipment.
Mikron Infrared, Oakland, N.J., is the fourth acquisition LumaSense has made since 2005.
Sludge to Water, Sludge to Sludge Komax™ patented Klean-Wall Sludge heat exchangers
are used in municipal digester heating, livestock rendering heat reclaim, animal waste, digester heating, methane recovery operations and numerous other indirect heating applications where clogging is not an option. • High Efficiency • Non-Clogging, Non-Fouling
Fan Fixes Is your fan experiencing excessive noise, vibration, overheated bearings or poor air performance? This guide to common questions and answers may help you solve your problem.
A Checklist for Specifying Rolls Understanding these 10 most critical roller specifications will assist the converter in matching optimum roller performance to system fit and function.
How to Select a Tank Heater Tank heating may be required to maintain pumping viscosity of heavy oil or resins, to prevent crystalline precipitation (sodium hydroxide), to facilitate production processes, for freeze protection, and hundreds of other applications. Here's a look at the methods of tank heating.
Keeping SCR Controls Cool The life expectancy of an SCR control depends on the manufacturer's design and the user's installation. A few precautions can ensure that your SCRs operate reliably.
Boiler, Heat Exchanger Optimization Water treatment services help manufacturers in the process industries maintain production efficiency and quality regardless of the product or process. Services available for the chemical processing market includes boiler, cooling and wastewater efficiency, heat exchange efficiency calculation; environmental compliance; slag modification; combustion catalyst and slag modification; analytical troubleshooting; water reuse studies and implementation; corrosion studies; waste treatment optimization and design; waste treatment jar studies; fuel oil treatment programs; and Legionella risk assessment.
Burner Combustion Mat G-mat is made of FeCrAlM alloy fiber and has mechanical strength and light weight. It is designed for blue flame burner applications and is suited to retrofit existing perforate sheet metal burner for reduction of combustion emission, improving the flame stability/uniformity, and increasing burner life and reliability. The fiber is light transparent, which induces a tiny pressure drop of 0.2 to 0.5" w.c. under normal combustion range. Nominal thickness of the mat is 0.035", allowing it to form into contours and curvatures. Standard G-mat sheet dimensions are 16 x 36" with non-trimmed edges.
Packaged Thermal Oxidizers Line of skid-mounted oxidizers covers a range of 5,000 scfm, 10,000 scfm, 20,000 scfm and 30,000 scfm. Features include a preassembled, modular design that reduces installation time, 98 percent destruction efficiency; and 95 percent heat exchanger efficiency. The regenerative thermal oxidizer also includes touch-screen controls, a modem for remote monitoring and troubleshooting, and hydraulic actuation.
Pressure Reducer System Pillarless construction and diameter-independent spring ranges are features of Predu. Additional features of the pressure reducer system include a screwed seat and a marginal seat, three exchangeable spring sizes, a balancing bellow and a sealing bellow, and easy change of spring and actuator.
High Temperature, Hot Water Process Boiler Line of medium and high temperature hot water boilers provide temperatures up to 400°F (204°C) and 300 psi using water as a heat medium. Some of the advantages of this system include improved fuel efficiencies over other heat methods; ability to use a less expensive heat transfer mediums (water); improved overall heat transfer coefficient compared to other fluids. Company also manufactures 650°F (343°C) thermal fluid heaters for the process industries.
Fluid Control Products More than 3,000 models from let you control fluid in any application. Choose from water, hot water and steam valves; combustion shutoff valves; vent valves; manual rest and manual override options; air and gas valves; magnetic level switches and more.
With breaded products, the goal of frying is to maintain the product moisture while adding color, taste and heat treatment. The fryers are designed for coated products such as chicken, calamari, egg rolls and onion rings. The ThermoFin heat exchanger is designed with electro-polished fins that prevent sediment from sticking. The gentle heat-transfer is suitable for
less stable oils like the healthier non trans fat oils. This design, coupled with a reduced heat exchanger height, keeps the build-up of free fatty acids to a minimum, which if left to accumulate can hasten deterioration, requiring the oil to be thrown out.
Santa Clara, Calif.-based
Sludge to Water, Sludge to Sludge
A Checklist for Specifying Rolls
Burner Combustion Mat
Pressure Reducer System
