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Considering the energy requirements to boil off that much water (70tonnes * reduction ratio) and form factor - notably the lack of a tall evaporating column - I
by thereisnospork 4y ago
Considering the energy requirements to boil off that much water (70tonnes * reduction ratio) and form factor - notably the lack of a tall evaporating column - I'd hazard that they are concentrating via reverse osmosis. So the inside probably looks something like:
Pump -> Heat Exchanger [Cold to Hot]
-> heater (sanitize and start cooking the stock)
-> continuously stirred vessel or just a large volume of insulated tube (cook time set by volume of vessel/tubing)
-> the same Heat Exchanger [Hot to Cold]
-> Membrane Separator [probably but not necessarily a bunch of tubes] which splits into Product and effluent [more or less pure water]. This step is also popular in Maple Syrup production to cut down on boiling, which is slow, costly, and can degrade the product due to temperature.
-> Product IBC cube
-> Sewer drain
Plus a bunch of valves and instrumentation for control and monitoring.
- staticautomatic 4y agoIs vacuum distillation a thing in food production?
- thereisnospork 4y agoProbably, can't say I am an expert. For bouillon which presumptively[0] has a very high boiling point due to the high concentration of salts even with vacuum a pot-style distillation would probably[0] be fairly slow. A falling film evaporator would likely work well, but there doesn't appear[0] to be room in the container for one. Going all the way to solid bouillon a spray-dryer would make sense, and would fit. Solids handling is usually a pita though. [0]Sorry for the weasel-words: only my general, not specific, experience applies.