Energy Saving with Optimized Vacuum Solutions for Vacuum Baking and Freeze Drying
Cologne – Oerlikon Leybold Vacuum exhibits food processing vacuum solutions at the CFIA Rennes, France and the ANUGA Foodtec, Germany.
Oerlikon Leybold Vacuum is supplying the Food Processing Industry with advanced vacuum solutions. Apart from applications in Food Packaging, other food applications including Vacuum Baking and Freeze Drying are gaining more and more momentum, now requiring increased focus on fast and energetically effective vacuum solutions that are replacing aging and highmaintenance equipment at older food processing plants.
Beginning in 2015, Oerlikon Leybold Vacuum received a larger order from a Swiss equipment manufacturer. The company is a world leader in food technology and developed various methods of food processing under vacuum, providing substantial improvements in product and process quality. The pump models made by Oerlikon Leybold Vacuum will be implemented in the freeze-drying system of a German supplier who produces twenty tons of instant coffee powder per day.
Modern vacuum pumps with their very compact design, high efficiency and the possibility to use an external frequency converter such as the RUVAC WH series match the requirements of the customer to an extremely high degree. These pumps can be integrated e.g. in current freeze drying system leading to a considerable savings on energy cost. At the same time these pumps delivers a higher pumping speed which will give the customer a much needed upgrade in their production with increased flexibility.
Other food processing manufacturing processes also profit from the advantages of applying modern vacuum technology, as seen in the vacuum conditioning of industrial bread baking. Here, simple physical principles are applied. At atmospheric pressure, water boils at 100°C. Decreasing the atmospheric pressure decreases the boiling point. If the pressure is at 42 mbar, the water already evaporates at 30°C, the energy necessary for baking stems from the still almost warm oven baked product. If the baked goods are subjected to vacuum cooling, this is done in 2 - 6 minutes, with the steady withdrawal of the water content preventing a possible condensation, the so-called gelatinization within the product.
This vacuum-based baking technology offers significant advantages for plant manufacturers, producers, bakers and consumers. While customers can purchase perfectly baked products almost around the clock, manufacturing and distribution channels are saving money, as significant cost reductions are possible in logistics, plant foot-print and in streamlining work economics. Depending on the plant design, cost reductions may reach 50%.
Vacuum technology with modern pump solutions therefore opens up a significant increase in the quality and productivity, and highlights the potential for improvement in terms of production time, infrastructure, human resources, logistics costs, raw materials and energy consumption.
The proven reliability of the variable combinations of oil-sealed SOGEVAC and RUVAC pumps with the modern dry compressing DRYVAC pumps combined with an up-to-date technical concept will ensure optimized process stability.
SOGEVAC FP Range
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Fruit Freeze Drying
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DRYVAC DV 650
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For further information please contact:
Christina Steigler
Oerlikon Leybold Vacuum
Head of Corporate Communications PR
T: +49 221 347 1261
F : +49 221 347 31261
christina.steigler@oerlikon.com
www.oerlikon.com/leyboldvacuum
About Oerlikon
Oerlikon (SIX: OERL) is a leading global technology Group, focusing on providing market-leading technologies and services for surface solutions, manmade fibers manufacturing, drive systems and vacuum pumps and components in growth markets. These cutting-edge technologies benefit customers by improving their product performance, productivity, efficient use of energy and resources, and also by contributing to a more sustainable environment. A Swiss company with over 100 years of tradition, Oerlikon has a global footprint of over 15 500 employees at more than 200 locations in 36 countries and sales of CHF 3.2 billion in 2014. The company invested CHF 121 million in RD in 2014 and has over 1 300 specialists developing innovative and customer-oriented products and services. Oerlikon Leybold Vacuum offers a broad range of advanced vacuum solutions for use in manufacturing and analytical processes, as well as for research purposes. The Segment’s core capabilities center on the development of application- and customer-specific systems for the creation of vacuums and extraction of processing gases. Fields of application are coating technologies, thin films and data storage, analytical instruments and classic industrial processes.
