• Korean Journal of Food Science and Technology
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• v.22 no.4
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• pp.479-485
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• 1990

For the automation of a evaporation process, computer based evaporation system was built and applied to acquisition of the process variables with an centrifugal thin film evaporator(Centri-Therm, CT-1B). Controls of the process conditions were performed by computer system for pressure, feeding rate, steam, evaporation temperature and flow rate of cooling water. The data acquisitions were also performed by computer system for the changes in the concentration and temperature readings for steam, evaporation and cooling water at the both inlet and outlet. The control and the acquisition variables were collected through the interface device and analyzed by programs using the PASCAL language. To control the feeding rate during the concentration process, inverter was used. The cooling water for the vapor condensation was controlled by the valve controller and should be supplied with the flow rate of 125 kg/h. The maximum vapor condensation rate was 41.7kg/h at the feeding rate of 125 kg/h.

• Korean Journal of Food Science and Technology
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• v.23 no.4
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• pp.437-441
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• 1991

During the evaporation of garlic juice by centrifugal thin film evaporator (Centri-Therm, CT-1B), the effect of feeding rate was investigated for its operation properties. On the process condition of feeding rate of 25 to 125 kg/h, theoretical average thickness of the garlic juice film on the rotating cone and residence time of the juice in the evaporator varied in the range of 0.52 to 0.89 mm and 1.77 to 6.75 second, respectively. And the flow of garlic juice was considered as a streamline flow by Reynolds number. At constant temperatures of steam and juice evaporation, concentration ratio decreased with the increase of the feeding rate. But the evapoartion rate and overall heat transfer coefficient increased with the increase of the feeding rate until the feeding rate reached a certain value and then decreased. On the conditions of $25{\leq}$feeding rate ${\leq}125\;kg/h$, evaporation temperature of $40^{\circ}C$, $95{\leq}steam$ $temperature≤120^{\circ}C$ and initial feed concentration of $32^{\circ}Brix$, concentration ratio and overall heat transfer coefficient were $1.04{\sim}2.04\;and\;3,074.33{\sim}17,614.70kJ/m^{2}{\cdot}h{\cdot}^{\circ}C$.