Articles Tagged with ''heat exchangers''

Blown gaskets. Misaligned plates. Burn-on. Heat exchangers, which transfer heat between liquids, are crucial to the processing operations of dairy plants, but can also cause a world of headaches if not maintained correctly.

Heat exchanger systems enable dairy plants to effectively heat and cool their products without fouling them. Those in the market for a new heat exchanger system need to consider factors such as processing efficiency, ease of maintenance and cleaning, and cost-efficiency, while avoiding heating that ramps up too quickly, damaging heat-sensitive liquids and adding to cleaning frequency.

Family-owned Longley Farm improved the production of its dairy products by installing two HRS corrugated tube heat exchangers as part of ongoing factory upgrades.

As a relatively stable Newtonian fluid, liquid milk presents few handling challenges, something which has resulted in the use of simple plate-type heat exchangers in the majority of dairies. However, other dairy products, such as yogurt, butter, curds and cheese can all vary according to temperature and, if handled incorrectly, may have their key textural parameters damaged by routine processing.

Dairy plant managers work to keep their processing equipment running as frequently as possible to optimize plant efficiency and minimize operating costs.