SATURATOR FOR BEET-SUGAR PRODUCTION Russian patent published in 2011 - IPC C13B20/04 

FIELD: food industry.

SUBSTANCE: saturator contains a cone-bottomed cylindrical body equipped with technologic nipples and perforated baffle plates positioned in its lower part, designed in the form of elastic membranes for saturation gas flow dispersion. In the upper part of the cylindrical body a device for juice drops separation from saturation gas is positioned; the device is represented by a conic frustum with longitudinal spiral grooves on the inside surface mounted with its major base to the wall of the cylindrical body to form a cavity for exuded drops collection on the outside. The cavity is communicated with the cylindrical body cavity positioned under the conic frustum. At least four flexible return tubes blanked off on the lower butt are diametrically positioned in the cylindrical body. Along each tube inside the tube wall convergent nozzles are designed for juice supply from the collection cavity onto the inside surface of the cylindrical body and formation of a liquid film on the surface. The spiral grooves have a profile in the form of "swallowtail". The device body in the form of conic frustum for juice drops separation is made of bimetal. The material of the inside surface with spiral grooves has a heat conduction coefficient which is 1.5-2.0 times higher than the heat conduction coefficient of the material of the outside surface.

EFFECT: saturation process effectiveness enhancement by way of maintenance of standardised thermophysical parameters of weight transfer on the surface of the conic frustum.

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