ROTOR APPARATUS FOR PRODUCTION OF DRIED FRUIT AND VEGETABLE PRODUCTS AND CHIPS Russian patent published in 2016 - IPC F26B15/14 

FIELD: food industry.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to equipment for vet-heat treatment of vegetal raw material and can be used for producing chips, as well as dried fruit and vegetable products from apples, pears, carrots, beet roots and other vegetable raw material and root crops. Body of the rotor device includes two coaxial cylinders with a circular channel between them; channel forms the working area of the apparatus and is separated with partitions into working sections that have slots and ensure the possibility of moving the cassettes with product and drive disc; outer surface of inner and inner surface of outer cylinders are equipped with guides for the cassettes installed with possibility of moving along the sections of the circular channel; wherein the inner guide is made in the form of roller bearings and the drive disc serves as the outer guide and support; there are slots to provide movement of the cassettes with the product between the said sections and working area of the sections in the external cylinder of the body; convection drying section has a heat carrier recirculation loop, a pipeline, which is located inside the inner cylinder of the body, microwave drying sections are equipped with heat carrier recirculation loops that are partially located inside the inner cylinder of the body; cassette for products is single-and/or multilayered, there is a toothed rim in its upper part; said toothed rim engages with gear rim that is located on the outer surface of the inner cylinder of the body.

EFFECT: invention shall ensure stage-to-stage implementation of combined convective - microwave drying process while considering kinetic laws of the process and possibility of changing the total time.

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