Foods and beverages: apparatus – Electric – radiant or vibrational treating means
Patent
1998-07-07
2000-02-01
Simone, Timothy
Foods and beverages: apparatus
Electric, radiant or vibrational treating means
99483, 99DIG14, A23L 300, A23L 326, A23L 332
Patent
active
060190310
ABSTRACT:
Treatment systems for treating flowable food products using electrical pulses to inactivate microbes. Systems described include one or more stages having flow-through processors. The flow-through processors have first and second electrodes which are spaced across a treatment chamber in which an intense electrical field is generated using bipolar electrical pulses. The treatment chamber is temperature stabilized to improve processing and minimize surface buildup on the electrodes. Oversized processor electrodes can be used such as in conjunction with an electrode spacer to provide a treatment zone having a relatively uniform and high electrical field strength.
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Barbosa-Canovas Gustavo V.
Olsen Robert G.
Pedrow Patrick D.
Qin Bai-Lin
Swanson Barry G.
Simone Timothy
Washington State University
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