Foods and beverages: apparatus – Electric – radiant or vibrational treating means
Patent
1990-11-12
1991-07-16
Simone, Timothy F.
Foods and beverages: apparatus
Electric, radiant or vibrational treating means
99483, 99DIG14, A23L 300
Patent
active
050315218
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to food processing and, in particular, to an electroplasmolyzer for processing plant raw material.
PRIOR ART
There is known an electroplasmolyzer for processing plant raw material (cf., B.R.Lazarenko et al. "Electroplasmolyz ", 1977, Kishinev: Kartya moldovenyaske, pp. 48, 49), which comprises a cylindrical casing having inlet and outlet holes and circular electrodes disposed uniformly along a generating line within said cylindrical casing. The electrodes are connected to a power source. Plant raw material passed through the cylindrical casing is processed with electric current. A disadvantage of the foregoing electroplasmolyzer for processing plant raw material is that the current gradient is non uniformly distributed within the casing due to the utilization of circular electrodes and their installation along the generating line of the cylindrical casing. The current gradient is maximum in proximity to the inner surface of the cylindrical casing. It generally decreases towards the longitudinal axis of said cylindrical casing. Consequently, plant raw material is processed nonuniformly and juice yield therefrom is insufficient.
There is also known an electroplasmolyzer for processing plant raw material (cf., SU, A, 535.076), which comprises a cylindrical casing having inlet and outlet holes and three sector electrodes arranged uniformly along a generating line withon the cylindrical casing at an angle of 120.degree. relative to one another. Crushed plant raw material is fed through the inlet hole to the cylindrical casing and fills its inner space.
Said crushed plant raw material moving within the casing of the electroplasmolyzer for processing plant raw material is processed with electric current supplied to the electrodes.
In the known electroplasmolyzer for processing plant raw material, the current gradient is distributed uniformly only in the interelectrode space formed by lateral surfaces of adjacent electrodes. Hence, nonuniform distribution of the current gradient occurs in the rest of the cylinder casing. As a result, the crushed plant raw mass is processed nonuniformly and juice yield therefrom is insufficient.
DISCLOSURE OF THE INVENTION
The object of the present invention is to create an electroplasmolyzer for processing plant raw material, in which the use of a magnetic field interacting with an electric field within a cylindrical casing would permit redistribution of the electric field therein and increase a current gradient in areas characterized by an insufficient degree of processing of plant raw material with electric current so as to obtain uniform processing of crushed plant raw mass and a greater juice yield therefrom.
This is solved by that an electroplasmolyzer for processing plant raw material, comprising a cylindrical casing having inlet and outlet holes and electrodes disposed uniformly along a generating lilne within the cylindrical casing, according to the invention, includes T-shaped electromagnets disposed uniformly on the outer surface along the generating line of the cylindrical casing, their number being a multiple of three each electromagnet being arranged above the interelectrode space formed by adjacent electrodes to which its coil is connected, while the yoke axis of each electromagnet is parallel to the longitudinal axis of the cylindrical casing.
The proposed electroplasmolyzer for processing plant raw material permits increasing juice yield from crushed plant raw mass by 1.5 to 2.5% in primary processing of apples into juice owing to the fact that the cytoplasm of plant raw material cells is disintegrated throughout the inner space of the cylindrical casing. The crushed plant raw mass is processed uniformly, a feature increasing operational stability and efficiency of equipment for processing plant raw material.
With a greater juice yield, apple pomace contains less moisture, which is generally a fuel-saving factor. Furthermore, the drying rate substantially increases. Juice yield increases by 0.5 to 0.75% in
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Chebanu Vasily G.
Grishko Alexei A.
Kozin Vladimir M.
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