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Circulation cleaning of a plate heat exchanger fouled by tomato juice
Author(s) -
CHEOW C. S.,
JACKSON A. T.
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
international journal of food science and technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.831
H-Index - 96
eISSN - 1365-2621
pISSN - 0950-5423
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2621.1982.tb00197.x
Subject(s) - heat exchanger , plate heat exchanger , materials science , pulp and paper industry , chemistry , chromatography , environmental science , composite material , waste management , mechanical engineering , engineering
Summary A diluted tomato paste, applied as evenly as possible to one side of plate heat exchanger plates, has been used to study the effect of three temperatures (20, 70 and 90°C) when using water as a circulation cleaning fluid. From the experimental results it would appear that 70°C is the optimum temperature for this duty. Increasing the temperature to 90°C caused protein denaturation of the deposited tomato soil and cleaning efficiency was reduced. The soiling technique used in this work was found to be simple and consistent in studying the cleaning‐in‐place of the plate heat exchanger, and the direct weighing method of measuring soil removal was found to be reproducible.