Plant extraction and Concentration Process Line

Many companies currently use cumbersome and labour intensive processes for extraction of plant and botanical material. This process usually involves batch tanks to mix and boil plant material, which are then decanted, cooled and transferred to an evaporator for concentration.

Flavourtech can design and install Continuous Plant Extract and Concentration process lines to automate this application.

Key benefits of the Flavourtech line include:

• Continuous processs
• Consistent high quality product
• Small footprint
• Reduced labour
• Reduced downtime due to product or batch changes

The Plant Extract process line consists of various Flavourtech products in an automated or semi automated process line. These may include:

• Slurry Production Module. Plant material is milled to a pre-determined size and mixed with water
• Extraction Module. The plant slurry is heated and held at a selected temperature for a specified time within the Rotating Disc Column reaction column.
• Clarification module. To remove liquid extract from solids to a pre-determined clarity.
• Concentration Module. Using the Centritherm evaporator the liquid extract is concentrated to the required concentration using only 1 second heat contact time at temperatures as low as 40° C.

Due to the low residence time of evaporation and extraction, there is little to no damage of important product constituents, such as colour and active ingredients. This leads to a higher quality product. The centrifugal nature of the Centritherm evaporator also enables higher concentrations than other evaporators leading to the possibility of increasing the product portfolio that can be offered to customers.

For more information on the Centritherm evaporator see:

www.ft-tech.net/Technologies/Centritherm/centritherm.html

For more information on the Rotating Disc Column see:

www.ft-tech.net/Technologies/Rotating_Disc_Column/rotating-disc-column.html