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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 15, 2016
Filed:
Mar. 23, 2011
Andre Ratke, Waltrop, DE;
Thomas Stienen, Unna, DE;
Andre Ratke, Waltrop, DE;
Thomas Stienen, Unna, DE;
KHS GmbH, Dortmund, DE;
Abstract
A method for pasteurizing a continuous product chain in a device having an inlet, heat-up, pasteurization, and cooling regions all divided into treatment zones, and a transporter for passing products through these regions includes heating up, pasteurizing, and cooling by heat transfer between the products and a spray medium with which the products are sprayed, for each of the treatment zones, adapting a temperature of the spray medium to cause a desired consequence to heat transfer in the treatment zone, and varying a pasteurization process by changing a volumetric flow rate of the spray medium in at least one treatment zone between a maximum value and a minimum value.