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The Engineering Toolbox offers free information in a range of areas, from Acoustics to Water Systems.

The information provided is practical and easy to use as [...]]]> Whenever you are busy with calculations this site can help keep the data and information you need at you fingertips.

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The Engineering Toolbox offers free information in a range of areas, from Acoustics to Water Systems.

The information provided is practical and easy to use as the image below shows. This is a good resource to have to hand to support your technical activity.

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Now Voran Machinery, a German company which offers a wide range of impressive fruit juice equipment seems to be filling this gap.

click the image to visit [...]]]> One of the problems that often faces the small scale processor Is the percieved lack of suitable equipment for the establishment of a small sized business.

Now Voran Machinery, a German company which offers a wide range of impressive fruit juice equipment seems to be filling this gap.

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To me this euipment appears to be very promisising. Voran seems to offer unit operqtions at a range of capacities all with good control. My wory would be cost and what kind of support they are able to offer

I do not know this company and the post is based only on reading the website, I would therefore really like to hear from you if you have any futher knowledge or experience. You can email me using this link.

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Although the article does not mention newer technologies such as radiation and pressure processing and does not [...]]]> This short 2 or 3 page article is not abut the technology of preservation, but rather about the history of how preservation became so important to civilization.

Although the article does not mention newer technologies such as radiation and pressure processing and does not expand on the science of preservation, knowing the history helps to give a wider view when one considers preservation.

The author ends by saying “Interests have shifted from preserve “because we have to”, to “preserve because we like to.”. This of course applies to the modern richer urban dweller and not poor rural communities.

Its interesting to think that if urban people still had preservation capacity the Local Food movement would be much more successful!

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In falling film evaporators the liquid product (A) usually enters the evaporator at the head (1) of the evaporator. In the head the product is evenly distributed into the heating tubes. A thin film enters the heating tube are it flows downwards at boiling temperature and [...]]]>

In falling film evaporators the liquid product (A) usually enters the evaporator at the head (1) of the evaporator. In the head the product is evenly distributed into the heating tubes. A thin film enters the heating tube are it flows downwards at boiling temperature and is partially evaporated. In most cases steam (D) is used for heating the evaporator. The product and the vapor both flow downwards in a parallel flow. This gravity-induced downward movement is increasingly augmented by the co-current vapor flow. The separation of the concentrated product (C) form its vapor (B) is undergoing in the lower part of the heat exchanger (3) and the separator (5).