Maconse - Other fruit and vegetable processing equipment

Treatment of citrus raft: it reduces weight losses, maintains freshness and improves the appearance of citrus

Picture of Treatment of citrus raft
The raft of treatment of citrus, is primarily intended for the food industry, bringing together all the features necessary to give to the product a treatment with fungicides for disinfection and removal of bacteria, getting thus reducing weight losses, maintain freshness and improve the appearance of the citrus fruits, thus prolonging its commercial life.

This machine consists of the product download at the bottom of the raft, that product is deposited in bulk, so that a conveyor located inside of the liferaft by a band, which has installed some stainless steel buckets move the product to the top of the machine, where it ends the carrier in the form of gooseneck. The displacement of raw this receives a bath, using a few waterfalls that apply a water curtain with products needed fungicides for disinfection, the water would be previously heated as it passes through the heat exchanger Tube bundle, installed on the side of of the machine. When the product has been treated, you reach the end of the conveyor where it receives a curtain air at room temperature, thus achieving a perfect drying of the product.