A skid-mounted plate pasteurizer for milk, juice, tea drinks and wine, running the 85–95℃ / 15s HTST route with high heat recovery and low energy use. Nine models from 0.5 to 20 t/h, with PLC or PID control, connect easily to separators and homogenizers in complete beverage and dairy lines.
Fresh-milk dairies, juice bottlers and craft-wine makers across Central Asia, Africa, Southeast Asia and South America all need gentle heat treatment that protects heat-sensitive product. This plate pasteurizer meets that brief, heating, holding and cooling liquids such as fresh milk, juice and wine as an efficient building block of a turnkey beverage or dairy production line.
Its plate design brings high heat recovery, low energy use, a compact frame, simple operation and easy upkeep. The skid connects in-line with separators, homogenizers and flash degassers, and can even pre-sterilize raw material feeding long-shelf-life UHT milk production.
Control modes: fully automatic PLC with touch-screen display, or semi-automatic PID intelligent instrument.
Main configurations:
- A. Plate heat exchanger
- B. Material balance tank
- C. Hot water system
- D. Imported hot water pump
- E. Material conveying pump
- G. Electrical control system, temperature controller and recorder
- H. Stainless steel pipelines and valves
Overview
The pasteurizer handles fresh milk, milk beverages, fruit juice, tea drinks, assorted wines, ice-cream mixes and similar products. With models spanning 0.5 to 20 t/h, it scales from pilot batches to full industrial throughput while holding a stable pasteurization result.
Key Features
- High heat recovery – the plate stack recaptures heat from sterilized product to preheat cold feed, cutting steam and cooling-water consumption and long-run cost.
- Two control levels – choose full PLC/HMI automation or semi-automatic PID instrumentation, both with precise temperature control and real-time recording.
- Skid-mounted compactness – an integrated footprint that installs fast and services easily, adaptable to lines of any scale.
- Hygienic food-grade build – stainless wetted parts, smooth pipe runs and no dead legs make CIP straightforward and compliant.
- Flexible integration – docks directly with separators, homogenizers and flash degassers to form a complete processing line.
- Stable sterilization – accurate temperature and holding-time control removes harmful microbes while keeping product nutrition, flavour and texture.
How It Works
The conveying pump pushes cold raw material into the recovery section of the plate exchanger, where it absorbs heat from the outgoing sterilized stream and preheats. It then flows to the heating section and is quickly raised to 85–95℃ by circulating hot water.
Product holds that temperature for 15 seconds in the holding tube to complete pasteurization. The hot sterilized stream then passes back through the recovery section to warm incoming feed, before the cooling section brings it to the target outlet temperature – all within a sealed, contamination-free pipeline.
Process Route
5℃ → 65℃ (homogenization) → 85~95℃ (15s holding) → 5℃
Technical Parameters
Data is for reference only. Specifications can be customized to your production requirements.
Applications
- Dairy: pasteurization of fresh milk, flavoured milk, milk beverages and yogurt base.
- Beverages: fruit juice, tea drinks, plant-protein and functional beverages.
- Wine: low-temperature sterilization of fruit wine, rice wine and craft beer.
- Frozen food: sterilization of ice-cream mixes and similar raw materials.
- Other food: heat-sensitive liquid food raw materials and condiments.
Build Your Line With Us
Team this plate pasteurizer with our filling, blending and CIP systems for a complete packaged drinking water production line, dairy or juice plant. Reach out to Zhonglian Machinery for model selection and turnkey project delivery.
