JPS6036742B2 - Adjusted fine coconut milk production equipment - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to an apparatus for producing adjusted fine coconut milk, which uses crude coconut milk obtained from coconuts native to the south as a raw material to produce adjusted fine coconut milk that has high commercial value and is used for luxury beverages. The present invention relates to an apparatus capable of producing coconut milk on an industrial scale.

The frozen juice obtained by crushing and pressing the white coconut is known as "crude coconut milk," and it has various excellent properties as a raw material for modified milk. However, the current situation is that it is hardly used in the field of high-quality beverages.

There are many causes for this, but the major ones include the formation of large-grained precipitates during the manufacturing process, which causes the so-called midine phenomenon, and the separation of oil, which makes it difficult to obtain a uniform emulsion. In addition, it is difficult to remove volatile unpleasant odors caused by impurities such as oxides produced by contact with air during the production process of crude coconut milk, making it unsuitable for high-quality beverages. This invention is an apparatus that can produce adjusted coconut milk suitable for high-grade beverages while fully utilizing the raw material properties of crude coconut milk and eliminating the process problems described above. The purpose is to provide the following.

That is, in this invention, the nonvolatile components in crude coconut milk are dispersed in the form of fine particles, and auxiliary agents such as stabilizers and seasonings are added to further sterilize, deodorize, and stabilize the milk.

The apparatus for producing adjusted fine coconut milk of the present invention will be explained in more detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings.

As mentioned above, this invention uses "crude coconut milk" which is obtained by freezing the squeezed juice obtained by crushing and pressing the white coconut and separating it from the dregs.

Therefore, first, it is necessary to thaw this frozen crude coconut milk. So, first, put this in a defroster (or refrigerator)
I'll send it to 1. Once thawed, it is sent to a storage tank 3 connected to the thawing machine through a pipe. This storage tank 3 is further pipe-connected to a receiving tank 5 with a mixing mechanism via a pump PI. Therefore, the thawed crude coconut milk stored in the storage tank 3 is transferred to the receiving tank 5 by the pump PI. Then, it is necessary to dilute the crude coconut milk by supplying warm water to this receiving tank 5, but this overflowing water (6
0 to 70oo) is piped from storage tank 7 via pump P2. The downstream side of the receive tank 5 is further connected by pipe to a static mixer 11 via a pump P3. In this static mixer 11, the crude coconut milk diluted with the warm water is thoroughly mixed. The static mixer 11 has, for example, 20
A pipe is connected to a homogenizer 13 that performs homogenization treatment at a high pressure of about 0 to 300 k9/carp to make the bottle fine particles. The homogenizer 13 is pipe-connected to a deaeration tank 15 via a pump P4. The coconut milk that has been homogenized into an emulsion by the homogenizer 13 is forcibly transferred to a deaeration tank 15, which is connected to a depressurization/deaeration device 17 such as a vacuum pump. The emulsion is degassed under reduced pressure to remove gas, air and volatile substances. The downstream side of the deaeration tank 15 is pipe-connected to a mixing tank 19 via a pump P5. This mixing tank 19 is for mixing the emulsion which has been subjected to the vacuum degassing treatment and an auxiliary agent which is a mixture of stabilizers and seasonings with water at an appropriate temperature. By the way, the mechanism for feeding this auxiliary agent to the mixing tank 19 is as follows. That is,
The mixing tank 21 is filled with, for example, Bakuga sugar, and the mixing tank 23 is filled with, for example, skimmed milk powder, and both mixing tanks 23 are supplied with hot water in a hot water storage tank 27 that has been raised by the heat of the boiler 25. Connected by pipe. Bakuga sugar and skim milk powder are mixed with warm water in both mixing tanks 21 and 23, respectively.

Then, the Bakuga sugar solution and the skimmed milk powder are fed into a homogenizer 29 which is pipe-connected to the downstream side of both the mixing tanks 21 and 23, and the two solutions are mixed and homogenized to create a mixed solution. A receive tank 31 for completely accommodating the above-mentioned liquid mixture is connected to the downstream side of the homogenizer 29, and further downstream thereof is connected to the mixing tank 19 via a pump P6. This mixing tank 1
Since the emulsion that has been homogenized as described above is fed into the mixing tank 9, the emulsion is mixed with the homogenized liquid preparation serving as an auxiliary agent in this mixing tank 19.

Here, the prepared emulsion is sent to a sterilizing and deodorizing machine 43 which is pipe-connected downstream of the mixing tank 19. This sterilizing and deodorizing machine 43 is connected to the boiler 25, and the boiler 25 heat-sterilizes the prepared emulsion in the sterilizing and deodorizing machine 43 at a predetermined temperature of, for example, 130 to 14,000. Volatile odor is emitted during this heat sterilization process, but in order to remove this odor, a vacuum degassing device 44 is attached to the sterilization/deodorization machine 43. Sterilization and deodorization machine 4
The blended emulsion that has been sterilized and deodorized in step 3 is further sent to a homogenizer 45 that is pipe-connected downstream, and the blended emulsion is homogenized.

A heat exchanger 47 is pipe-connected to the downstream side of the homogenizer 45, and the heated preparation liquid is mixed here to cool the emulsion whose temperature has increased. heat exchanger 47
A sterile storage tank 48 is pipe-connected to the downstream side of the tank 48 and stores the coconut milk liquid, which is a cooled emulsion, in a sterile state. This storage tank 48 is further connected with a pipe to a filling machine 49, where the coconut milk liquid is packed into tetra packs, bottles, etc. and shipped. As described above, according to the present invention, it has become possible to produce fine coconut milk, which has a high commercial value and is used for luxury beverages, on an industrial scale using crude coconut milk as a raw material.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS The attached drawings are explanatory diagrams showing a compounded fine coconut milk manufacturing apparatus of the present invention.

1... Thaw device, 3... Storage tank, 5...
...Receive tank, 7...Storage tank, 11
...Static mixer, 13,29,45
...Homogenizer, 15...Deaeration tank, 17...
・Decompression deaerator, 19, 21, 23...Mixing tank, 25...Boiler, 27...Storage tank, 31...Receive tank, 43...・・・
・Sterilizing and deodorizing machine, 47... Heat exchanger, 48...
- Sterile storage tank, 49...Filling machine.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1: a thaw device 1 for thawing frozen crude coconut; a storage tank 3 for storing the thawed crude coconut mill; a receiving tank 5 for storing the coconut milk diluted by mixing it with warm water; and the diluted crude milk liquid. A static mixer 11 that stirs the milk, a first homogenizer 13 that homogenizes the agitated crude milk, a deaeration tank 15 that removes gas from the homogenized crude milk, and a gas remover. a mixing tank 19 for mixing the milk liquid with an auxiliary agent;
A storage tank 41 that stores a portion of the blended milk liquid, a sterilizer/deodorizer 43 that sterilizes the blended milk liquid and removes odors, and a second homogenizer 45 that homogenizes the sterilized and deodorized blended milk liquid. It consists of a cooler 47 that cools the homogenized milk mixture, a sterile tank 48 that stores the cooled homogenized milk liquid, and a filling machine 49 that fills the milk liquid into a predetermined container. are connected by pipes in the order described above, and the receiving tank 5 is further connected to a storage tank 7 by pipes,
A vacuum deaerator 17 is connected to the deaeration tank 15, and a receive tank 31 containing a homogenized auxiliary agent is further connected to the mixing tank 19. An apparatus for producing adjusted fine coconut milk, comprising a pump P for transferring crude coconut milk liquid during the refining process in the following order.