WO2005110128A1 - Sistema y método de cocción-enfriamiento de alimentos por inmersión bajo convección forzada y difusa - Google Patents
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- the present invention relates to the system and method of cooking-cooling of food by immersion under forced and diffuse convection, and more specifically to a cooking-cooling system and method of food arranged in molds housed in support trays stacked inside a tank adapted to be filled and emptied with a cooking or cooling liquid subjected to forced and diffuse convection in turbulent regime.
- a cooking-cooling food installation comprising a plurality of tanks for housing the food to be cooked, and automatic means for loading and unloading said food through a side discharge loading opening existing in each of said tanks, said opening of each tank being equipped with a sliding side door with hermetic closure.
- the installation includes means for filling each tank with at least one cooking or cooling liquid, and means for subsequently emptying it.
- Each tank includes means for heating the cooking liquid in its interior, for example, by bubbling water vapor through the cooking liquid, although eventually the cooking liquid can be previously fully or partially heated.
- the food to be cooked and / or cooled is preferably arranged in molds housed in a support trays stacked inside each t anque, preferably forming at least one lower shelf and at a lower supported pile. in a corresponding means of support lower and upper inside the tank.
- the cooking or cooling of food is carried out, in the aforementioned background, by a traditional system. In this traditional model, a stack of product molds is deposited in a heated hot water bath, where the transmission of heat to the product is practically static; that is, by thermal conduction almost exclusively.
- the elements involved in the system are, in their greater proportion, of a specific high heat, as corresponds to water and, above all, the equivalent of the product, since the heat energy required by the physical energy is added to its merely physical thermal capacity. chemical-physical reactions of cooking. There is only a minor transmission of heat by the most efficient method of thermal convection (by movement of the surrounding water, not the product), which is of two types, alternatively: by natural convection, in which the slightly cooled water tends to fall to the bottom due to its higher density; and by the replacement of hot water destined to temper the water of the cooking bath.
- the expansion of the product in contact with heating or cooling water causes natural convection to affect a minimum surface area of the total corresponding to all molds in the basket.
- An objective of the present invention is to provide a system and method of cooking-cooling food by immersion under forced and diffuse convection in turbulent regime capable of maximizing caloric exchange and optimizing the thermal efficiency of the process, providing an effective reduction of energy costs and a regular cooking-cooling process.
- the present invention contributes to achieving the above and other objectives by means of a cooking-cooling system of food by immersion under forced and diffuse convection, of the type comprising at least one tank to house the food to be cooked-cooled, about filling means for filling said tank with a cooking or cooling liquid, a drain means for evacuating said cooking or cooling liquid from the tank, and a heating means for heating the cooking or cooling liquid.
- the system is characterized in that the tank comprises at least one lower region and one upper region, circulation means being arranged to capture cooking or cooling liquid from inside said lower region from at least one lower outlet located in a first lower side wall of the lower region and introduce it to the interior of said upper region through I less an upper inlet located in a first upper lateral wall of the upper region and to capture cooking or cooling liquid from the interior of the upper region from at least one upper outlet located in a second upper side wall of the upper region and introduce it into the interior of the region lower through at least one lower inlet located in a second lower side wall of the lower region.
- the first lower side wall is opposite and opposite to the second lower central wall, while the first upper side wall is opposite and facing said second upper side wall, to thereby facilitate a Transverse circulation of the cooking or cooling liquid in both lower and upper regions, in opposite directions.
- the system comprises a plurality of said lower outlets spread over a significant area of said first lower side wall of the lower region, a plurality of said upper inlets distributed over a significant area of said first upper side wall of the upper region, a plurality of said upper outlets spread over a significant area of said second upper side wall of the upper region, and a plurality of said lower entries distributed over a significant area of said second lower side wall of the lower region.
- the lower outlets are connected to the upper inlets through at least one first conduit and the upper outlets are connected to the lower inlets through at least one second conduit.
- the system includes connected pumping means to drive the cooking or cooling liquid inside said first duct.
- the above-mentioned heating means may be external to the tank, whereby the cooking liquid would be introduced already heated to the tank, or they may be arranged to heat the cooking liquid inside the tank, or a combination of both.
- the system may optionally include cooling means, usually external to the tank, to cool the cooling liquid.
- the heating means When the heating means are inside the tank preferably they comprise a plurality of lower steam inlets arranged to bubble steam through the cooking or cooling liquid into the lower region of the tank and a plurality of upper steam inlets arranged to bubble steam through the liquid of cooling or cooling in the upper chamber, said lower steam inlets arranged adjacent to said lower liquid outlets and said upper steam inlets are arranged adjacent to said upper liquid outlets.
- a plate adapted to restrict a vertical circulation of the cooking or cooling liquid is interposed.
- this plate comprises perforations to allow the evacuation of the cooking or cooling liquid from both lower and upper regions by the emptying means, which are arranged in relation to the lower region of the tank.
- the tank comprises lower support means to support a lower stack of support trays inside the lower region and upper support means to support an upper stack of said support trays inside the region higher.
- the mentioned support trays are adapted to support the food to be cooked-cooled, preferably arranged in molds.
- the mentioned lower (s) and upper (s) batteries are sized to leave small spaces around them inside the tank to help accelerate and direct the transverse circulation of the cooking or cooling liquid.
- each support tray includes, for example, a double bottom joined to its bottom by transverse partitions in order to delimit spaces that facilitate the transverse circulation of the cooking or cooling liquid from one side of the support tray to the other.
- the tank of the system of the present invention is preferably of the type that has a side loading-unloading opening with a sliding side door of hermetic closure, and is applicable to the installation described in the international patent application WO 03/096815, of to the current applicant, cited above.
- the system of the present invention is equally applicable to a tank with a top loading and unloading opening.
- the present invention also provides a method of cooking-cooling food by immersion under forced and diffuse convection, of the type that comprises arranging the food to be cooked-cooled inside at least one tank; filling said tank with a cooking or cooling liquid; eventually heating said cooking or cooling liquid inside the tank; and evacuate the cooking or cooling liquid from the tank, said method being characterized in that it further comprises collecting cooking or cooling liquid from the inside of a lower region of the tank from at least one lower outlet located in a first lower side wall of said region!
- the method of the present invention comprises facilitating transverse circulation in opposite directions of the cooking or cooling liquid in the lower region and in the upper region, respectively, with said first lower side wall opposite and facing said second lower side wall and said first upper side wall opposite and facing said second upper side wall.
- the method also comprises diffusing said transverse circulation of the cooking or cooling liquid by arranging a plurality of said lower outlets spread over a significant area of the first lower side wall of the lower region, a plurality of said upper inlets distributed over a significant area of the first upper side wall of the upper region, a plurality of said upper outlets spread over a significant area of the second upper side wall of the upper region, and a plurality of said lower entries distributed over a significant area of the second lower side wall of the lower region.
- the method also comprises forcing a turbulent transverse circulation of the cooking or cooling liquid in the lower and upper regions of the tank by connecting the lower outlets with the upper inlets through at least one first conduit, connecting the outlets upper with the lower inlets through at least a second duct, and driving the cooking or cooling liquid at least inside said first duct by means of pumping means.
- the method also includes restricting a vertical circulation of the cooking or cooling liquid between the lower region and the upper region of the tank by interposing a plate between the two, while allowing the evacuation of the cooking or cooling liquid from both lower and upper regions by emptying means arranged in relation to the lower region of the tank by incorporating perforations to said plate.
- the system and / or method of the present invention it is possible to maximize the caloric exchange and optimize the thermal efficiency of the process, providing an effective reduction of energy costs and a high-regular cooking-cooling process, resulting in a food product Microbiologically safe and high organoleptic quality.
- a significant reduction in cooking and cooling time is added to the reduction of mechanical movement times provided by the cited document, since the proportion of heat transmission by forced convection is increased, when the interior water is stirred, hot or cold, by internal closed recirculation.
- the new system is capable of achieving an energy and operating advantage over traditional systems.
- the heat transfer times can be reduced by one fifth or sixth part (as long as it does not affect the transmission speed to the chemical, physical and biochemical reactions required for the best product quality).
- the system and method of the present invention supposes a 100% utilization of the energy (Enthalpy) of the steam, since this is mixed directly by injection with the cooking water, avoiding the losses corresponding to the steam-water transfer of heat in heating exchangers, plus the corresponding and unavoidable losses of heat (despite adequate heat) in the operation and control equipment, long pipelines and huge, necessarily exterior, storage and tempering tank cooking water
- the system and method of the present invention brings a noticeable decrease in cooking and cooling time, since now they are no longer carried out by simple natural convention and static thermal conduction, but with the agitation of the water produced by internal forced recirculation by pumping.
- Fig. 1 is a schematic front elevation view of a tank according to an embodiment of the system of the present invention
- Fig. 1A is a schematic view analogous to that of Fig. 1 showing stacks of support trays for cooked-cooled food loaded inside the tank 1
- the Fig. 2 is a schematic cross-sectional view taken along the plane ll-ll of Fig. 1
- Fig. 3 is a schematic view of a plate with a plurality of liquid outlets constituting a side wall of one of the regions of the tank of Fig. 1;
- Fig. 1 is a schematic front elevation view of a tank according to an embodiment of the system of the present invention
- Fig. 1A is a schematic view analogous to that of Fig. 1 showing stacks of support trays for cooked-cooled food loaded inside the tank 1
- the Fig. 2 is a schematic cross-sectional view taken along the plane ll-ll of Fig. 1
- Fig. 3 is a schematic view of a plate with a plurality of liquid outlets
- FIG. 4 is a perspective view of a support tray for supporting food to be cooked-cooled
- Fig. 5 is a perspective view of a stack of support trays to be introduced to one of the regions of the tank of Fig. 1.
- a tank, or boiler is generally indicated, which is part of the cooking-cooling system of food by immersion under forced and diffuse convection of the present invention.
- Said tank 1 is designed to house the food to be subjected to a cooking and subsequent cooling treatment, or only cooking, or only cooling, or other treatment, such as, for example, pasteurization.
- Said tank 1 may be part of an installation such as that described in said international patent application WO 03/096815, of the current applicant, and preferably has a side loading and unloading opening 22 equipped with a sliding side door 23 (Fig. 2), of hermetic closure, capable of withstanding an internal pressure, such as that described in the aforementioned international patent application PCT / ES 2004/000145, of the current applicant.
- a side loading and unloading opening 22 equipped with a sliding side door 23 (Fig. 2), of hermetic closure, capable of withstanding an internal pressure, such as that described in the aforementioned international patent application PCT / ES 2004/000145, of the current applicant.
- PCT / ES 2004/000145 an international patent application
- the tank 1 is equipped with filling means 24 for filling said tank 1 with a cooking or cooling liquid, and emptying means 25 for evacuating said cooking or cooling liquid from the tank 1.
- These filling and emptying means 24, 25 may comprise, as usual, pipes, valves and pumping means for connecting the tank with other tanks, reservoirs, different sources of liquid, drains, etc.
- the installation may include heating means and cooling means to heat or cool the cooking or cooling liquid before being introduced into the tank.
- the tank 1 includes heating means for heating the liquid inside the tank comprising, as is known, a series of steam inlets 14a, 14b arranged to bubble steam through the cooking liquid inside the tank 1.
- the tank 1 comprises a first outer side wall 7 and a second outer side wall 8 opposite and facing the first, and at least two distinct regions: a lower region 1a and an upper region 1b having respective first lower side walls 7a and first upper side wall 7b associated with said first outer side wall 7 and respective second lower side wall 8a and second upper side wall 8b associated with said second outer side wall 8.
- a lower outlet chamber 9a is formed, which is communicated through a first conduit 11 with an upper inlet chamber 10b, formed between the first upper side wall 7b and the first outer side wall 7.
- an upper outlet chamber 9b communi each through a second conduit 12 with a lower inlet chamber 10a, formed between the second lower side wall 8a and said second outer side wall 8.
- Each of the first and second lower side walls 7a, 8a of the lower region 1a and of the first and second upper side walls 7b, 8b of the upper region 1b are materialized by respective plates, each of which incorporates a plurality of holes constituting corresponding lower exits and entrances 3a, 4a and exits and entrances upper 3b, 4b.
- Pumping means 13 are connected to said first duct 11 to impel the cooking or cooling liquid therein in order to establish a transverse circulation of the cooking or cooling liquid inside the upper and lower regions 1a , 1b of the tank.
- This circulation is established by capturing the cooking or cooling liquid from the interior of the lower region 1a from the lower outlets 3a located in the first lower side wall 7a and introducing it into the interior of said upper region 1b through the upper inlets 4b located in the first upper side wall 7b, and capturing cooking or cooling liquid from inside the upper region 1 b from the upper exits 3b located in the second upper side wall 8b and introducing it into the lower region 1a through the lower inlets 4a located in the second lower side wall 8a.
- the said pumping means 13 are adapted and sized to force a large amount of cooling or cooling inside the lower and upper regions 1a, 1b of the tank 1. As indicated by arrows in Fig.
- the transverse circulation of the cooking or cooling liquid in each of the lower and upper regions 1a, 1b preferably occurs in opposite directions.
- the arrows of the continuous lines indicate the circulation in the upper region 1 b while the arrows in dashed lines indicate the circulation in the lower region 1a in an opposite direction.
- This transverse circulation constitutes a forced and diffuse convection in turbulent regime.
- the lower exits and entrances 3a, 4a and the upper exits and entrances 3b, 4b are distributed in a significant area of their corresponding first and second lower side walls 7a, 8a and first and second upper side walls 7b, 8b.
- FIG 3 shows, by way of example, a possible distribution of the upper entrances 4b on a plate constituting the upper side wall 7b.
- the upper inlets 4a comprise a large number of small holes regularly distributed throughout the plate except in a central area 27, which faces the mouth of the conduit 11 in the upper inlet chamber 10b.
- a jet of cooking or cooling liquid exiting the conduit 11 collides with said central area 27 free of holes and the flow is distributed throughout the upper inlet chamber 10b until it flows substantially uniformly through all the holes 4a.
- the plates that constitute the remaining side walls 7b, 8a, 8b of the upper and lower regions 1a, 1b are of similar dimensions and have a similar configuration and distribution of holes.
- a lower steam lance comprises a plurality of lower steam inlets 14a arranged to bubble steam through the cooking liquid next to the lower outlets 3a inside the lower region 1a of the tank 1, and an upper steam lance it comprises a plurality of upper steam inlets 14b arranged to bubble steam through the cooking liquid next to the upper outlets 3b inside the upper region 1b.
- This arrangement prevents the formation of steam pockets that are detrimental to the cooking process since the mixing of the steam with the cooking liquid takes place just in the lower and upper inlets 3a, 3b of collection in the respective lower and upper regions 1a, 1b .
- Fig. 4 one of said support trays 15 is shown to support the food to be cooked.
- the support trays 15 are designed to be stacked forming batteries 17a, 17b (one of which is shown in Fig. 5) suitable for being handled by automatic handling means and to be charged and unloaded from inside the tank 1, such as described in the cited international patent application WO 03/096815.
- the tank 1 comprises lower support means 16a for supporting one or more lower pins 17a of support trays 15 inside the lower region 1a and upper support means 16b for supporting one or more upper batteries 17b of support trays 15 inside the upper region 1 b.
- the tank 1 comprises lower support means 16a for supporting one or more lower pins 17a of support trays 15 inside the lower region 1a and upper support means 16b for supporting one or more upper batteries 17b of support trays 15 inside the upper region 1 b.
- the tank 1 has a depth sufficient to accommodate two lower pins 17a in the lower region 1a and two upper batteries 17b (shown by dashed lines) in the upper region 1b.
- the circulation means comprise two lower exit chambers 9a (not shown) communicated through the first two ducts 1 1 with two respective upper input chambers 1 0b, and two upper output chambers 9b communicated through two second ducts 12 with two respective lower inlet chambers 10a (not shown), in order to generate transverse circulation of liquid mainly where the lower and upper batteries 17a, 17b are housed.
- the first two ducts 11 can converge in their middle part for the installation of a single pump 13. As can be seen in Fig.
- the lower and upper piles 17a, 17b are sized to leave reduced spaces around them in the interior of the tank 1 to help accelerate and direct the circulation of the cooking or cooling liquid. It is clear that the depth of the tank could also be sufficient for a single cell in each region or for more than two. Also the tank would be easily expandable to more than two regions vertically by one or more additional dividing plates and a corresponding adaptation of the liquid circulation means and heating means. To facilitate the transverse circulation of the cooking or cooling liquid from one side to the other of the support tray 15, even when the support trays 15 are part of one of the lower or upper batteries 17a, 17b in one or the other of the regions bottom and top 1a, 1b of the tank 1, each support tray 15 (Fig.
- each lower or upper cell 17a, 17b (one of which is shown in Fig. 5) comprises a multitude of transverse passages that allow the circulation of the liquid therethrough.
- the present invention also comprises a method suitable for being carried out by means of the system described above.
- the cooking-cooling method of food by immersion under forced and diffuse convection comprises well-known steps, such as, first of all, arranging the food to be cooked-cooled inside at least one tank 1 , filling said tank 1 with a cooking liquid or cooling, possibly in the case of cooking, and only if necessary, heating said cooking or cooling liquid inside the tank 1, and finally evacuating the cooking or cooling liquid from the tank 1.
- the method of the invention comprises also collecting cooking or cooling liquid from the inside of a lower region 1a of the tank 1 from at least one lower outlet 3a located in a first lower side wall 7a of said lower region 1a, and introducing it into an upper region 1b of the tank 1 through at least one upper inlet 4b located in a first upper side wall 7b of said upper region 1b, and simultaneously collecting cooking or cooling liquid from inside the upper region 1b from at least one upper outlet 3b located in a second wall upper side 8b of the upper region 1b and insert it into the lower region 1a through at least one entrance i lower 4a located in a second lower side wall 8a of the lower region 1a.
- the method further comprises facilitating a transverse circulation in opposite directions of the cooking or cooling liquid in the lower region 1a and in the upper region 1b, respectively, with said first ateral and lower 7-year position placed and facing ad icha s egunda p lower side ared 8a and said first upper side wall 7b opposite and facing said second upper side wall 8b.
- the method comprises providing a plurality of said lower outlets 3a distributed over a significant area of the first lower side wall 7a of the lower region 1a, a plurality of said upper entries 4b distributed in a significant area of the first upper side wall 7b of the upper region 1b, a plurality of said upper outputs 3b distributed in a significant area of the second upper lateral wall 8b of the upper region 1b, and a plurality of said lower entries 4a distributed in a significant area of the second lower side wall 8a of the lower region 1a.
- the method also comprises forcing a turbulent transverse circulation of the cooking or cooling liquid by connecting the lower outlets 3a with the upper inlets 4b through at least one first conduit 11, connecting the upper outlets 3b with the lower inlets 4a through at least a second duct 12, and driving the cooking or cooling liquid to the less inside said first duct 11 by means of pumping means 13.
- the method of the invention also comprises arranging the food to be cooked-cooled in a plurality of stacked support trays 15 forming at least one lower stack 17a inside the lower region 1a and at least one upper stack 17b inside the upper region 1 b, and accelerating and directing said transverse circulation of the cooking or cooling liquid sized said lower (s) and upper (s) batteries 17a, 17b to leave a small space around them inside the tank 1.
- the method further comprises facilitating t ransversal ac at t raves ded chas p ilas inferior and superior 17a, 17b including in each support tray 15 at least one channel-like configuration suitable for transverse circulation of the cooking or cooling liquid from one side to the other of the support tray 15 even when the support tray 15 is part of one of the lower or upper (s) batteries 17a, 17b in one or the other of the lower and upper regions 1a, 1b of the tank 1.
- the application of the system and method of the present invention significantly increases the recirculation rates. and temperature distribution, while eliminating all types of thermal and thermal fluid short circuits within the tank or boiler (which the system itself could create) thus maximizing thermal transfer Mica between heating or cooling liquid and the product to be heated or cooled.
- a direct steam feed provides a 100% utilization of the energy (enthalpy) of the Steam, when mixed directly by injection with the cooking water, and avoiding losses corresponding to the steam-water transfer of heat in heat exchangers heating, plus the corresponding and unavoidable losses of heat, which allows a fast obtaining of the desired cooking temperature.
- the new design of the mold support trays on which the product is arranged allows a transverse flow through channels that optimize forced convection and maximize energy efficiency and contribute to homogenize thermal regularity.
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