M A C H I N E R Y & D E V E L O PM E N T
The modern market of beverage is in continuous search of new ideas to propose to consumers, who are usually inclined to taste new products, especially when they show features such that make them interesting also on a functional and health point of view. Lately, in non-alcoholic products range, a new market has born, which is parallel to the more traditional ones of mineral waters, soft drinks, fruit juices and energy drinks: the market of flavoured and microelements-enriched waters is nowadays an important fact to which process equipments manufacturers such as WATER SYSTEMS attend more and more. In addition to the classic in line premixing systems, which usually work at a water-concentrate dosing ratio between 1:4 and 1:7, WATER SYSTEMS manufactures now also systems which can to work at a far lower dosing ratio, able to reach ratios around 1:200 or with higher dosing accuracy. Between the newest applications, have occasionally appeared on the market systems for the enrichment of mineral water with pure oxygen: this kind of product, probably thanks to aimed marketing actions, is carving out an interesting space on international markets. WATER SYSTEMS has been stirred about this issue by one of its partners and therefore has introduced in its already wide range of products a new series of equipment, called OXYGIZER. The device, able to process water flow rates between 3.000
Oxygizer Series Oxygen Enrichment Device For Mineral Water and 50.000 l/h, uses the technology of carbon dioxide dosing, already widely and positively used in carbonating systems, and fits it to the lower dosing and higher precision which are required by the oxygen, as it has a lower solubility than the carbon dioxide one. For the consumer maximum protection, as the oxygen enrichment does not generate a perceivable effervescence effect to the taste, the equipment is provided with a high accuracy and reliability oxygen analyzer. The instrument can be combined with a data logger or interfaced to a SCADA supervising system. The OXYGIZER has been conceived to feed those isobaric filling machines which are suitable to handle a gas like oxygen. The equipment can be equipped with a set of accessories (e.g. pressurization pump and heat exchanger for inlet water cooling) which make it suitable to be installed also in hot Countries, where environmental conditions are unfavorable to the oxygen dissolving in non controlled conditions. Febbraio 2011
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