Determination of Rotor Power Consumption in a Thin Film Scraped Surface Heat Exchanger

Authors: Dhruv J*, IK Sawhney, AK Dodeja and PS Minz

Volume 5, Issue 6

Abstract

Scraped surface heat exchangers (SSHE) are prevalent in the food industry to heat/cool viscous fluids and to provide enhanced mixing. The present study was undertaken to determine the power consumption for different blade assembly configurations for the first stage and second stage SSHE. Milk was concentrated from 15% to 26% total solids using first stage SSHE and 32 to 52% total solids using second stage SSHE. Effect of number of blades (2,4,6) weight of blades (1.6, 1.75, 2.0 kg) and (1.75, 2.0 kg, 2.25 kg ) and rotor speed (150, 175, 200 rpm) and (125,150, 175 rpm) was investigated on power consumption (W) using Response Surface Methodology for the first stage and second stage SSHE. The results show that power consumption increased linearly with increase in number of blades as well as rotor speed. Power consumption varied from 420 to 734 W for the first stage SSHE and it varied from 448 to 755 W for the second stage SSHE for all weight of the blades.

Keywords: Power Consumption; Scraped Surface Heat Exchanger; Optimization

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