Patent ID: 11864572
Assignee: EMPIRICAL INNOVATIONS, INC.
Field: Food chemistry (Chemistry)
Classification: CPC A  B | IPC A  B

Claim 0:
1. A system for receiving an output of a direct steam injector, the system including:
(a) a vacuum chamber which includes walls defining a vacuum chamber volume, the vacuum chamber further including a vacuum port to the vacuum chamber volume and a product outlet port from the vacuum chamber volume;
(b) a vacuum source operatively connected to the vacuum port;
(c) a mixture flow path having a mixture inlet opening adapted to be connected to receive the output of a direct steam injector, the mixture flow path being defined at least in part by a hold conduit which extends from the mixture inlet opening, through one of the walls of the vacuum chamber, and to a hold conduit outlet within the vacuum chamber volume so that the hold conduit includes a hold conduit portion located outside the vacuum chamber volume and a hold conduit portion located inside the vacuum chamber volume;
(d) a mixture flow path cooling structure; and
(e) wherein the hold conduit portion located inside the vacuum chamber volume includes a first hold conduit segment inner surface in substantial thermal communication with a first hold conduit segment cooling structure, the first hold conduit segment cooling structure comprising a respective portion of the mixture flow path cooling structure and including one or more first hold conduit segment coolant fluid circulating chambers each having a respective coolant fluid circulation inlet and a respective coolant fluid circulation outlet.