Tropical and fibrous fruit puts the recovery and finishing stages under pressure. Peel, seeds, fibre and viscosity change what passes through a screen, pump, valve or thermal passage.
Fruit family · Tropical and fibrous fruit
Use the five stages below to turn the fruit description into a machine brief. The equipment list is a shortlist of duties to investigate, not a claim of model compatibility.
Washing and inspection are followed by the preparation that suits the fruit. Mango has a stone; pineapple and guava bring peel and fibrous material; passion fruit brings a seed and pulp structure. These are not interchangeable preparation duties.
A pulper recovers an edible pulp fraction; a press targets expressed liquid. Fibrous material and seeds affect screen loading, reject collection and the acceptable product texture. Review the actual working parts, not only a nominal aperture.
Finishing controls coarse fibre and retained particles. A clear-liquid target needs a separate clarification review. High-viscosity pulp may need different pump, valve and thermal passages from a thin juice.
The product condition at the thermal machine is the pulp or juice after finishing, not the whole fruit. Particle size, viscosity and fouling behaviour need to be stated for the selected passage and holding arrangement.
Bulk filling and transfer are selected around the finished product's viscosity, particles and temperature. The bag, fitment and support arrangement are part of the filling specification.
Equipment to review
Wash & sort
A powered belt on an open support frame moves whole fruit or prepared pieces between reception, inspection and processing.
Continuous belt transfer with accessible inspection edges
Wash & sort
A continuous washer with exposed brush rollers and overhead spray bars for cleaning firm produce before preparation.
Rotating brushes with overhead rinsing
Size & destone
A hopper-fed rotor machine that breaks prepared fruit into mash for pulping or juice recovery.
Driven rotor inside an accessible crushing chamber
Size & destone
A compact hopper-fed recovery assembly with separate processing housings and product discharge for selected stone-bearing fruit.
Fruit-specific flesh separation and recovery
Recover pulp & juice
Two separately driven screening stages combine pulp recovery and finer finishing on one supporting frame.
Sequential rotor-and-screen separation
Finish & clarify
The finer screening stage of a pulping arrangement controls coarse fibre and product texture before transfer and treatment.
Screen finishing within the pulping system
Finish & clarify
A driven centrifugal separator with a closed bowl and connected pipework for removing fine suspended matter from extracted juice.
Centrifugal separation in a disc-stack bowl
Transfer & balance
A vacuum-vessel assembly with sight windows, connected piping and a discharge pump for managing entrained and dissolved air.
Air release in a vacuum vessel with controlled product transfer
Transfer & balance
Product vessels, accessible pipe connections and transfer pumps form a controlled buffer between fruit-processing machines.
Product holding and pumped transfer
Treat the product
A skid-mounted heating, holding and cooling arrangement with product vessels, tube sections, valves and local controls.
Continuous indirect product heat treatment
Concentrate
A vessel, exchanger and pump arrangement for removing water from a specified juice or pulp stream.
Vacuum evaporation with a defined product circulation path
Fill & close
A bag-filling arrangement with guarded filling stations, a central control enclosure and roller conveyors for supported bags in drums.
Controlled product transfer through a compatible bag fitment
Clean equipment
A cleaning-service assembly with a vessel, pump, heater, valve connections and instruments for defined closed product circuits.
Circulating cleaning services through a selected supply and return path
Selection inputs
Selection guides for this fruit
Connected process routes
Equipment combination
Build a pulp route around fruit preparation, two-stage recovery, controlled transfer and treatment that preserves the intended texture.
Explore the equipment route →Equipment combination
Combine fruit preparation and the right recovery method with clarification, air control and product treatment where the juice specification requires them.
Explore the equipment route →Equipment combination
Connect evaporation, concentrate handling, thermal processing and bag filling around a defined feed and finished-product specification.
Explore the equipment route →Fruit questions
Mango · Pineapple · Guava · Passion fruit · Papaya. The family is a starting point: variety, maturity and the condition entering the machine still need to be stated.
Washing and inspection are followed by the preparation that suits the fruit. Mango has a stone; pineapple and guava bring peel and fibrous material; passion fruit brings a seed and pulp structure. These are not interchangeable preparation duties. A pulper recovers an edible pulp fraction; a press targets expressed liquid. Fibrous material and seeds affect screen loading, reject collection and the acceptable product texture. Review the actual working parts, not only a nominal aperture.
Species, variety, maturity and peel, stone or seed condition; Preparation steps already available and the material entering recovery; Wanted product: juice, cloudy juice, puree, concentrate or base; Fibre, particle and viscosity limits through every downstream passage; Rate basis, package and the complete treatment boundary. The likely equipment duties can then be reviewed against the actual product and supply boundary.
One fruit, one machine or a connected section
Start with the fruit, its condition and the product. Existing equipment, a required rate and package details can be added when available.
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