Simply Tropical products are homogenized to improve product properties such as color, consistency, taste, creaming stability, creaminess and mouthfeel.

The product active ingredients are subjected to intense mechanical and thermal stresses. The two operations result in significant product quality improvement and process intensification.

The basic idea of high pressure homogenizer is to pressurize an emulsion premix up to several hundred bars and then pump it through a disruption system.

Here, the pressure built up by the pump is expanded resulting in specific flow conditions used for droplet disruption. The disruption systems which are available at Simply Tropical is a valve type.

The design of these valves is based on local flow conditions and the fabrication of the valve is realized with micro process engineering tools.

Mainly piston pumps serve as high pressure pumps. Our in-house homogenizer comes with four piston pumps. A single piston pump has the disadvantage that the pressure and the volume stream vary extremely over time scale, which results in a pulsation of the stresses on the product.

To reduce the pulsation, several pistons are combined phase-shifted. The Flat Valves also known as radial diffusors are used to control the different pistons usually not influencing the quality of the emulsion.

The fundamental idea is to reduce the flow diameter with a valve plunger which is pushed to a valve seat forming a small gap. The fluid enters the valve via a central hole in the valve seat pumped by the high-pressure pump.