The Manufacture of Chocolate and other Cacao PreparationsZipperer, Paul
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The Manufacture of Chocolate and other Cacao Preparations
Zipperer, Paul
Cacao; Chocolate; Cocoa
The condenser =b= consists of a coil of pipes over which a current of
cold water is kept flowing and the compressed carbonic acid vapour,
passing from the compressor into these pipes, is there cooled and
condensed by the surrounding water, so as to be transferred back to
the refrigerator through a valve fitted to it for that purpose. The
outer vessel of the condenser is constructed of cast-iron, in one piece
with the compressor frame. These cooling arrangements are constructed
either with or without mechanical ventilators. In figures 63 a and 63
b the compressing pump and condenser are represented as placed on the
ground floor, while the refrigerator is situated in the cellar space
lying beside them and at a lower level, in such a manner that both the
systems of cooling pipes are not situated upon the roof of the cellar,
but run along it at regular distances parallel to the side walls of the
cellar. The compressor and condenser form one apparatus and the former
is driven by a steam engine.
In the cooling cellar, the refrigerator is generally fixed to the walls
in such a way that the warm chocolate, taken into the cellar, can be at
once placed upon the stages formed by the system of cooling pipes, and
so there is some advantage in having the system of cooling pipes fitted
along the roof of the cellar.
The machine which is diagrammed in fig. 60 possesses an hourly
output of some 70000 calories, measured in salt water at -5 ° C. The
compressor is driven directly by an electric motor, and a stirring
apparatus is put in motion by the crankshaft of the compressor, the two
being connected by an intermediate gearing.
Wegelin and Hübner put out cooling plants with salt water cooling,
smaller and medium sized plants are on the contrary provided with
so-called direct evaporation.
The diagram in fig. 61 shows an air-cooler as built of late by Esher,
Wyss & Co. for chocolate cooling plants.
These air coolers are especially used for direct evaporation of
carbonic acid gas. They consist of three groups of ribbed wrought-iron
pipes, the whole constituting a system supported in a frame work of
U-shaped and angular iron. The separate tubes are welded and bent
together. The ribbed bodies are in themselves square shaped, and apart
from the tube opening have a nozzle introduced in their centre, which
pressed firmly against the press pipe effects a favourable transmission
of heat in the case of large surface areas of the support, the more so
as the tubes are square shaped.
Among the numerous advantages of this machine can be numbered the
abolition of the refrigerator and brine pump, prompt and instantaneous
refrigeration when the machine is started, and ease of control, as a
flange connection occurs immediately in front of the machine.
[Illustration: Fig. 61.]
A wrought iron trough is fitted up underneath the air-cooler to catch
the water drops. Above, and to the left, the three systems of the
air-cooler are connected by means of a catch.
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