Food industry is now increasing with the rate of more than 11% YOY, contributing to 32% of total food requirement, this increase is all due to increasing urbanisation and working female workforce and reduction in cultivating land and workforce. Food industry requires huge amount of heating requirement at different stage from cultivation to consumption. We provide solution to various needs of food industry with our heating /drying equipment, we have over 40 years’ experience in providing high quality heating solution. Some of the common application of microwave in food industry are:

Blanching :

Objective of blanching process is to inactivate or retard bacterial and enzyme action, which could otherwise cause rapid degeneration of quality. Blanching is carried out by exposing the entire product to high temperature for very short period of time directly to fruits and vegetables. Traditional blanching method were done by the means of steam or hot water, Steam blanching usually take longer time , water blanching is faster as compared to steam however it results in great loss in terms of nutrients of food. Kerone’s microwave based blanching systems are on other hand are very efficient, advantages that microwave blanching offers are constant volumetric heating, nominal oven temperature gradients, and no blanching residual products, reduced energy costs, and reduced processing time. Feature of our Microwave system provided by Kerone:

• Working life is more than conventional heating systems
• Quick and Easy installation
• Lesser maintenance
• Condensed construction
• Accurately designed and engineered
• Hassle-free operational
• Highly durable
• Energy and Cost efficient
• Consume lesser power
• Efficient performance
• Fit to pocket

Advantages of Microwave system:

• Fast and even heating
• Selective heating
• Direct employment of large-sized feedstock’s
• Waste reduction and material recovery
• Better production quality
• New materials and products
• Energy efficiency
• Overall cost effectiveness/savings
• Improved process control
• Ability to operate from an electrical source

Pasteurization and Sterilization :

Pasteurization and sterilization both share the common object to preserve the food for longer period of time, however the basic difference between both are pasteurization and sterilization is that pasteurization is very common with the liquid form of the food produces and it tries to eliminate the pathogenic (disease-producing) microorganisms, to inactivate spoilage-causing enzymes, and to reduce or destroy spoilage microorganisms where are in sterilization tries to remove all type of microorganisms. Application of microwave in the field of food pasteurization and sterilization had faced lot of challenges at the frequency of 915 MHz, microwave based systems had faced issues of non-uniform energy distribution and unpredictable response due to water contains of food. Kerone’s microwave based pasteurization and sterilization systems developed in association with the EMitech, Italy had overcame hindrances faces and becoming popular for its response time, quality of produced, efficiency of output, control system to achieve desirable output.

Feature of our MW system provided by Kerone:

• Low and easy maintenance
• Compressed assembly
• Speedy and Easy installation
• Accurately premeditated and engineered
• Hassle-free working
• Longer service life
• Rugged construction
• High toughness
• Energy and Cost efficient
• Power saving
• Competent performance
• Fit to pocket

Advantages of Microwave system:

• Fast and even heating
• Selective heating
• Direct employment of large-sized feedstocks
• Waste reduction and material retrieval
• Better production quality
• New materials and products
• Energy efficiency
• Overall cost effectiveness/savings
• Improved process control
• Ability to operate from an electrical source

Thawing and Tempering :

Thawing and tempering is process that commonly used for storages of food produces for longer time in frozen state. Taking out food from the frozen state to unfrozen state is thawing or tempering. Its required temper/thaw the frozen food item properly before cooking to avoid the overcooking (burning) the skin of food and undercooking(not cooking) the inner portion of the food. The conventional thawing requires large space and longer time, sometime this process may depreciate biological property of the food. Microwave offers advantages over the conventional thawing due to its property that it heats from the centre i.e. within the food, hence the inners part gets defreeze first and it penetrates to outer surface very rapidly. Kerone’s microwave based thawing and tempering systems is unique as its provide high control in terms energy consumption, provide high product quality, and lower time of processing. Our microwave thawing are designed to achieve high controlled microwave emission which makes it even suitable for the items such as corned beef, whole chicken and etc. Feature of our Microwave system provided by Kerone:

• Working life is more than conventional heating systems
• Quick and Easy installation
• Lesser maintenance
• Condensed construction
• Accurately designed and engineered
• Hassle-free operational
• Highly durable
• Energy and Cost efficient
• Consume lesser power
• Efficient performance
• Fit to pocket

Advantages of Microwave system:

• Fast and even heating
• Selective heating
• Direct employment of large-sized feedstocks
• Treatment of non-homogeneous wastes
• No emission hazardous substances
• Better production quality
• New materials and products
• Energy efficiency
• Overall cost effectiveness/savings
• Improved process control
• Ability to operate from an electrical source

Drying:

Drying is one of the thermal processes, intended to reduce the moisture content of food materials, and it’s one of the time-and energy-consuming processes in the food industry. Drying is the inevitable process in food industry as the foods consist of large amount of water contains and same needs to dried for preservation or utilization as various places, the conventional way of drying from steam requires large time, space and energy to operate. The mechanism for drying with microwave energy is moderately different from that of regular drying. In conventional drying, moisture is initially removed from the surface to inner part. Whereas, in microwave drying, heat is generated directly in the interior of material creating a higher heat transfer and thus a much faster temperature rise than in conventional heating. Kerone’s Microwave Industrial dryers can comply with drying requisite of almost every types of food input, those who demands high level off accuracy, lowest response time, environmental friendly solution, at higher efficiency level and higher accuracy. We provide high range of custom build drying solutions. Feature of our Microwave system provided by Kerone:

• Functional life of system is large
• Reduced maintenance time and cost
• Speedy and Stress-free installation
• Rugged construction
• Condensed construction
• Accurately designed and engineered
• Hassle-free operational
• Highly durable
• Energy and Cost efficient
• Consume lesser power
• Efficient performance
• Fit to pocket

Advantages of Microwave system:

• Fast and even heating
• Selective heating
• Direct employment of large-sized feedstocks
• Better production quality
• Environmental friendly solution
• Energy efficiency
• Overall cost effectiveness/savings
• Highly controllable
• Save large sum of energy

Pre-cooking :

Pre-cooking process is performed to reduce the preparation time for the food consumption product for the consumer. Precooking is recommended for many foods such a cereal flours, parboiling of rice, bacon and dried meats such as beef jerky which is precooked to a safe internal temperature before drying. The combined benefits of convenience, health and variety have increased the market of precooked products. Kerone’s microwave based heating system is built to achieve the controlled environment that can help in accomplishing precook food, the microwave offers advantages such that the total time of preparation is very nominal and can be done in without wasting any time. Microwave heating is found to be an ideal system for cooking bacon compared to conventional grilling. It is reported that most of the bacon usage in food services is precooked in microwave ovens. Microwave heating of bacon produces better structure with less shrinkage (Ahmed and Ramaswamy, 2007). Microwave heating has also found a possible application in precooking of various cereal products which helps in treating the starch, basically to reduce its gelatinization time during final preparation of the food product. Feature of our Microwave system provided by Kerone:

• Working life is more than conventional heating systems
• Quick and Easy installation
• Lesser maintenance
• Condensed construction
• Accurately designed and engineered
• Hassle-free operational
• Highly durable
• Energy and Cost efficient
• Consume lesser power
• Efficient performance
• Fit to pocket

Advantages of Microwave system:

• Fast and even heating
• Selective heating
• Direct employment of large-sized feedstocks
• No waste generation
• Clean solution
• Improved production calibre
• New materials and products
• Energy efficiency
• Cost effective solution
• Improved process control
• Ability to operate from an electrical source

Sterilization and disinfestation of food, grains and seeds :

Sterilization and disinfestation of food and food related items has become indispensable due to increase in the demand that the food and related items needs to be preserved for longer time as the demand has increased and production is scare. Traditional methods of preservation has failed due changing environmental conditions, heating based sterilization and disinfestation is becoming popular but the conventional heating systems and not able to provide the desired result. Hence, at Kerone we have done strategic collaboration with the Emitech, Italy to deliver the best in class microwave based heating solutions. Microwave based solution provides the Environmental sustainability, efficiency and being the safest physical method, the key principal operates behind is the exploitation of heat effects of electromagnetic energy for destroying all microorganisms by accomplishing their fatal Temperatures. Microwave System developed by Kerone and Emitech can be used to disinfest all products of vegetable origin infested by pests such as Cereals (rice included), Seeds like pine-nuts, Legumes (beans, chickpeas, lentils), and Dry fruits (dates, currants). Major causes of loss of the agro food are Post Harvest phase and in Storage, Biological Infestations which begin on field (significantly depreciate a lot of products in a very short time). The decreasing cultivatable land and increasing demand of food due to ever increasing population has resulted that food safety should be taken at most priority. Features of our Microwave based system are

• Speed (shorter response time)
• Ease of handling (no chemical processing involved
• Can handle varied type of articles
• It does not produce polluting gases or toxic residuals

Advantages – Kerones’ Microwave sterilization and disinfestation systems:

• Full efficacy: 100% mortality rates on pests in all life stages (eggs, larvae, pupae and adults).
• No significant change in quality: physical characteristics in wood and nutritional characteristics in food
• Absence of polluting effects harmful to operators and the environment
• Plant origin products free from exotic pest scan be exported without any phytosanitary concern in response to the ongoing FAO-IPPC needs
• No toxic residues in the end products
• Energy saving

Application of Microwave: