Citrus / Orange / Lemon Processing

Sun Engineers food technologies develops integrated solutions for the production of
Concentrate
Juice
Pulp
Essential Oils
Pulp Dehydration
Other complementary lines to process citrus by product

Sun Engineers food technologies supplies equipment and process engineering for the processing of fresh citrus into juice, concentrate and several other products obtained from the by-products left over from juice production essence oils, press liquor, citrus molasses dried peel.
Citrus processing is challenging as the goal is to maintain the fresh fruit qualities as untouched as possible and yet obtain the maximum yield out of the citrus. Orange and other citrus processing plants should be located near to the citrus growing areas so that the fresh fruit can be processed as soon as possible after harvesting. As temperatures in citrus growing areas tend to be high and fruit deteriorates quickly. Consumer citrus juice plants can be located anywhere and next to consumer markets as juice can be made out of concentrate.
Juice is the most important product to be obtained from citrus orange by-products – pulp and peel represent about 50% of the oranges and they can be further processed into other marketable products.

There are two types of juices not from concentrate to define those juices that come from fresh citrus and frozen concentrate orange juice to define those juices that come from citrus concentrate Sun Engineers supplies processing lines for the transformation of citruses into both types of juices.
The general process could be described as the following. After the washing and grading citruses are cut in half and pressed in different machines according to their size. Peels are evacuated on one side and juice on the other side. Cells are removed by passing the juice through a refiner in order to discard solid particles.
After it has been clarified by centrifugation the citruses juice for concentrate is concentrated by falling film evaporators and then packed into aseptic bags for industrial distribution and storage. On the other hand, not from concentrate juice is directly pasteurized and stored in aseptic storage.

Complete sets of Citrus / Orange / Lemon Production Line:
1. Silo
2. Feed Conveyor
3. Fruit Washing Machine
4. Brushing
5. Sizing
6. Juice Extracting Machine-Cup Type / Roller Type
7. Depulping / Enzymatic inactivation
8. Decanter or Centrifuge
9. Juice Evaporator
10. Juice Sterilization & Aseptic Filling Machine / Juice Bottle Filling
11. Essential Oil recovery