Carbonators, Premix units and Nitrogenators

Carbonators and nitrogenators. Enterprise Tondelli supply free standing carbonators that can be used for ready to drink carbonation and also in breweries for trim carbonation of the beer before packaging. The units can also be used a nitrogenators for use with keg filling or nitro beer filling too with an additional connection. CO2 dosing is with mass flow meter to ensure accurate carbonation. There is also the possibility to have CO2 dosing varying depending upon the product temperature to give the best result. Additionally they can have on board trim chilling by heat exchanger meaning you only need to chill the product at carbonation point pre filling rather than typing to reduce the temperature of a large volume of liquid in a tank thus saving time and cooling capacity. Our smallest carbonators are from 1,000 litres/hr upwards and come skid mounted with stainless steel control panel for plug and play operation.

Premix units (de-aerators, carbonators and blenders) . For production of larger quantities of carbonated soft drinks a premix unit is used. This blends syrup and water together and carbonates as well in one unit thus reducing syrup room space. To ensure the best results incoming water is usually de-aerated using vacuum to make carbonation easier. Additionally on some juice products the presence of air can reduce shelf life and impair colour retention. Typically this would be 1:-1:7 although other ratios are possible. Syrup dosing is with mass flow meters as well and a serpentine with static mixer is used for blending. Water dosing is control is with magnetic flow meters. No mechanical proportioning pumps! Final product is stored in a stabilisation tank with high and low level probes to avoid filler micro stoppages. Optional units include automatic brix monitoring and adjustment along with the same for CO levels. As the units are no longer very mechanical the addition of a remote support modem makes the operation very easy. Premix units can be from 1,000 litres to 40,000 l/hr.

Blenders. Sometimes of course you may only want to blend without the need for carbonation or de-aeration and Enterprise Tondelli can supply these too with on board Cip sets if required for a more compact solution.

Over the years we have supplied a wide variety of units from 1,000 l/hr beer carbonator in Norfolk to 25,000 l/hr premix units for the far east.