How does a milk homogenizer work?

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In the dairy industry, the taste, stability and nutritional value of milk are the key to winning the market. The high pressure homogenizer is the "magician" behind the scenes who makes the milk quality leap forward. With its strong technical strength, it has brought subversive changes to milk processing and has become the core equipment for dairy companies to enhance their competitiveness.

The working principle of the milk homogenizer is full of technology. It puts milk under extremely high pressure (usually 10-30MPa) to force milk to pass through a narrow gap at high speed. In this process, the fat globules, protein particles, etc. in the milk are violently sheared, collided and cavitated, and the originally larger particles are broken into smaller and more uniform particles. This microscopic change fundamentally reshapes the physical structure of milk. In milk processing, it is widely used and critical. For pure milk, it can make the fat globules evenly dispersed to avoid stratification after standing; when making yogurt, it can make the fermentation bacteria and milk ingredients more fully integrated, making the yogurt texture more delicate and smooth; when producing modulated milk, it can make the added nutrients perfectly combined with milk to ensure product stability.

The benefits of using a milk high pressure homogenizer are obvious. First, the taste of milk is significantly improved. The processed milk is more delicate and mellow, smooth and grainless, and can bring consumers an ultimate taste experience. Secondly, it enhances the stability of milk, effectively prevents fat from floating and protein from precipitating, prolongs the shelf life of the product, and reduces losses during transportation and storage. Furthermore, it improves the absorption rate of nutrients, and small particles are easier to digest and absorb by the human body, especially suitable for children, the elderly and other people with weak gastrointestinal functions. Compared with traditional processing methods, high pressure homogenizer have outstanding advantages. Traditional methods make it difficult to achieve uniform crushing of particles, and product quality is unstable. It can accurately control pressure and flow to ensure consistent quality of each batch of products. At the same time, efficient processing capacity can meet the needs of large-scale production and improve enterprise production efficiency. In addition, the equipment is easy to operate, highly automated, and reduces labor costs and operating errors. Weishu milk homogenizer, with its excellent performance, provides strong support for dairy companies to create high-quality products. Choosing it means choosing to inject stronger market competitiveness into the product and stand out in the fierce dairy market.

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Weishu Machinery Technology (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. is a high-tech enterprise specializing in the design, development, production and sales of food and beverage machinery and intelligent robots. The company mainly produces complete food and beverage production lines, tubular sterilizers, plate-type ultra-high temperature sterilizers, water treatment equipment, spray sterilizers, inverted bottle sterilizers, beverage production combination machines and other series of packaging machinery. The company has always taken providing customers with value-creating products as our mission, and has now become a model for the food machinery industry to continuously pursue the improvement and enhancement of mechanical concepts and performance!