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By: Sayed Mohammad Naim KHALID April 2012

Pomegrate Processing Fresh Cut Juice

Introduction

Pomegranate with scientific name of (Punica granatum L.; Punicaceae) Its pulp is produced in huge amounts in many parts of the world ; production of this by- product exceeds 120,000 t/year. The pomegranate pulp by- product consists mainly of peels, stems, and seeds and accounts for about 400-450 g/kg of the weight of the Pomegranate processed into sauce, concentrate and juice

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Reception
Fresh pomegranate are recieved from the contract famers

Pomegranates are fed to the plant from the outside concrete tank or direclty from cases or bags

Washing

Disinfection is also done at this stage Due to huge quantity pomegranate are washed by immersion

Sorting

Size sorting is done by machine

Quality sorting notably for decayed and affected products manual sorting is done

Desheling
The shell and grains are mechanically separated

Drying

Grains are relatively dried by air before packaging

Filling and weighing

The weighing take place and the packages are filled in

Sealing

The packages are sealed to prevent further drying and contramination

Final packages product

The product should be packaged in bright and perforated packs

Overviw of the line

Juice produciton

Reception

Fresh Pomegranates are fed to the plant from the outside concrete tank or directly from cases or bags.

Washing

Sorting

Desheling

Membrane press

This improves the juice quality substanAally as the product has a strongly reduced contaminaAon with tannin and seed fragments.

The squeezing system we supply is a membrane press, which has the big advantage of providing a very so? pressing.

Filtration
AddiAonal claricaAon can be achieved by a plate lter.

The colloidal and mucilaginous substances in the pomegranate juice are taken out by vacuum rotaAng lters with Kieselguhr pre-coat.

As alternaAve to the vacuum lter ultraltraAon can be used.

Concentration

View of a plate evaporaAon group, double eect model.Capacity: 2.000 l/h of evaporated water.

Flashterm - Plate evaporators designed for the treatment of clear or low viscosity juices. This concentra<on group can be equipped with a thermo compressor and an aroma recovery group.

Sterilisation

Sterilash - Plate sterilizers designed for the steriliza<on of concentrated pomegranate juice and other juices or natural purees.

Aseptic filling

FILLING IN CONSUMER BAGSIn coopera<on with reliable partners Bertuzzi oers a wide range of lling lines also for lling into boVles, cartons or doypacks.

C.A.F. - Compact Asep<c FillerSingle-head or double-head compact asep<c llerdesigned with opportune accessories for the lling of 3-20 liter bags and 200 liter bags in drums.The machine equipped with 1 lling-head is suitable for lling liquid, dense and viscous products, and even low acid products. The machine equipped with 2 lling-head is suitable for lling products containing pieces.

References

http://www.orbitrail.net/pomegranates.html (13,04,12) http://www.bertuzzi.it/cms/index.php? option=com_content&task=view&id=15&Itemid=63 (13,04,12) http://ressources.ciheam.org/om/pdf/a42/00600278.pdf ( 15,04,12)