Enerquip has been building sanitary stainless steel heating and cooling equipment since 1985. Top food and beverage producers, and the engineering firms that support them, trust Enerquip for their critical heating and cooling needs.
“The process and functionality of the equipment and people are World Class and MADE “ONLY” IN WISCONSIN. I have only compliments and satisfaction working with Enerquip.” – Jason Schultz, New Glarus Brewing Co.
With decades of experience, Enerquip’s resourceful team can provide you with sizing and design selection assistance to specifically meet your process needs. Enerquip’s skilled sales engineers use state-of-the-art modeling software to recommend the right equipment for each heating or cooling application.
Process Equipment for Food & Beverage
Shell and Tube Heat Exchangers: Stock and custom heat exchangers are widely used in the food and beverage industry for various applications such as heating, cooling, pasteurization, and sterilization of product.
Vapor Condensers: Vapor condensers cool a vapor to the point where it condenses back into a liquid. This liquid can then be recycled back into the production process.
Waste Heat Economizers: Don’t let valuable heat escape your facility. From increasing efficiency to conserving resources and reducing waste, waste heat recovery can make a big difference for your facility.
Thermal Fluid Heaters: In a closed loop system, these industrial heaters transfer heat energy to a target material or process.
Sanitary Bare Coil Tank Coils: These coils are used to heat, cool, and regulate the temperature of tanks filled with stored materials.
Bayonet Heaters: These heaters heat product while being completely immersed in a tank fluids.
Steam Generators: Thermal fluid steam generators are a perfect solution for customers that need steam for their facility but don’t want to spend the capital for a large-scale boiler operation.
Heat Sensitive Products Require Custom Heat Exchanger Solutions
Heat plays a critical role in the food, beverage, and brewing industries, influencing both quality and taste. Enerquip’s experts can help you select the right heat exchanger for your heat-sensitive products. Our team understands which products require special care and the best methods to heat them, preventing burning or crystallization while preserving taste and consistency.
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Proper sizing of your exchanger is essential when working with heat-sensitive products. Heat treatment in food and beverages is necessary for reasons like inactivating bacteria and extending shelf life, and it requires rapid heat transfer to be effective.
To protect the taste and nutritional value during this rapid process, our design experts can help you customize your exchanger to the precise size your product needs, rather than selecting one based on surface area alone.
Learn how an Enerquip heat exchanger helped a food packager put soup on the table.
Applications for Sanitary Heat Exchangers
Enerquip is a leading provider of sanitary stainless-steel shell and tube heat exchangers, commonly used in the following applications:
Brewing
Whether you’re just starting out or perfecting your brewing process, high-quality equipment is essential. Our engineers can help you assess if a shell and tube heat exchanger is right for your brewery and design a custom solution to fit your specific needs.
Just as premium ingredients elevate your beer’s flavor, color, and aroma, the quality of your equipment plays a vital role. Subpar equipment can affect your final product’s consistency and taste.
When choosing a heat exchanger, stainless steel is a top choice for its sanitary properties, resistance to fouling, and durability. It’s also crucial to partner with engineers who understand the importance of ASME compliance. All of Enerquip’s shell and tube heat exchangers are built to ASME standards and come with the necessary code stamp.
Product Heaters & Coolers
Enerquip heat exchangers are essential for heating and cooling a wide range of products, including liquids, creams, yogurts, syrups, and more complex applications like chocolate melting, whey protein concentrate production, and other viscous, heat-sensitive products.
A common application is pasteurization, a heat treatment used to reduce harmful bacteria in food and extend shelf life. Products like milk, cream, yogurt, ice cream, liquid and dried eggs, and sometimes meat, are often pasteurized using steam or hot water in shell and tube exchangers. These exchangers may be used on their own or as part of an HTST (high-temperature short-time) system, sometimes in conjunction with a hold tube.
After pasteurization, the product is rapidly cooled to maintain texture, flavor, and prepare it for packaging.
Clean-in-Place Heaters
Enerquip heat exchangers are the trusted choice of leading Clean-in-Place (CIP) suppliers, known for their quality, reliability, and ability to meet stringent sanitary requirements and delivery deadlines.
Why CIP Systems are Essential in Food and Beverage Processing
To meet sanitation standards, food and beverage facilities often rely on CIP systems. These systems clean tanks, pipes, vessels, and equipment without disassembly, removing product residues and microorganisms. After each batch, equipment used for heat-treated food (like milk or sauces) must be thoroughly flushed to prevent cross-contamination and ensure efficient heat exchange for future batches.
CIP systems use steam or hot water to heat cleaning solutions. Enerquip shell and tube heat exchangers heat these solutions as they circulate through the system. Our stainless steel CIP heaters are designed to the same sanitary standards and surface finishes as the equipment being cleaned.