Sanitary Heat Exchangers for Man’s Best Friends

In the pet care industry, precise temperature control is vital to maintaining product safety and nutritional value. Key processes that depend on reliable heating and cooling include mixing, pasteurization, dehydration, emulsifying, filling, sterilizing, and waste heat recovery.

Enerquip’s shell and tube heat exchangers are essential for manufacturing a wide range of pet care products, such as dry and wet pet foods, shampoos, supplements, pest control treatment solutions, and more. They enable efficient heat transfer, ensuring uniform consistency and optimal product quality.

 

Key Applications & Design Features for Pet Care Product Manufacturing

Enerquip heat exchangers are versatile and provide reliable temperature control for a variety of pet care manufacturing processes, such as:

Pure Water Heating and Cooling

Pure water is a cornerstone of pet care manufacturing, especially for food preparation and equipment cleaning. Enerquip heat exchangers help optimize these processes by:

  • Distillation: Vaporizing water to remove contaminants before re-condensing it into pure water.
  • Reverse Osmosis: Ensuring water is free of dissolved salts and organic compounds, with proper flow and pressure maintained to prevent membrane fouling.
  • Storage and Recirculation: Maintaining temperature control during water recirculation to prevent microbial growth and cool it to safe storage conditions.
Other Heating and Cooling Applications for Pet Care

Enerquip heat exchangers are also used in various pet food and pet care applications:

  • Wet Pet Food Preparation: Heat mixtures of meat, vegetables, and grains to prepare for canning.
  • Dry Pet Food Cooling: Cool kibble after extrusion to preserve its shape and quality.
  • Condensing: Remove volatile solvents by cooling vaporized mixtures into liquid form.
  • Pasteurization: Safely pasteurize pet food products while preserving their nutritional value.
  • Trim Cooling: Counteract unintentional heat added by pumps or valves.
  • Waste Heat Recovery: Recycle excess heat for other production processes.

With their robust designs and ability to handle extreme conditions, Enerquip’s shell and tube exchangers provide unmatched efficiency and hygiene for pet care and pet food production.

Standard Sanitary Shell and Tube Heat Exchanger Design for Pet Care Products
  • Straight tube or U-tube configuration
  • 304L stainless steel tube side material
  • Welded, bright annealed tubing
  • 40Ra exterior finish

Some pet food and pet care manufacturers are choosing to take their equipment to the next level with high-purity pharmaceutical-grade exchangers. These features include double tube sheets, 316L stainless steel or higher alloy materials, electropolish tube side finish, passivation of product surfaces, insulation jackets and more. Learn more about Enerquip’s pharma-grade shell and tube heat exchangers.

Advantages of Shell and Tube for Product Heating and Cooling

Shell and tube heat exchangers have several advantages over other types of heat exchangers for product heating and cooling in the sanitary industries, including:

Surface Finish: They can be designed with stainless steel and other alloy surfaces that are polished to sanitary and high-purity finishes. This makes them resistant to product build-up and easier to clean.

Viscosity: Shell and tubes can process products that are more viscous than many other types of exchangers. This is important for products like animal food and pet shampoos.

Visibility: They allow easier visual verification that surfaces are cleaned than a spiral exchanger or plate and frame exchanger, since surfaces can be viewed either through a sight glass or with the use of a borescope.

Higher Operating Temperatures: Shell and tube exchangers can operate safely at much higher (and lower) temperatures than other designs and can be designed to work under vacuum or high-pressure conditions.

Variety of Configurations: Shell and tube heat exchangers can be designed in a variety of configurations, such as single pass or multi-pass straight tube units, or multi-pass U-tube units.

Variety of Installation: They can be designed to operate horizontally, inclined, or vertically depending on the space available for installation.

Customization: There are many options available for surface finishes, mounting supports, insulation jackets and process and utility connection types.

Choose Enerquip for Your Pet Care Processing Needs

With decades of experience in process heating and cooling, Enerquip is your trusted partner for ensuring the safety and quality of pet care products. Our shell and tube heat exchangers provide efficient, reliable solutions that meet the demanding needs of the pet care industry.

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