Engineering Design and Economics of Air Conditioning in Florida’s Newest Sectionizing Plant

Most of you have probably noticed the new addition to the Kraft Citrus Products Division Plant here in Lakeland. This is their new sectionizing plant for the preparation of fruit salad, which has only been in operation for a few weeks. Paper published with permission.

High Temperature Short Time Evaporation

Before 1935, orange juice had been made into concentrate in California and elsewhere, using milk evaporators. The concentrate produced was for soft drink bases, but was not good enough to be reconstituted for drinking. Paper published with permission.

Automated Control of Fruit Flow and Pulp Washing

Automated control is an old story in the concentrate industry and is typified by the normal evaporator control systems, brix blenders, etc. that are installed in all of the concentrate plants. The phase of automation to be discussed here concerns the control of the rate of oranges being conveyed from the storage bins to and through the juicing operation. The purpose of this control system is to allow the extraction, finishing and pulp wash processes to take place at continuous uniform rates in direct and continued relationship to evaporator requirements. Paper published with permission.

Modern Fresh Fruit Handling, Adams Packing Association, Inc.

Things are not always what they seem to be. The assigned title of this paper would seem to limit the subject to the new Adams packinghouse. Nevertheless, it is necessary to first consider the harvesting methods selected. The main reason for improving packing methods is to reduce costs, and in the fresh fruit business today opportunities for cost reduction are principally between the tree and the packinghouse. Moreover the packer has some reasonable control over his choice of field handling methods, but inside the packinghouse his choice of methods is severely limited by the policies of buyers and the lack of any combined policy on container standardization by the fresh fruit industry in general. This is particularly true in Florida as contrasted, for example, with the California citrus industry. Paper published with permission.

Sargeant Electronic Evaporator

The Sargeant Radio-Frequency Evaporator is a radically new approach to the concentration of citrus juices above the level of 54° Brix. With your indulgence, I would like to explain this principle by using various flow diagrams. Paper published with permission.

Rough Handling of Filled Cans as Related to Leakage Type Spoilage

Spoilage occurs occasionally in canned foods filled hot or thermally processed where the causative organisms are non-heat resistant types. Since these non-heat resistant organisms would not survive the heat treatment received by the product, it is obvious that the contamination entered the can subsequent to processing. In the industry, this is referred to as “leakage-type” spoilage. Paper published with permission.

Automatic Lubrication

In the world competitive profit squeeze operation of almost every business venture today one must be ever aware of every area wherein an economic improvement in methods and procedures can be attained. Lubrication methods and procedures — the life blood of machinery — have since just before World War II come under careful scrutiny for improvement and some startling results have been achieved. Paper published with permission.