Author(s)

Bo Wang ¹, Haifeng Chen ¹, Yanlong Hu ¹, Bojun Chen ¹, Bohao Zhang ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ College of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Shaanxi University of Science and Technology, Xi'an, China

Corresponding Author

Haifeng Chen

ABSTRACT

To address issues such as low automation in the explosion puffing drying process for fruits and vegetables, a new explosion puffing equipment employing a multi-stage variable temperature and pressure differential method was designed. The equipment utilizes the gravity of the material and the opening and closing of heated knife valves to move the material sequentially from top to bottom through each stage of the puffing chambers, starting from the storage chamber. It employs a heat-conducting oil heating system and heated knife valves to jointly heat each stage of the puffing chambers, and uses vacuum equipment and a gas supply system to control the pressure of the entire equipment to achieve multiple puffing. This equipment can be combined with vacuum belt dryer and other equipment to form an automated puffing drying equipment. This research provides valuable reference for the improvement of explosion puffing equipment.

KEYWORDS

Explosion; Multi-stage; Automatic; Puffing chamber

CITE THIS PAPER

Bo Wang, Haifeng Chen, Yanlong Hu, Bojun Chen, Bohao Zhang, Design of Multi-stage Explosion Puffing Equipment for Fruit and Vegetable. Journal of Engineering Mechanics and Machinery (2024) Vol. 9: 167-172. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/jemm.2024.090220.

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