Before purchasing freeze drying machine for fruit, meat and herbal processing, calculating required daily lyophilization processing capacity is the first key step to select matched freeze dryer or industrial lyophilizer, preventing insufficient equipment load or excessive redundant investment.
The core calculation index of vacuum freeze dryer single batch capacity is total loading weight of all material trays inside drying chamber, calculated based on frozen raw material weight before freeze-drying treatment.
Single batch loading weight of bench-top freeze dryer ranges from hundreds of grams to several kilograms, only applicable for small food sample lyophilization trial, unable to support continuous mass food production.
Medium and large industrial freeze dryer single batch load ranges from tens to hundreds of kilograms; multiply single batch weight by daily operable lyophilization cycles to get total daily food raw material processing output of the lyophilizer.
Food factory owners should reserve extra 20% spare capacity space during demand calculation, coping with future raw material output expansion and extended freeze-drying cycles of high-sugar, high-fat sticky food raw materials.
Scientific daily capacity calculation helps food factories select cost-effective vacuum freeze dryer, reasonably balance daily fruit, meat and herbal lyophilization production demand and freeze dryer equipment procurement investment cost.
