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BAL Batch Alkalizer Liquor

Treatment of cocoa liquor

Advantages

  • Improved Cocoa Liquor Quality

    Enhancing cocoa liquor quality through debacterization and alkalization: microbial load – including harmful bacteria like Salmonella, mold, and TCP—is reduced, while alkalization adjusts the color.

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  • Flavor Enhancement and Reduction of Undesirable Compounds

    Removing excess moisture, acetic acid, and unwanted volatiles under vacuum improves the flavor profile, especially in cocoa liquor with high acetic acid content.

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  • Cost-Effective Integration

    The system requires low capital expenditure (CAPEX) and can easily be retrofitted into existing production lines, enabling improved product quality with minimal investment.

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Built to solve. Designed to deliver.

The Heidenauer BAL Batch Alkalizer Liquor provides an effective and traditional method of treating cocoa liquor, serving as an alternative to nib alkalization. Designed to debacterize and alkalize cocoa liquor while significantly reducing downstream processing times, it combines a BMD twin-shaft batch mixer with an integrated vacuum pump.

Specially aligned mixing and kneading elements ensure uniform blending by directing the liquor toward the center of each trough. Heating under vacuum conditions removes excess moisture, acetic acid, and undesirable volatiles – resulting in a cleaner, more balanced cocoa liquor.

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Versions

 BAL 3000
Batch size3,000
Throughput [kg/h]1,000

SOFTWARE

Productivity is the measure of all manufacturing processes, including food processing. PROBAT control solutions ensure that machines and plants all over the world produce coffee, cocoa, chocolate and snack foods of the highest quality day after day - with optimum performance, maximum energy efficiency and plant availability.

SERVICE

For PROBAT, the customer and his needs are always in the focus. Constant communication is the key to our success. This also applies to our service, where we continuously keep an eye on the entire product life cycle and the service-relevant life phases of our machines and plants.

ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGIES

PROBAT's pioneering environmental technologies focus on saving energy and maximizing cleaning performance. We support our customers worldwide in designing sustainable production processes by providing solutions for exhaust air treatment and the utilization of excess heat from process exhaust air.

SMARTER SYSTEMS – BETTER COCOA PROCESSING WITH INTELLIGENT SENSOR TECHNOLOGY

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