Welcome: Yiwu Weihao Machinery Equipment Company
As a leading manufacturer of food-grade evaporation equipment, Yiwu Weihao Machinery Equipment Company specializes in designing and manufacturing **Scraper Thin Film Evaporators dedicated to Honey Concentration**—professional food-grade equipment tailored for the dehydration and concentration of raw honey. Combining advanced scraper thin film technology with low-temperature vacuum operation, this equipment perfectly addresses the unique challenges of honey concentration: high viscosity, strong thermal sensitivity, easy foaming, and tendency to caramelize. It achieves continuous, efficient concentration while fully preserving honey’s natural flavor, nutritional components (enzymes, vitamins, amino acids), and color, complying with global food safety standards (FDA, GMP), making it the core equipment for modern industrial honey processing lines.
Raw honey typically contains 17–25% water; our scraper thin film evaporator efficiently reduces water content to 17% or below (meets international honey quality standards) without damaging honey’s natural nutrients. Compared with traditional vacuum evaporation or heating concentration methods, our equipment avoids long-term high-temperature heating, caramelization, and nutrient loss, ensuring the final concentrated honey maintains its original taste and quality.
The Scraper Thin Film Evaporator for Honey Concentration realizes gentle, efficient concentration through a scientific workflow tailored to honey’s characteristics, fully complying with food-grade production requirements: 1. **Feed Pretreatment**: Raw honey is filtered to remove impurities (pollen, wax, solid particles) and preheated to 35–45°C to reduce viscosity, ensuring smooth feeding and avoiding blockage. 2. **Forced Thin Film Formation**: The pretreated raw honey is fed into the food-grade evaporator, where a high-speed rotating scraper system (made of food-grade materials) uniformly distributes the high-viscosity honey into an ultra-thin, turbulent liquid film on the inner wall of the heating cylinder. This mechanical film formation ensures uniform heat distribution and prevents local overheating. 3. **Low-Temperature Vacuum Concentration**: Operating under high vacuum (1–5 mbar) and controlled low temperature (40–60°C), water in the honey is rapidly vaporized. The extremely short material residence time (3–10 seconds) effectively prevents honey from caramelization, nutrient degradation, and flavor loss. 4. **Anti-Foaming & Vapor Separation**: The evaporator’s optimized internal structure and scraper design suppress foam generation (a common issue in honey concentration); a built-in food-grade demister separates water vapor from entrained honey droplets, ensuring product purity and avoiding waste. 5. **Concentrate Discharge & Recycling**: The concentrated honey (water content ≤17%) is continuously discharged from the bottom, while the separated water vapor is condensed and recycled for cleaning or other production links, realizing energy-saving and environmentally friendly operation.
Food-Grade Design: All wetted parts made of food-grade 316L stainless steel, no toxic substances, complying with FDA, GMP, and other global food safety standards; easy to clean and sterilize, meeting food processing hygiene requirements.
Honey-Specific Optimization: Tailored for high viscosity (up to 10,000 mPa·s) and thermal sensitivity of honey; the scraper system continuously renews the liquid film, preventing honey from adhering, coking, or caramelizing on the heating surface.
Nutrient & Flavor Preservation: Ultra-short residence time (3–10 seconds) + low-temperature vacuum operation (40–60°C), maximally retaining honey’s natural enzymes, vitamins, amino acids, and unique flavor, avoiding denaturation and discoloration.
Strong Anti-Foaming Performance: Special scraper structure and internal flow design effectively suppress foam during honey concentration, eliminating foam overflow and ensuring stable continuous operation, reducing product waste.
High Concentration Efficiency: Turbulent thin film formed by the scraper significantly improves heat transfer efficiency; evaporation intensity reaches 120–200 kg/m²·hr, realizing rapid dehydration and concentration, reducing production time.
Fully Automatic Control: PLC + touch screen control system, real-time monitoring of vacuum degree, temperature, feed rate, and honey water content; automatic adjustment of scraper speed and heating power, realizing unmanned operation and precise process control.
Customizable Configuration: Available in single-stage or double-stage concentration; customize evaporation area (0.3–30 ㎡), scraper type, and vacuum level according to daily honey output (300 kg–20 tons) and target water content (≤17%).
Our Scraper Thin Film Evaporators for Honey Concentration are widely used in food processing industries, providing core equipment for industrial honey processing, including but not limited to:
Industrial Honey Processing Plants: Large-scale continuous concentration of raw honey, reducing water content to meet international quality standards, suitable for bottled honey, honey products, and food additives.
Honey Product Manufacturers: Concentration of honey for the production of honey jam, honey candy, honey drinks, and other deep-processed products, ensuring product quality and shelf life.
Beekeeping Cooperatives & Farms: Medium-scale honey concentration, improving honey quality and reducing storage and transportation costs, enhancing market competitiveness.
Organic Food Production: Concentration of organic honey, maintaining its organic characteristics and natural nutrients, meeting organic food certification requirements.
Food R&D Institutions: Small and pilot-scale honey concentration for new honey product development, such as functional honey and honey-based health products.
We provide one-stop solutions for Scraper Thin Film Evaporators for Honey Concentration, from professional raw honey property analysis, food-grade process design, and custom manufacturing to on-site installation, commissioning, operator training, and long-term after-sales support. Our technical team has rich experience in food-grade evaporation and high-viscosity material concentration projects, and can tailor the most suitable evaporation system according to your raw honey characteristics, output, and quality requirements, helping you reduce production costs and improve product competitiveness.
Whether you need a small pilot evaporator for R&D or a large-scale industrial honey processing line, we can provide reliable, food-grade equipment and professional services to meet your honey concentration needs.
Contact us today to get a free raw honey concentration test, technical proposal, energy consumption calculation, and quotation for your Honey Concentration Scraper Thin Film Evaporator project.
